Artist Biography
Gerardo Bravo was inspired by his mother when he entered the arts and decided to pursue art studies at the National School of Visual Arts of the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City.
Since the early beginnings as an artist, he has sought to poetically merge the sacred and profane nurturing a transcendent and mystical hope inspired by Mexico’s culture rooted in deeply meaningful metaphysical concepts dating back to the pre-Hispanic period.
In his early stages, his exhibition in 1996 called ``Voices of the Spirit” pictorial objectivism stood at the center of his artwork. During the 2000s his art evolved into Abstraction with a new methodology he calls “calligraphic privateness”. His visual language progressively redefines a message of a deep poetic significance teeming with carefully refined forms combined with a stern simplicity characteristic for his work. The artist transforms common events into a luminous body of profound life. In 2005 reflecting on the fragility and vulnerability of civilization the artist participated in “The Bird Flu Project” with the World Bank. He created 20 oil paintings available as images for use in campaigns aiming to educate the public about the bird flu and disease prevention.
In 2006 after his mother’s passing, and the human rights abuses committed against land defenders occurred in “San Salvador Atenco Mexico”, he was inspired to start a new project called Offerings to my Mother as a platform to talk about the destruction of nature and human rights abuses, especially the femicides in Mexico and in patriarchal societies in general.
With the disappearances that occurred in Mexico in 2014 of the 43 students in Iguala Guerrero Mexico, he started a new project called Empty Urns incorporating ceramics as mementos to honor those who had been disappeared by the forces of power and authoritarian governments around the world.
His work has been displayed at various national and international exhibitions, and it is part of both public and private collections. He has designed and built a house featured in Architectural Digest magazine in 2006 where he combined the harmony of classic architecture with the stylization of modern art.
His works include paintings, installations, and ceramics.