Biography and Work Philosophy

Claudine Varesi grew up between Mexico, Peru and Switzerland. She studied

art at the Kunstgewerbeschule ZH (CH) and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica

in Lima (Peru). She was member of the Maria Retivoff Modern Dance Group,

studied Cinematography with the Peruvian film director Armando Robles Godoy,

as well as voice training, psychology, and philosophy.

After several years working for publicity agencies as a free-lance designer, she

opened her own studio for illustration, design, and gives creativity workshops.

Always at the search of new forms of creative expression, she tries to bring this

into her painting. She sees the possibility, as well as the challenge to

work with symbols, and the effects of color to enhance the message of an artwork.

The quest for a meaning beyond esthetic expression brings the sense of unity she

is searching. Her oil, acrylic, and silk paintings are an intention to formulate the

relationship of mankind being the token between the micro and the macro-cosmos.

In 1995 one of her paintings was selected as part of the Ars ad Astra

exhibition on Mir space station in Earth orbit. Space interests her profoundly, and she sees in it a

perfect environment for visionary artwork. Space Art represents for her a chance

to formulate possibilities that could indicate paths to new discoveries. Space

artists are the visionary pioneers of our time.

Space art is idicative of possible technological development; however, deeper

meaning of preserving earth, and human related knowledge are an essential element in

the cultural dimension of space exploration.

Her work tries to express the importance of life in this whole process.