GARDANI ORIGINAL OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS "BOWL OF APPLES" Artwork- Excellent Condition Image Size: 12" x 12" GARDANI Artist's Statement: ?My art is a celebration of beauty in the SIMPLE Things. Celebrate the harmony in slow-motion of the beauty and perfection of a women figure. ?That significant emotion in my conscious mind take place while materialization of that feeling through any medium in my artwork?. EDUCATION Primarily self taught Artist. Residency, Florence- Italy The Art School Work, Miami, Fl. Painting / Sculpture Center for the Media Arts, NY, NY. Direction - Production of Movies TV. University Tecnologica Equinoccial, Quito, Ecuador-Publicity University Central, Quito, Ecuador ? Architecture Born in Quito-Ecuador. - U.S.A. Citizen Gardani's childhood was spent in his hometown. Before he graduated from High School, his gypsy spirit and love for adventure took him every summer to travel to neighborhood countries. He studied at different Universities, Architecture and Publicity. Always having been drawn to the world of Arts and being independent. Gardani started working and experimenting with different materials and techniques, on his Paintings and Sculptures. Entirely self-taught, he had his first solo exhibition in his native, Quito, (1987). It's when he realized, that is what he wants to do for the rest of his life. He knows to fulfill that dream he had to leave his problematic political country. He traveled to Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, until finally he ended up in the U.S. in 1989. He lived in California, Chicago, New York and Miami and still living between the last two cities. He had continued traveling to Brazil, England, Italy, France, China, Honduras, Puerto Rico? in order to visit the major Art Museums. He believes that is the best school to learn the higher expressions of Art. Gardani, still remains true to his initial spirit of enjoying Art in the Magic Realism form, which he has been practicing for more than twenty years. Even though some of his paintings come from his mind; he prefers to work with models. Gardani has the ability to present works of allegory, still-life, fruit, horses, pets, contemporary abstracts and his well known figurative paintings. The artwork of this Artist has been shown in Galleries in the United States Central and South America. His artworks are in Prestigious Collections around the world. He has been commissioned for many private collectors. As a Latino Artist of Spanish Heritage, he reflects in his Paintings the techniques from the old masters and the magic of all the places he has lived with the wide variety of cultures he's experienced. 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