BURBRIDGE
MINIATURE MARIONETTES
UNIQUE PIECES MODELLED IN PASTE and PAINTED by hand.
Measures oscillate between the 5, 5" and 8, 6".
Viviana Burbridge was born in Lobos, Argentina . It learned to draw with his father - great self-taught caricaturist- and after graduating in The University as Psychologist began to explore in the world of the fines arts. It studied investigation of alternatives techniques in arts with the teacher Antonio Blagonic and painting with the teacher Antonio Chiavetti, stage scene in the University Of the Salvador and the School of Saulo Benavente and Gastón Breyer, and Cinematographic and TV Direction.
In the 80' years it made sculptural silver sterling, and designed and modelled in wax a jewel collection for a famous Buenos Aires’s jewelry shop. It began to make marionettes investigating the human figure and its expression through the gesture, the position and the movement from the point of view of the visual image.
At the moment it makes unique pieces whose measures oscillate between the 5, 5" and 8, 6". It begins modelling the head, it looks for in the paste to model that she herself prepares - according to old European formulas that his Blagonic teacher taught to him -- the hidden character of each personage, it is opened to the dialogue without words - visual, tactile, sensible - and translates the message in forms and colours, in hats and clothes that the same personage is indicating:
"Once begun the game, it is only question to unravel watching, feeling in my fingers that behind each piece of mass something are more, the soul of a marionette that does not need threads, nor a voice lent and other people's, because it speaks by itself, through its image".
The universe of its miniatures - pertaining to caricature, theatricals, friskies -is populated with soldiers of all times, dancers, Argentine field "gauchos", Buenosairean "tangueros", personages of the Art Comedy, del Venetian Carnival, musicians and clownish farcical.