Bárbara Shunyí
Bárbara Shunyí was born in 1966 in Cádiz, Spain.
It was in Seville where she studied Fine Arts at the University. At the end of the eighties she moved to Berlin. Later, at the beginning of this century, she moved to Edinburgh to join the Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop and to extend his studies at Grafisk Eksperimentarium. Copenhagen. Denmark.
Shunyí has exhibited in galleries around the world. Tireless traveler, she was caught by the art and traditions of the East a long time ago. In 2007 she was living in Beijing, at the NYARTSBeijing residence in New York, invited by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.
From Beijing, Barbara Shunyí brought her suitcase full of experiences and a notebook full of notes. As a result, in 2008 she received the Prize for Plastic Arts for her work inspired by the East. The illustrated gathering of Madrid.
The work of this author places us in the great artistic approaches that the graphic work provides and that she develops with all the rigor and enthusiasm that this artistic modality demands. The etchings appears to us in varied techniques where the oriental and the western juxtapose their frontiers in an exercise of wise references.
Her works are made in non-toxic contemporary etching, technique in which she is an expert.
Currently, Bárbara Shunyí lives and works between Madrid and Cádiz. Spain
Sire,
Ésta que viene es Bárbara Shunyí.
Un respeto. Y una distancia.
Sabe quién es, sabe lo que hace y por qué lo hace.
Y sabe hacerlo.
Cuentan que hace tiempo viajó más allá de la niebla del mar.
Anduvo despacio por aquellos asombros y al volver traía palabras distintas y vientos
de varias clases.
Y también un paquete con algunas melancolías y tristezas que pesaban demasiado.
Pero cuando cruza aquel pasillo en sombra entra en su famoso lugar y allí, sin prisa
y en silencio, hace la magia imponente de ir convirtiendo todos los ruidos en poesía.
Yo lo he visto.
Bárbara Shunyí, como los gatos, sabe cosas que el resto de los seres humanos no
sabemos.
Pero no las quiere contar todas.
Para que sigamos pasmados.
Como ahora.
Miguel Rellán,
Actor y coleccionista de arte.