With great joy, we witnessed the appearance in Venezuela’s art scene of the promising novel artist Rocio Elena Magasrevy. We had the opportunity to appreciate 18 representative pieces of her work at the Art Exhibition “Encuentro” that opened on September 29th, 2005 at Galeria Spativm, in Caracas, Venezuela.
The first impression of her paintings is given through the impact of light and color that emanates from her work. Rocio uses pure, strong, vibrant colors. Her whites are dazzling, her blues are intense, and her reds are fire. They are not dark; on the contrary, they have the luminosity of the day at the sun’s zenith.

Going from the color impact to the theme, we found flowers in an outstanding range, done with very defined lines and strokes with a style that suggests aspects of a figurative realism, plus the idealization and static representation that comes from Rocio’s particular perception and artistic expression. Her work is a song to life, to fecundity, and to creativity, which is represented on each of her paintings: incipient buds, or promises that seem to appear, or on the full-blossomed flower at its plenitude that has become a reality.

She represents nature on her ultimate product, the flower, in different varieties and in different stages of development that goes parallel with the process of life and the development of human creations.

We salute with great pleasure the arrival of this young plastic artist to the contemporary Venezuelan artistic scene. We already know that her art will be a significant contribution to the rich tradition of excellent painters that fills the history of artistic painting in Venezuela.

Rocio Núñez