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5/4/07

Yvonne Mora's Solo Exhibition in Alianza Francesa. Lima, Peru.

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For quite a long time, I have been thinking on the idea of writing some words to describe my feelings about the artwork exhibited by the Peruvian Artist Yvonne Mora. Throughout her work, Yvonne Mora has carefully selected her subjects delicately placing on canvas, firm brushstrokes and rapid variations of light that bring out emotions from the spectator.

Yvonne has been very prolific producing high quality paintings. Since her early production of artwork based on simple daily live activities such as paintings depicting young women cleaning clothes in the river, the ballerinas series, and finally the band of jazz musicians series, Yvonne Mora has explored these subjects with great awareness of their significance. In the series of ballerina’s paintings, each one is depicted with vivid brush strokes, each possesses an ineffable delicacy, and each related to the others in a kind of organic interdependence that calls to mind the completeness of a living being. The ballerina moves in a well balanced gravity. Space and time are fragmented and folded with quick brush stroke and pleasant interconnection of light and shadows. Yvonne’s artwork evokes tremendous movement and subtle heat instigated by delicate sensual pleasure irradiated by the careful depiction of human beings.

Yvonne Mora’s painting is art to be looked at and live with beyond our time.

Camilo Rodriguez

Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA

December 14, 2006

Dear Yvonne,

I thank you for the gift of your work in my home.  San Francisco’s Chinatown is one of my most treasured places in the world, along with the majestic Pacific Northwest, the culture and history of Firenza, the relaxed sophistication of Barcelona, the rugged Baja California peninsula, the breathtaking splendor of the Alps, and the sleepy, fog-filled valley where I used to live in Germany.

When I was a child we didn't travel much as a family—but because we had several relatives and friends in San Francisco and Oakland, we would pile in the car a few times each year for the two-hour drive to the bay area.  Most trips included partaking in an intimate family meal or a large banquet in Chinatown with endless browsing in the small shops full of everything from inexpensive trinkets to authentic Cantonese goods.  I remember as a young girl how exciting it was and how the loudness was somehow safe and familiar.  Here, I could be alive and gleefully express my joy, as any sound that I generated was overpowered easily by the symphony of noises already there!

Chinatown is a place of great contradiction.  Even as the night is brightly colored by store lights and neon signs, there are mysteries, dark secrets, and untold stories that will never be known.  I intrinsically knew this, even in my youth, but I was never fearful there and was always happy to see the next marvelous thing that waited around the corner.  As an adult, I am still drawn there year after year and delighted as ever to make new discoveries and be a welcome guest in that place.

I took a deep and quiet breath when I first saw your painting and I knew exactly where this place was before I read the title.  I was transported back there to the streets in Chinatown and to volumes of memories from my childhood and beyond.  Your painting captured the crowded streets, the vibrancy of that place at night, and the sameness that tightly unites the community but somehow allows and honors the differences, even permitting strangers to play a role in the living that happens there.  All the stories, still untold—that small place teeming with life, far greater than the sum of its parts. 

Your work resides in perfect harmony in my home on a stylistic, cultural, and even emotional level.  Rising out of my own history and the handsome simplicity of my living space, I now have a colorful treasure in your Chinatown, a place that I can revisit every day. 

With deep appreciation,

Rachelle

Rachelle Fong
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA