paintings projects Body Livro Pintura Corporal P aintings P ortraits M andalas Arte Urbana Nina Benchimol is a visual artist and performer, born in 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lives and works as a freelancer. Her background has been shaped by a production of graphic compositions applied to several media, and inspired by figurative repertoires and geometric patterns of traditional cultures. Her activities include body expressions from photographic studies in partnership with other artists, which result in creative and thematic images. Focusing on an articulation between the creative process of fine arts and sensory experiences, since 2014, she has been dedicating to individual body painting performances followed by photographic records in Parque Lage Botanical Gardens, in Rio de Janeiro. In this scope, she also held body painting workshops for various audiences, such as, the International Alternative Culture Festival (2014) in Alto Paraíso city, Chapada dos Veadeiros, state of Goiás; InVentos Project (2015), at Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro; Projeto Periférico (2015) promoted by SESC Cultural School Space, Rio de Janeiro; II Serra Folk Festival (2018), in Cachoeiras de Macacu, state of Rio de Janeiro; and the Tupiniquim Festival (2018), promoted by Casa Borbulhante Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro. She is currently developing printmaking projects, with emphasis on research involving the necessary articulations between aesthetics and the concept of sustainability related to the productive processes of handmade fashion. ​ ​ ​

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Body painting Individual experiences of body painting in the natural environment of the Parque Lage and Parque Guinle forest. ​ Sensory dynamics in which the participant submits his/her body to a work of art, in a state of experimental performance that results in a series of photographs and audiovisual pills. The painting is abstract and happens intuitively. From certain information passed at the beginning of the session during a conversation, the artist makes the brushstrokes bringing a playful and unique moment of body expressiveness to those who experience the session. Parque Lage - Botanical Garden - RJ Guinle Park - Laranjeiras - RJ

Canvas Layered patterns in square and rectangular format. Organicity in brush stroke movements and color overlapping. Acrylic without canvas - 20 x 20 cm Acrylic without canvas - 9.5 x 14.5 cm

Nina Benchimol is a Brazilian artist, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, who has lived since she was a little girl in the Santa Teresa neighborhood and is 30 years old. The artist says that a first "watershed" in her personality was her contact with the Maracatu rhythm, when she danced and played with the groups Rio Maracatu, Maracutaia and Tambores de Olokun. It was during this period that Nina attended numerous events and manifestations of Pernambuco's regional culture, identified with the dances and became a more communicative and sociable person. Nina's biggest passion is painting. He awakened the skill with body painting sessions in people in the forest of Parque Lage. There were several individual meetings involving brushstrokes, performances and photographs between 2015 and 2018. And then he began to paint and explore other media. The artist says it was essential to have painted the bodies of so many people and feels that all this has strengthened her inside. The artist claims that brushstrokes and colors dominate her and her paintings are always guided by intuition, without sketches and in a very accidental and spontaneous way. He is enchanted by asymmetrical patterns, the mixtures of colors, tones on tones, textures and primal lines. His visual inspiration is tapestries, especially oriental ones. He currently dedicates part of his time to research on the history of art and Oriental Fashion. He began studies on Stamping and Fashion Design at the European Institute of Design (IED - RJ) and will develop a relationship between his painting and artisanal fashion, in a way that also brings influences of oriental elements and upcycling characteristics. She loves to dress up, her wardrobe is always diverse and with clothes that she claims are “peacock style”. She likes to feel beautiful, to be photographed and has become a more uninhibited person. He has accumulated experiences of artistic co-creation with photography partners over the years, whose proposal was to pose and express himself in front of the camera in front of an established theme. Nina's creative energy and restlessness is latent and full of color. Stubborn by nature and enchanted by the unfolding of beauty and immersion in her works, she praises that, in contact with the Portuguese publisher Ases da Literatura, she will launch her first picture book in 2022 and claims to be fulfilling one of her biggest dreams. She is very excited about what is to come… and hopes that she will be able to… more and more… fulfill more and more dreams.

Portraits The artist and her body expression and performance - series of photos Roosevelt Nina - 2013

MANDALAS Patterning in a circular shape. Strokes that are repeated without symmetrical sharpness. - Mixed techniques on paper and MDF - To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

Portais das estações Editora Ases da Literatura - 2023 The order of brushstrokes, the movements, and the colors transcends time and delves into the pleasure of finding the Arts by experiencing Painting. In this publication, the author Nina Benchimol, 30 years old and a "Carioca" from Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, presents her art, and invites us to dive into her visual universe, among her brushstrokes that travel freely in a cultural amalgam exposed in symbols and abstract graphics. In a significant way, it provides a therapeutic exercise influenced by Orientalism flowing naturally between graphic images of Islamic and Marajoara art. Organized into four chapters, Portals of the Seasons is represented by a series of paintings. ​ By inserting the Color Light to refinish the luminescence and its nuances in the mixture created by the pigments in arbitrary brushstrokes, the methods of creating mandalas and theis spontaneous movements lead us to the artist in her time and place, her way of illustrating life, and the search process related with her own identity through the relationship with Colors in Motion. ​ She exposes her pleasure with the process of production that brings a range of benefits related to creativity, emotional health, and spirituality. ( by Jimy Lage, Art instructor ) Autumn Winter Spring Summer

Dream Personas Fantastic characters emerging from a dreamlike ambiance. - Markers without paper - 14 x 21 cm

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