Gloria Li Mir, a wonderful artist and friend, left this world on February the 15th 2025. To recall her and her oeuvre, we republish our very first Artwork of the Month from February 2015.
“Vers le ciel” (To the sky)
Gloria Li Mir
1981
80 cm x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas strengthened and worked
The light is one of the main concerns in the work of Gloria Li Mir. Painted mostly in white, the canvas is not only support for her pictures but is the carrier material of the light. White as colour gives the light all its possibilities of reflexion. Her white monochrome series are painted on strengthened canvas, often with movable elements. Hence, the canvas can catch the continual changing qualities of the illumination. For the same purpose Gloria worked forms out of the canvas to create a relief.
In our example “Vers le ciel” we have both: besides the white canvas with horizontal line in light grey, there is a movable square and outworked pebbles. It may be somehow a landscape, but it is as well an abstract painting, where the incoming light is reflected. The image changes all the time, depending on the angle and intensity of the incident illumination.
Gloria Li Mir
Born in Lima, Peru, in 1943 († February 2025), Gloria studied Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, USA, and drawing (studio work) at the University of Stanford in California, USA. Until 1975 she lived and worked in Guatemala-City, and then in the region of Nice, France. From 1993 to 1998 she travelled and worked in the United States and in Guatemala. In 1998, Gloria returned to Nice. Since 1999 lived and worked in Vallauris, France.