Claudia Seber is a Brazilian artist, art therapist, jeweler and occupational therapist. She was born in 1968 in São Paulo where she lived most of her childhood. From 7 to 9 years of age, the family moved inland, allowing her to be in close contact with nature and country life. From an engineer father and a speech therapist mother, her interest in art emerged early in childhood, when she and her sisters joined free art courses with ceramics. From the modeling of the pieces to the anxiety of burning them, the production process already aroused in Claudia some interest. Years passed and at the age of 18, faced with the difficult career choice, she chose Occupational Therapy as a way to blend Art with people. After graduating, she spent some time in London where she deepened and expanded her contact with the world of the Arts, visiting museums, galleries, exhibitions, but above all expanding and nurturing her personal experiences. Returned to Brazil, already in the role of Street Educator with underprivileged minors by the Children's Secretariat, she used Art as the main means of approaching children. This experience brought the ideals of youth closer to professional activity. Married and with two daughters, Claudia entered in a course of jewelry by hobby, happening to dedicate herself entirely to its in a short time. The constant study and the intense experience in the workshop gave her invitations to teach jewelry classes. At the same time she dedicated herself to the creation and production of jewelery, as well as the development of gifts and collections for others.
"ART IS TO DO ANYTHING OF SOMETHING"
"In a way the artistic formation is something global in spite of the specific technique and the art to which we dedicate ourselves. One must be curious and open to the material world and the possibilities available. Producing art requires persistence, study, training, observation, reading, knowledge and reverence. "
"At the end of each production there arises a mixed mission fulfilled mixed to the regret of the end. This feeling is as intense as the involvement and concept evoked in sculpture. "
"An accomplished work generates a feeling of power and truth that emanates from Art when it is realized with Soul and full intentions."
Understanding Art as a channel of creation and self-knowledge was the starting point for the artist to begin her graduate studies in Art Therapy and Analytical Psychology. Restructured personally and professionally fueled the desire to broaden her experience and realize a Creative Workshop project.
The presence in several exhibitions in São Paulo and finalist in her first contest of Art Design, Reflection Art Today in 2017, fueled the taste for the study, the research of new materials, but above all the inspiration for new artistic productions.
The sculptures came with the idea of mixing the refuse of the jewelry with different materials, such as wood, glass, acrylic, in an aesthetic and artistic composition expressive of a concept of material resignification. All kinds of metals found in buckets and through the city streets thickened the list of materials used in the sculptures. The creative process of the artist Claudia Seber comes from several channels, either in the contemplation of the material herself that evokes autonomous ideas, or in the aesthetic representation of archetypal images common to the imagination of all human beings. Composing a sculpture that expresses a prior concept requires knowledge in the handling of different materials that the artist uses in her compositions. Naming the sculptures reinforces the concept attributed to her. The beauty for Claudia is in harmoniously composing the different and unusual materials used. The challenge is also to handle them technically and with knowledge concerning them. By linking quality, beauty, concept and symbolic image, each creation is the material and emotional rescue of the youthful dream of redeeming and elevating Art to the deeper function of interiorization and contemplation of human emotions.
"Expressing myself and living the Art brought me back home."
"I had all my parents' support in everything I wanted to do in my life. However the encounter with Art is something very deep and personal that is independent of the aesthetic production that at first attracts the attention of the majority of the parents. We need personal experience and maturity to find Art as human achievement and contribution. "