Iris Vargas

From the years 1988 the stone carving began and in the 90 the marble with movement and contrast. My maininspiration is the female figure. In each work, beauty, elegance, sensuality, delicacy and freedom stand out. Passion, complicity and respect for the material have led me to treat marble as a light material with the movement that would have a fabric of a beautiful and fine haute couture dress, adding the elegant bearing of a delicate model. This beautiful work was what led me to work with one of the most iconic figures in French haute couture, Madame CARVEN. This constant search to give shape to the stone has given rise to “Los Mármoles Salvajes" technique that consists of placing one rock on top of the other in contrast, joined by a metallic shaft system, which allows a circulatory movement of the piece until its initial shape multiplies to infinity.

Thanks to this great technical contribution, she was part since 1999, in the dictionary ´´Le Benezit´.

Currently I have launched to the conquest of a new material the Copper leaf in the forms of the ample clothes of the dresses of the famous Meninas de Velásquez.

I live and work in the Paris Region. Visits of my individual or small group workshop are possible through m...

Studies of Anthropology and Plastic Arts. Cristóbal National School of Plastic Art Rojas in Caracas
Central University of Venezuela.
School of Sociology and Anthropology
National School of Fine Arts of Paris
Studies of restoration of historical monuments in Paris
Restoration Facades, Louvre Museum building, the National Archives and the Invalid

Autumn Salon on the Champs-Élysées
XI’an in China
Carrousel de Louvre, Sculpture Biennale Lyon France,
Galerie SH Heidelberg Germany
More than 500 group and private exhibitions in the last 40 years

Awards
André Derain / Iris Vargas gallery du Chéne. Lausanne Suisse
Homeneje to Nature in the Luxembourg Park gardens in Paris
Tois de La Grade Arche de La Défensa. Paris
Silver medal. Courage to Progress Society by Yves Copins in The Senate. Paris
Monaco-Monte Carlo International Salon Carolina de Monaco
TV Tele- morning presentation. 50 years of Haute Couture Madame CARVEN in my workshop
Fall Show 2019 at XI’an in China
Sculpture Prize 2016 Ville de Charenton, France
Sculpture Award 2017 Art, Sciences y Letters .Paris
2018 Ville de Chaville sculpture award