Press extracts
Graciela, grew up in Mexico and because of love for Hamburg ”emigrated“, is a true cosmopolitan. She loves beside her two ”hometowns“ Mexico and Hamburg as California, Spain and Portugal very much.
Since it is not surprising that their exhibits were shown around the world and are in Paris, Lisbon, Palm Beach and New York, Liverpool, Rome, Stockholm, Basel, Mexico, Hamburg and Berlin, thousands of enthusiastic visitors.
The artist loves floral motifs and is famous for its cheerful, large tulip pictures. Graciela But not only paints in acrylic or oil, she also works with textiles and design expressive, exotic wall hangings and wall reliefs made of velvet, lace and silk.
For her art, she has been honored many times: She was winner of the IGA Hamburg 1973, received the Golden Needle of the tapestry in Lausanne, and also expressed as a decorator of the Hamburg PRESSEBALL speak (under then-chairman Helmut Schmidt) on its own.
The warm-hearted artist - which is known to insiders, not only for their art, but also for their legendary guacamole (with whom she pampers her guests like) - is now in the gallery in the Sierichstraße 118 works from its permanent, including surely some their wonderful tulips pictures ...
She paints from the heart. Feelings flow in form and colour from the brush on the canvas. At times wild and explosive in vivid reds and yellows. At times subdued, almost filigree work, in cool blue-grey tones. The Mexican artist Graciela Heyn, who lives in Hamburg, is sensual and unpredictable. A sea of tulips, a maze of primeval shapes, incandescent tropical sunsets or glittering Nothern nights in blues and blacks all find a way into her paintings. Graciela works in broad sweeps of acrylic and oil colour, knows the secret of delicate touches of aquarelle, and embarks on experiments of collage.
Heavy brocade, filigree lace, flowing satin, delicate tulle and breathtaking silk embroidery are given new life in the hands of Graciela Heyn. The Mexicon-born artist, living in Hamburg, saves precious textiles – often pieces worthy of a museum – from falling victim to moths and decay. Revived and given new shape, fabrics of the most diverse material, age and origin are rearranged to form fantastic textile compositions. Blossoms of Chinese knotembroidery are joined with Brazilian ribbons made from the wings of the golden beetle and ornaments out of Russian brocade to create figures of unreal underwater worlds or paradisical vegetation and presents these on overdimensional topestry. Priceless jewels!
For the love and passion she has remained.
Out of love and passion, she began to paint.
For the love and passion she paints today.
