LILIA A. vERGA TABOADA
ARCHITECT | ARTIST
I was born on May 1, 1954, and I spent my first years in the neighborhoods of Belgrano and Colegiales in the city of Buenos Aires. I did primary school at the Goethe Schule despite not having German roots. As a jeweler, draftsman, and designer, my father guided me in my first steps. My mother, a pianist, gave me the music.
In high school, at the National School of Buenos Aires, I began to appreciate the history of art, architecture, and drawing. I learned visual techniques with Professor Helios Gagliardi, appreciations that lasted in my life. The years in my architecture career at the University of Buenos Aires, the life experiences, and traveling were incentives and values to try to understand the environment: being and nature. The technique and the architecture give the concrete form and aesthetic value. I believe that a sensitive look is essential for knowing the environment, landscape, and human behavior.
As an architect, I worked independently in Buenos Aires and Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. I am interested in the topic of Heritage and Preservation; that is how I got to know the historic neighborhood and urban landscape of Colonia, where I made several interventions both in the city and in rural areas.
In 2014, I discovered the “Workshop of the Psychology of Form” led by the painter Oscar Cesar Mara. There, I started to reveal my own forms and expressiveness, following an inner search. Exterior landscapes of travel, fields, and nature were concentrated and gave way to interior expressions, revealing unknown spaces. The conventional straight lines vanished with the first encounters with the canvas.
My life companion Daniel, my daughters Marina and Lucila, and my dog Manolo are also reflected in my works, without being seen, but accompanying each brushstroke and emotion.
Committed with the constant search of astonishment, with the actions that awake and enlighten the feelings, I continue with the following search… So, until the next encounter.