Jean Girigori, a biographical note.

Jean Girigori is with her forty two years a very young artist although she has produced an impressive amount of paintings. She is a Caribbean person by birth and a Curacaon artist by choice. One can best typify her as an autobiographical expressionist artist, that uses images and colors to paint the story of her Caribbean youth and pain, testifying about her sufferings while at the same time healing herself from that past to find new paths for herself and her hurting and beloved Caribbean community...Click here to read more.

Insignias Of Power: The Symbolic And Ritual Statute Of The Paintings Of Jean Girigori

It is not possible to establish a theoretical construct on the pictorial production of the Curacaoan artist Jean Girigori, if one doesn’t explore the dramatic historical and social sources of its magical and fantastic origin, so close to the theoretical proposals of Alejo Carpentier on the dominance of magical realism as aesthetic substratum of Caribbean art; which related to his artistic and personal life, may well seem to be fantastic fragments of the text of a novel and not segments of a latent personal, emotional, and spiritual reality which sketched the course that would guide her along the paths of a great artist who walks today as a witness to the most living aesthetic events of modern and contemporary art in Latin America and the Caribbean...Click here to read more

Girigori: The Magical Painter of the Magic Arc

Since the beginning of time, the Antillean tropics have been a source of amazement, of bewilderment, of passion and delight. These islands are the facets of a magnet that for centuries have attracted Arawak inhabitants and the myriads that have arrived from the Old World. Christopher Columbus in the journal of his maiden voyage writes reflectively that, for all of the beauty, abundance, and the luxuriant splendor of the landscape in these first-discovered lands, paradise must have existed here...Click here to read more