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Artist Statement:
When you work in differents
diciplines in art it´s hard to
exempt the temptation of
connect them, I NEED to work
with text, visual and music at
the same time with the same
issue.
I read practically all the
time since I was 4 years old.
I immediately “devoured” ...
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Artist Reviews:
Requiem for a globetrotter –
an 86 year journey
What is Life? Can an artist
have the answer to this
question?
How does he find in his own
life the way to satisfy this
curiosity?
Is it a curiosity? Is it not a
necessity?
Many questions; all together
they form a ...
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Collections:
National Academy of Graphic
Arts, Russia
DIN A4 Collection,
Holland-Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Cuenca, Ecuador
Watercolor Museum, Estado de
Mexico
Cultural Institution of Baja
California
Also in numerous private
collections throughout Baja
California, California, USA,
Spain and Mexico City
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Laura Castanedo:
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ACTUAL PROJECTS
•Work as Internacional Artistic Secretary for Ars Latina
VISUAL ARTS
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS - Selection –
2006 “Requiem para un trotamundos – 86 años de viaje” (“Requiem for a globetrotter – an 86 year journey”), Antichi Forni Gallery, Macerata, Italy
“Un deseo de formas y límites nos gana”, Sótano de Rita Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California Mexico
2005 “El Mundo Iluminado – acotaciones para El Sueño de Sor Juana” ("The Illuminated World. Landmarks for El Sueño (The Dream) by Sor Juana"), The National Academy Gallery of Fine Arts "San Alejandro", Havana, Cuba
“Requiem para un trotamundos – 86 años de viaje” (“Requiem for a globetrotter – an 86 year journey”), FORDES Gallery, Havana, Cuba
“Canto a mi mismo” (“Song of myself”), Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, Netherlands
2004 “De fugas y temperancias” (“On Fugues and Temperantes”), Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Baja California
2002 “Interiores” - obra tridimensional (“Insides” – 3D work -), Benjamín Serrano Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California
“Para Lorca - Estimulo y fiesta” (“For Lorca - Stimulus and Celebration”), Ex Monasterio del Desierto de los Leones. Cuajimalpa, DF
“De amor y de discreción” (“About Love and Discretion”), Museo de la Acuarela del Estado de México and online exhibition at www.artte.com
2001 “Para Lorca - Poeta en Nueva York ” (“For Lorca - Poet in New York”), Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Veracruz, Museo de Arte de Orizaba, Sala Oriente del IVEC, Veracruz and online exhibition at www.artte.com
“Free way / Camino libre”, with Sebastián Beltrán and Ben Guttin, Multiforo del ICBC, Tijuana, Baja California
2001-1999 “Para Lorca” (“For Lorca”), City Gallery, Mexicali, B. C., Multiforo del ICBC, Tijuana, Baja California, Galería Espacio Norte CEU, Tecate, Baja California and La Esquina de Bodegas, Ensenada, Baja California
1997 “Caricias II” (“Caress II”), State Theater, Mexicali, Baja California
“En el tiempo” (“In Time”), Espacio Norte Gallery, CEU, Tecate, Baja California
“Templos” (“Temples”), Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Baja California
1996 “Caricias” (“Caress”), City Gallery, Tecate, Baja California
1996-1995 “Homenaje a Charles Bukowski” I, y II (“Homage to Charles Bukowsky” I and II), itinerant in the state of Baja California
1994-1993 ”Mujeres y Lunas” I y II (“Women and Moons” I and II) Itinerant in the state of Baja California
COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS - selection-
2007 “Ars Latina Camina” Centro Municipal de Cultura Y Centro Cultural Provincial de las Aulas, Castellón, España
“State Of The Art” Maastricht Art Treaty, Limburglaan, Netherlands
“Tapete 2.1” Centro Estatal de las Artes Mexicali, Baja California, México
“Ars Latina 2007”, Centro Estatal de las Artes Mexicali, Baja California, México
“(id) art- fest_07” Museo Internazinale Di Arte Contemporanea, Belforte Del Chienti, Italia.
“Entijuanarte”, “Memorabilia” Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Baja California, México
“Transmissions”, Video "MASCARA" L5 Project 2007, GPSA, Global Position in Art, collaboration with Sergio Toledo, Roermond, Netherlands
2006 “Sirenas para Daniela. En memoria”, Sótano de Rita Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California Mexico
“Ars Latina 2006“, Antichi Forni Gallery, Macerata, Italy
“Entijuanarte“, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Baja California, Mexico
“Tapete 02”, Sala de Arte in Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California
“Des-fase lunar“, La Casa Azul de Xochimilco, México City
“2006 World Calligraphy Festival”, Seoul, South Korea
“5th Lessedra World Art Print Annual”, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects Sophia, Bulgaria
“Diálogos”, in Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología “Víctor Bravo Ahuja” of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in México City
“La Exposición”, sala COAAT in Málaga, Spain
“Málaga Invita”, in Sala “La muralla” - Universidad de Málaga, Spain
DIN A4 Project Exhibition in Galería El Gabinete de Hyde, Málaga, Spain
2005 Internationale Ateliertagen Wipperfürth Gummersbach, Köln, Wipperfürth Kreuzberg, Germany
Global Art Movement – Online exhibition: http://www.medialworks.com
World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk.-do, South Korea
“After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries”, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England
Upstream People Gallery – Online exhibition:http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com
“Homage to Laura Castanedo”, Jadite Galleries, New York, USA
“Arad International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arad, Romania
“Hong Kong Artists Biennale 2005 - Moonstruck“
“Ars Latina”, San Severino Marche, Italy
“Analogías de calor y línea”, Opening of Centro Estatal de las Artes, Mexicali, Baja California
“Unclaimed luggage”, 125th Anniversary of Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Spain.
"Originales Solidarios", L'Institut d'art hispanic, BCN /Anagma Gallery, Madrid / Fira Int. D'Art de Catalunya, Girona
First exhibition of the DIN A4 project in Mexico (Organized by Laura Castanedo, Ingrid Rosas and Ernst Kraft), Reina Sofía Gallery, Alzheimer Foundation in Leon Guanajuato, Mexico
2004 “Ars Latina”, Porto Recanati, Italy
“Nueve mujeres artistas, un libro de arte” (“Nine women artists, a book of art”), El Aghora, Tijuana, Baja California
“Arad Biennial’s International Committee Exhibition), Romania
“The day of the dead”, Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA
“Keller Fest - Two energies”, San Francisco, CA, USA
“Ventipertrenta 04”, TERRA DELL´ARTE PRIZE (for high artist profile)
“The International Biennale of Graphics - White Inter Nights -“ BIN 2004, Manech Palace, San Petersburg, Russia. MEDAL OF HONOR
Travelling exhibition of Mexican Artists 4th Edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence 2003), Mexico City
“Originales solidarios”, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
“The Latin American Art Exhibition, Masters of the Imagination”, Agora Gallery, New York
“Lofting”, Cortijo Miraflores Museum, Marbella, Spain
2003 “Bienale Internazionale dell´Arte Contemporanea”, Florence, Italy
“Figurative abstractions”, Agora Gallery, Soho, New York.
“Imagen del hechizo” (“Spell Image”), Sor Juana Cultural Center, Nepantla, Estado de Mexico
2002 “Magna exposición” (“Great exhibition”), Modern Art Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador
“Sol de México” (“Sun of Mexico”), Modern Art Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador.
”Magna exposición pictórica” (“Great Pictorial Exhibition”), El Paso, Texas.
2001 “The American figurization”, Menache Gallery, DF and Palermo, Italy
“La huella del caimán” (“The caiman’s footprint”), Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Baja California
“Los talleristas” (“The workshopers”), Espacio Norte Gallery CEU, Tecate, Baja California
“OE, Colectiva de expedición” (“OE, Collective expedition”), Online exhibition: www.artte.com
2000 “Ensamble con Carlos Zerpa” (Ensamble with Carlos Zerpa), City Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California
“El eterno femenino” (“The eternal feminine”), Casa de la Cultura Tijuana, Baja California
“Arte-Informa” (“Informing art”), Frontera newspaper, Tijuana, Baja California
“Homenaje a Blancarte. La huella del caimán”, CECUTEC, Tecate, Baja California
“La plástica inédita” (“The inedit plastic”), 21 artists from Baja California (Sculpture & Painting).
1999 “Reflejo: el cuerpo erótico y místico” (“Reflex: The erotic and mistic body”), Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Baja California
“Retrospectiva Taller UABC”, (“Retrospective workshop UABC”), Cultural and Art Festival, Tecate, Baja California
“Mujeres en las Artes” (“Women in the arts”), City Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California
1998 “Colectiva Anual del Estado” (“State Annual Colective”), Cultural and Arts Festival, Tecate, Baja California
“Mujeres en la plástica fronteriza” (“Women at the border plastic”), City Gallery, Tijuana, Baja California
1997 “Exposición Binacional de la Plástica Fronteriza” (“Binacional Exhibition of Border Plastics”), Cultural and Arts Festival
1994 ”In-Site 94”, Tijuana, Baja California
“Novena Bienal Plástica de Baja California” (“Ninth Plastic Biennale of Baja California”)
COLLECTIONS
National Academy of Graphic Arts, Russia
DIN A4 Collection, Holland-Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cuenca, Ecuador
Museo de la Acuarela, Estado de Mexico
Cultural Institution of Baja California
Also in numerous private collections throughout Baja California, California, USA, Spain and Mexico City
PARTICIPATION
“II International Biennale of Graphic Arts of San Petersburg, Russia - White Inter Nights 2004 - “
Biennale Internazionale dell´Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, 2003
Honorary Mention in Bienal Universitaria 1994
Selected by the Bienal Plástica de Baja California 1993 and 1995
Selected by the Bienal Plástica del Noroeste 1993
POSTERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
2002 National Homage to Oscar Liera
2001 Homage to Jesús González Dávila
Cultural and Arts Festival of Tecate, B. C.
1998 Un Tañedor y un Poeta
“Ragged Bride” by Sylvia Mejía
“The prisoner” by Emilio Carballido
1993 “Cumbia” by Hugo Salcedo
Creation of the coloring book “Platero y yo”
Illustrations for the book Guardianes del tiempo (State Literature Prize1998) by Virginia Hernández
Illustrations for the dramatic text Sansborn´s Ligth (Yubai 1998) by Virginia Hernández
More than fifteen poster creations for diverse artistic spectacles
CATALOGUES AND MAGAZINES
2005 Gallery Guide Magazine, June/July/August, New York, USA
The New Cork Art World, june 2005
International Biennale of Contemporary Arts, Arad, Romania
Analogías de color y línea. Plástica en gran formato – Centro
Estatal de las Artes Catalogue, Baja California, Mexico
Interview by the electronic magazine Stylusart, online:
www.stylusart.com
2004 Gallery Guide Magazine, March, New York, USA
Artis Spectrum Magazine, Vol. 12, New York, USA
Gallery & Studio Magazine, June-July-August, Vol. 6, Num. 5, New York,
USA
Catalogue - Keller Fest dos fuerzas / two energies, Mexican Contemporary
Art, Petaluma, CA, USA
Catalogue - Ventipertrenta04 Festival Internazionale di Arte Digitale,
Potenza Picena, Italy
Catalogue - Ars Latina, Porto Recanati Castello Svevo, Italy
2003 Catalogue - Second Independent International Biennale of Graphic Art, San
Petersburg, Russia
Catalogue - Biennale Internazionale dell´Arte Contemporánea, Florencia,
Italy
2002 Época Magazine, July, Num. 578, Mexico City
2001 Yubai Magazine, January-March, Num. 33, Tijuana, B. C., Mexico
SCENIC WORK
FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS
2002 National Homage to Oscar Liera
2001 National Homage to Jesús González Dávila
1998 National Theater Sample, Tijuana, B. C.
1997 National Theater Sample, Monterrey, N. L.
1997 Journeys of Latin-American Theater, Puebla, Pue.
ACTRESS WORK
Since 1993 she joined the UABC’s theater workshop under the direction of Professor Fernando Rodríguez Rojero.
Most recent work in her acting carrier:
2004 Border Santo by Virginia Hernández, directed by Fernando Rodríguez Rojero,
Ensenada Theater Company
Participation in the film Cuándo es tiempo (When it’s time), by Ivonne
Soberanis
2003 “The king’s daughter/Apócrypha” by Luisa Josefina Hernández (The
daughter, Esther, Judith, Susana), Ensenada Theater Company
Roles as a leading actress:
1996 The clog by Roberto Corella (Ella) – World Premier
1995 Caress by Sergei Belbel (the mother) – National Premier
1994 Cumbia by Hugo Salcedo (the Cuca) – World Premier
1993 The Letter Opener by Victor Hugo Rascón B. (the professional)
She has also participated with the Ensenada Theater Company, B. C. in the following:
2002 The Black Birds from Goodbye – National Homage to Óscar Liera
The Prisoner by Emilio Carballido (Ma. Antonieta de la Rosa) – World
Premier.
1997 The Black Birds from Goodbye by Oscar Liera (Isabelle)
SCENERY AND PROPS
She designed the scenery for the following plays:
Cumbia by Hugo Salcedo
The forbidden children by Jesús Gonzalez Dávila
Ragged Bride by Sylvia Mejía
Caress by Sergi Belbel
She designs the Props for:
Guardians of Time by Virginia Hernández
Polo Yellow Ball by Jesús González Dávila.
POETIC PRESENTATIONS
Along with Francisco Guerrero she forms part of divers poetic and guitar presentations, highlighting: “Notes and Fuges for your Absence” and “Skin to the Shadow”.
Since 1995, together with guitar players Alberto Ubach, Francisco Guerrero, Roberto González and tenor and guitar player Marco Antonio Labastida they conform the guitars and voices ensemble “Esplandián” one of the regions most original and representative groups.
Since 1995 she develops her personal dramatized poems along with professor Alberto Ubach, frequently performing at divers spaces throughout the state of Baja California.
She recorded 3 CDs of poetic and classic guitar along with Professor Alberto Ubach: “Para Lorca” (“For Lorca”) and “De Amor y Discreción” (“Of Love and Discretion”); poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and music by Santiago de Murcia, and “Platero y Yo” (“Platero and I”); poems by Juan Ramón Jimenez and music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In 2001 she creates the group “Cineas”: ensemble of 5 poetic voices and music which she directs.
She also participated in the VI Nacional Poets Encounter (2003), Nepantla, Estado de México, in wich a Homage to Rubén Bonifaz Nuño was held.
At the moment, she continues promoting the poetic-musical spectacle in the duet she conforms with Professor Alberto Ubach.
MUSIC
She began her piano studies as a child with private teachers and in 1985 in the Escuela Superior de Música “Carmen Romano” in Monterrey NL. She participated in various choirs, outstanding the IRBAO choir of the city of Orizaba, Ver. (1981-1983).
She studied composition with Professor Alberto Ubach. From 1991 to 1995 she performs as a soloist various piano concerts through the state of Baja California and teaches piano lessons and didactic concerts, privately as well as in the Casa de la Cultura of Tecate, B. C.
In 1995 she performed concerts along with Professor Alberto Ubach’s presentation of the “guitarrina” (instrument invented by the Professor himself).
She has directed the music for several scenes and composed original music for:
2001 The toy Factory by Jesús González Dávila.
1996 Caress by Sergi Belbel.
CULTURAL PROMOTER
2001-1999 She organized the “Cultural and Arts Festival of Tecate, B. C.”
2000 Outstands the “First Exhibition of Sculptures from Baja
California”.
1999 She organizes the “First Children Theater Festival” in Ensenada,
B. C.
1999-1997 She develops the “Classic Guitar Cicles of Tecate, B. C.”, integrated by the region’s most outstanding guitar players.
1995 She founds the “Children and Youth Orquestra of Tecate, B. C.”
• To the date, she organizes concerts, recitals, exhibitions and theater plays under her own space, better known as “The House of Laura and Manuel”.
EDUCATION
Since 1993 to date, she is member of the “Plastic Arts Workshop” of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, directed by Professor Álvaro Blancarte and the assistance of Professor Salvador Magaña.
PERSONAL DEVELOPEMENT SEMINARY - Coordinación Binacional del Centro Cultural de Tijuana (2003)
NATIONAL PROGRAM OF EDUCATIONAL THEATER - Grupo 55, Pátzcuaro (2003)
ACTING AND VOICE TRAINING- Professor Soledad Luiz (2003)
SEMIÓTIC OF THEATER SCENERY – Professor Armando Partida Tayzán (2002)
VOICE AND RESOUNDING OBJETS- Dominique Montaigne y Henry Ogier
MUPPET MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP – Professor Carlos Converso (1999)
SEMIÓTICA DE LA PUESTA EN ESCENA II - Professor Armando Partida Tayzan (1999)
BODY EXPRESION WORKSHOP – Professor Antonio Esparza (1997)
DIPLOMA ON VISSUAL ARTS UABC (1999-1998) Professors:
Alberto Castro Leñero – Encaustic –Pía Seirsein – Paper Manufacturing –Kiyoto Ota O. –Wood Sculpture –Paul Nevin – Metal Sculpture–Antonio Nava – Stone Sculpture -
The Art of Living from Art Seminar – Felipe Ehrenberg
The Art of Perform Seminar – Felipe Ehrenberg
Residence of Professor Antonio Nava, Tecate, B.C. (2000)
PROPAVIS 2000 – Professional Artist Program – CEHU, FONCA and CECUT, Tijuana, BC
Professors: Carlos Zerpa – The Art of Assembly –Alberto Caro – The Community System Carmen Mariscal – Art Therapy –Felipe Ehrenberg – The Act of Memory: Editing and Publishing –Olga Margarita Dávila – Reflection, Criticism and History of the Visual Arts –Jerome Rothemberg – Text, Poetry and Scenic Presence –
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