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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Laura Castanedo
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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” everything that got into my hands. My mom used to say that reading was for me like a drug since when I started a book I couldn’t stop until I finished it, even if that took me all night.... 32 years latter I still can’t go to sleep without the company of a book...
At 13 my literature teacher asked me to read in front of my classmates the “Romance de la luna luna” (Romance of the moon, moon) by Federico García Lorca.... that was a amazing discover for me. I found that Poetry was like music in a way. It amazed me to discover that I was able to create beautiful images using words and to see how that images were interpreted in my mind. That was something I wanted to share with the world.
In 1998 to commemorate Lorca’s 100th birthday, I painted my first piece and it took me 4 more years to stop painting about him. At first, I simply let my brushes to flow with the music of the words (De la Poesia), latter; I integrate his life in my work (Imágenes Lorquianas).
But Lorca was not the first poet that inspired me. In 1994, while reading an article in the Rock and Pop magazine entitled “THE DEPRAVED OLD MAN HAS GONE”, I learned that my beloved Charles Bukowski passed away... the less I could do was to paint something in his memory... that was the way my first painting was born.... after I could not stop... With all my hearth to Hank
In 2001 The Watercolour Museum of the State of Mexico invited me to a solo exhibition. Nepantla, a little town in the State of Mexico, was the cradle of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz, one of the National Glories of my country, Sor Juana of exquisite sensitivity and gentleness, is considered the Tenth Muse, Phoenix of México, First Poetess of Mexico and First Feminist of the Americas. She was a great fighter for the intellectual equality of sexes. It was a big challenge to me to do something about her and that is how “De Amor y de discreción – divertimentos visuales para Sor Juana-” (About Love and discretion- visual divertissement for Sor Juana) was born. I exhibited 40 watercolours on this subject in 2002. But just like I am not able to stop when a good book crosses my way until I finish reading it, this time I persistently searched to brought Sor Juana into the visual language, the issue of my search being her most important poem “El Sueño” (The Dream). So many books have been written about this poem, it is cryptic, philosophic and full of incredible images. At the moment, I had finished 5 paintings just about the last verse of the poem ("El mundo iluminado, y yo despierta"). On a sixth painting named “La Metamorfosis de Inés”, I wanted to represent her in the middle of this Dream just like I saw myself in the middle of this challenge.
But that is not the only area I was working with at the time... I do love music too, so I worked simultaneously in a series that I named “De Fugas y Temperancias” (About fugues and Temperance). It is a small approach to Juan Sebastian Bach, but also represent my actual state of mind, getting closer to my mature age, understanding my destiny, grateful of the Gifts God gave me, seeing my children grow, trying to remain young of mind....
What’s coming next? I believe I will keep working with Buko, Lorca, Bach and my beloved Juana all my life but there is a poem inside me that comes and comes.... (awaiting to come out?)
“ Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.....
I loaef and invite my soul,
I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form´d from this soil,
this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never
forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy”
I will be 37 years old on August 16... I am looking forward to spend it in company of Walt Whitman
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