Año IX - Número 54
Actualizado a 29/05/2011
Gallery O+O in New York
Valencia, marzo`09.
JADITE GALLERIES. New York, april and may 09.
The Art Gallery 0+0 (Oriente & Occidente Cultural Gestion) is pleased to present two exhibitions in the months of April and May, 2009, at the JADITE GALLERIES in New York (United States). The Gallery 0+0 from Valencia is introducing the works of the following artists for this event: Enriqueta Hueso, Miguel San Román, Julián Ortiz, Mónica Cerrada, Guillermo Olmo, Ana Castañer y Ana Pobo.
Enriqueta Hueso brings a selection of art works inpired by the power of nature. The painter and designer Miguel San Román enriches the image of his work with philosophy, without getting caught up in aesthetics, The sculptor Julian Ortiz gives an unstable feeling of resolved balance to his sculptured figures. The painter Monica Cerrada shows the different transformations of nature in her work. Guillermo Olmo, one of the main artists from the new Basque sculpture scene, is exhibiting his work which has a proximity to nature through his combination of iron, stone and wood.. The attractive and seductive photographs of Ana Pobo take us on a beautiful journey into the past, memories and melancholic moments. The caligraphic creations of Ana Castañer play with rhythm and harmony in a composition of cotton-like stains and soft colours.
About the artists:
Enriqueta Hueso
The work of Enriqueta Hueso (Valencia, 1948) is plenty of simbols and fantasy that overload her own canvases, full of varied and mixed techniques that are characterized by its suggestive spontaneity and strength, where the material load of the painting and the collage are extremely present.
Enriqueta Hueso is a Fine Arts graduate who specialized in engraving.She has published and edited several articles and her work can be viewed in many public and private collections such as the University of Cheng Shiou of Taiwan, Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan), Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Holland, Denmark, New York, Berlin, Frankfurt and Osnabruck (Germany)… the collage allows Enriqueta"s paintings to come alive, linked to quotidianity. Her work method breaks with the classical laws of space and attracts the viewer with its articulate pictorial charge and its diverse components such as paper, cardboard, hair, wood, musical scores, etc. Her painting is strongly influenced by engraving, the early beginnings of collage and cinematography, characterized by its tireless search for expressivity and pictorial power.
Miguel San Román
The pictorial work of Miguel González de San Román (Vitoria, 1952) started out as being figurative.He then cultivated himself as a non-formal expressionist, and from the second half of the 70s he came to explore abstract expressionism. In the 80s he broadened his artistic journey into a world of visual representation which is 'seduced' by graphic design. The same intellectual insights that brought González San Román to study Fine Arts and Psychology are reflected in his work. Nature gives stimuli to his work, a labour of selection, synthesis and abstraction; he doesn't only try to abstract the exterior reality, but also to express the interior world. If something defines the paintings of González San Román it is colour: colourful, spontaneous brushes that create a dialectic with a primordial element; the void. The pictorial space of his latest work is linked to colour, form and emptiness.
Julian Ortiz
His sculptures are exclusively made of bronze, conferring an exceptional quality on his work.
The smelting is carried out with a technique whereby the original figure modelled in wax is destroyed at the moment the metal is cast, resulting in unique and unrepeatable pieces.
Also unique are the concepts that inspire each piece. The artist's constant production and research work is compiled in his work catalogue, in which every new piece has its own defined DNA, adding an individual personality to the art pieces.
Many of his sculptures are moments frozen in time, of an action happening far away from the hieratical immobility of the figurative imagery. The bodies' tension and the position of the limbs put the sculptures in momentarily paused scenes, like the photographer of a film pressing the pause button who, when pressing it a second time in order for it to continue playing, complements the movement and initiates that stopped action again, conferring a feeling of resolved unbalanced equilibrium on the figures.
He has control over the technique that makes it possible to move the centre of gravity of the figure without compromising the physical and expressive stability. The exaggerated enlargement of the limbs additionally gives dramatic expressivity and a deepening in the previous paragraph, the sensation of movement that shows a gothic spirituality. The expressions on the faces with bare heads are another sign of expressivity as they are presented talking, shouting, laughing and communicating. That is how the work of Julian Ortiz is: first and foremost a medium of communication of feelings and sensations.
Monica Began
For my first individual exhibition, Dr. Luis Parra Supervía (Permanent Professor at the Arts Department of Madrid Complutense University) wrote:
“Mónica began her aesthetic endeavour as it should be done, but most usually is not, by conscientiously learning to paint. Those who are impatient and prefer to take the shortcuts are not aware that the severe learning process is that which provides the artist with the confidence to paint with total freedom. For Mónica, who is free of any thematic or methodical obligations, everything is valid. She defines herself as a painter of the abstract but I would more likely define her as a painter of talent for her art goes much further than usual. She is good for abstraction and good for gestures, because this young painter works as should be done, with her heart. Everything is interesting for her, she discards nothing, because one cannot reflect what he does not know; she has the open vision of a world map. She paints everything that surrounds us at the same time as she enriches what others tend to discard: branches, bird feathers, forgotten sticks.... we could define her as a treasure hunter of the familiar. In this haughty quest of hers for forgotten materials, Mónica brightens our sights with her work. In her canvases she reflects everything that surrounds her or everything that remains inert in her world, bringing it to life.
Mónica”s paintings always have a symbolic essence, because they always transmit a poetic idea. She establishes emotional communication through the magic of her chromatic expressions; the mystery of light in a flash and evanescence and the silkiness of textures that appear to be treated with bird feathers rather than with the thick, rough hairs of a painters brush.
