STUDIES
1988
- 1989 Cristina Gálvez
Atelier, Sculpture, Lima - Peru
1988
Cristina Gálvez Atelier, Painting, Lima - Peru
1982 Gina
Vali Atelier, Painting, Lima - Peru
1980 - 1981
Cristina
Gálvez Atelier, Drawing, Lima - Peru
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Angels, Virgins and Myths
Infinitus Gallery
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sculpture: María Elena Rodríguez-La Rosa (Perú)
Painting: José Sejo (Dominican Republic)
Supported by the Peruvian Embassy at Dominican Republic
Regional
Book Fair
Sculptures
and Painting Exhibition
"Colors
and Shapes"
Culture
National Institute - Loreto
Supported
by the Regional
Office of
the State of Foreing Affairs of Loreto.
Iquitos,
Perú
Sculptures
and Painting Exhibition
Casa
de América Latina
Lisbon,
Portugal
Supported
by the Peruvian Embassy at Portugal
2002 "Paipa
Festival"
440
years, Boyacá Departament, Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
2001
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
City
of El Carmen, Campeche State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Sculptures,
Cuautitlan de Romero Rubio
Mexico
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Painting
and Sculpture Exhibition
Guanajuato,
Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
2000
Sculpture Exhibition
Insurgentes
University, D.F. Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Second
Colloquium of International Relations
‘’The
Human Rights for a Peace Culture’’
Victoria
City , Tamaulipas, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Painting
and Sculpture Exhibition
Guanajuato,
Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Experience"
Exhibition
of Abstract Paintings
Lancelot
Hotel
Arrecife,
Lanzarote
Canarian
Islands
Spain.
Supported
by Hotel Lancelot
1999
''Magic World''
Sculptures:María
Elena Rodríguez-La Rosa - Peruvian Artist
Paintings:
Susan Schmidt - North American Artist
Mayo
and Navarro Art Gallery
Miami,
Florida, USA.
Supported
by The
Peruvian Consulate at Miami, Florida
Council
of Coral Gables
"Scuptures
and Painting Exhibition"
Diego
Rivera Museum
Guanajuato,
México
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Bullfighting
Paintings"
Andean
Parliament
Celebration
of the 30 years of Creation
Bogotá,
Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
"Scuptures
and Painting Exhibition"
Principe
de Asturias,Cultural Center
Madrid,
Spain
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Spain
Painting
Exhibition
Veracruz
City Museum, México
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Scuptures
and Painting Exhibition
Boyacá
Festival,Boyacá, Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
27
Cultural Festival, Tunja, Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
''Bullfighters''
Mayo
Gallery
Lima
Country Club Hotel
Lima,
Peru
''Sculptures
Exhibition''
Veracruz
City Museum, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Sculptures"
Maná
Intenational Culture
D.F.
México.
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Paintings,Drawing
and Sculpures"
Cervantes
Festival, Guanajuato,México
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
1998
"Paintings,Drawing and Sculpures"
Iberoamerican
States Organization
Bogotá,
Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
Ferkigraf,
Lima - Perú
"Paintings,
Drawing and Sculpures"
Santillana
Foundation for Iberoamerica
Bogotá,
Colombia
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Colombia
Ferkigraf,
Lima - Perú
Atlas
Copco, Colombia
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Celaya
Culture House
Guanajuato,
Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Scuptures
and Paintings"
Dr.
J.Pilar Licona Olvera Gallery
Hidalgo
Autonomous University, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Gallery
of Tulancingo City Library
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Salon
of the Old Convent of Actopan
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Gallery
of Mexican Chamber and Law Office School
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Salon
of Exhibitions of the General Direction mineral Resources
State
of Hidalgo, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Tulancingo
City School Gallery
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Hall
of Exhibitions of the International Linking Center and Educational Development
Hidalgo
Autonomous University, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
House
of Culture Tulancingo de Bravo
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at México
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
School
of Fine Arts, Hidalgo Autonomous University
Pachuca,
Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Center
of University Formation, Cevide
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Hidalgo
Autonomous University, Parsonage Room
Pachuca,
México
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Constitutional
City of Tlalnepantla de Baz '' Bronze Angels''
México
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
"Scuptures
and Paintings"
Tulancingo
Internacional Book Fair
Hidalgo
State, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
VII
International Biennal of Art
El
Cairo Palace of Art
Representative
of Peru - Sculpture
El Cairo, Egypt
Supported by The Peruvian Embassy at Egypt and KLM
1997
''Silent Dialogue''
Casa
del Lago Gallery
Chapultepec
Forest, Mexico
Federal
District, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Costa
Rica Airlines -LACSA
1996
"Sculpture,Drawing
and Painting"
IXCHEL
Museum of National Traditional Costume Gallery
Guatemala
City-Guatemala
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Guatemala
Costa
Rica Airlines-LACSA
Ferkigraf,
Lima -Peru
''Painting,
Drawing and Sculptures"
Hotel
Radisson Gallery
Villa
Antigua, Antigua Guatemala
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Guatemala
''Exhibition
of Painting,Drawing and Sculptures"
San
José Palacio Gallery
San
José Palacio Hotel, San José de Costa Rica
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Costa Rica
Costa
Rica Airlines
Ferkigraf,
Lima - Peru
1994
''Draw and Sculpture''
L'Imaginaire
French Alliance Gallery
Lima,
Peru
1992
"Being of the Ones, Faces of the Others''
Tribute
to the 92 Youth Spanish Emigration Meeting
Spanish
Center of Peru
Lima,
Peru
1991
''Torsos and Looks''
L'Imaginaire
French Alliance Gallery
Lima,
Peru
1990
"Strokes" Exhibition of Drawing,Sculptures
Portal
de Barranco Gallery Lima, Peru
Supported
by El Portal de Barranco
"Strokes
and Words''
Joint
Author of the Book
Poems:
Patricia Roca Rey
Drawings:
María Elena Rodríguez-La Rosa
Portal
de Barranco
Lima,
Peru
Supported
by El Portal Barranco, Lima-Perú
COLLECTIVE
EXHIBITIONS
2007 IV Feria de Arte Contemporáneo - Etnia 2007
Instalaciones de los Archivos del Rey
Bruselas, Belgium.
2006 Tercera Trienal de Tile
Modern Art Museum
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
17ª
LILLIPUT CERAMICS
World Exhibition of Small and Miniature Ceramics
Zagreb, Croacia
AGORA GALLERY
New York
United States of America
Paintings
2005 Peruvian
Contemporary Art.
María
Elena Rodriguez-La Rosa - Sculptures
José
Carlos Ramos - Painting
Playa
Dorada Hotel, Puerto Plata
Dominican
Republic
Supported
by the Secretary of State of Foreing Affairs of the Dominican Republic and the
Peruvian Embassy at
Dominican
Republic
Virtual
Painting Exhibition
Cayo
Mecenas Gallery
Virtual
Sculpture Exhibition
Cayo
Mecenas Gallery
Women
and the Art
Tribute
to the International Women Day
Bank
and Chamber Commerce Club
América
92 Gallery
Painting
and Sculpture
Sculpture
Representative
Lima,
Perú
2004
Latin American Art Exhibition
Nader
Gallery
Dominican
Republic
América
92 Gallery - Perú
Under
the Auspices of The Peruvian Embassy at Dominican Republic
Latin
American Art Exhibition
Nader
Gallery
Aruba
Latin
American Art Exhibition
Nader
Gallery
San
Juan
Puerto
Rico
Latin
American Art Exhibition
Nader
Gallery
Trinidad
and Tobago
2001
Peruvian Contemporary Art Exhibition
Galileo
Galilei Gallery
Madrid,
Spain.
Under
the Auspices of The Peruvian Embassy at Spain and Lan Chile
"Resonance"
International Art Show
United
Nations, CEPAL, Santiago de Chile - Chile
Under
the Auspices of the Diplomat Ladies Association and Emersis
More
near the Andean Identity
Art
Exhibition of the XXI Ordinary Period -Sessions of The Andean Parliament
Andean
Parliament, Bogota - Colombia
2000
"Peruvian Art"
Madrid,
Spain
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Spain and Lan Chile
"Paintings
and Sculptures"
International
Festival of Tamaulipas, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
Peruvian
Art Exhibition
Guanajuato, Mexico
Supported
by The Peruvian Embassy at Mexico
1999
Opening of Mayo Gallery
Country
Club Lima Hotel
Lima,
Perú.
1998
Painting Exhibition
City Council of Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
1997
''Today's Art for the Men of Tomorrow"
National Museum
Lima,
Peru
1996
''Tribute to Antonio Gaudi''
Borka's
Gallery
X
Summer Salon
Lima,
Peru
1995 Collective Sculpture Exhibition
Borka's
Gallery
Lima,
Peru
''Peruvian
Painting crossing Frontier''
Borka's
Gallery
Lima,
Peru
''Motors
and Wheels in the Art''
Borka's
Gallery
Lima,
Peru
''And
live the life''
Borka's
Gallery
Lima,
Peru
''Lima
Art Fair''
Hispanoamerica
Fine Art School
Lima,
Peru
1993
"Women"
Sculptures
108 Gallery
Lima,
Peru
1989
''Collective Exhibition" of Cristina Gálvez Atelier
L'Imaginaire
Gallery, French Alliance
Lima,
Peru
ARTIST COMMENTS
Photo:
Adolfo Ibañez Santa María |
Art
is a means to express what we feel or have experienced during the time
of our existence. Using different techniques and materials we can transmit
what we feel, live and observe in our own, distinctive way.
After
examining ourselves and meditating, the details of our existence and the
existence of the people around us, strong feelings emerge that allow us
to convey them into the creation of art. But not without the necessary
studies and effort that is required to adequately communicate what we
desire.
Experiences
recorded in our personality enable us to become storytellers of our own
ideas and the ideas of others. In my case, I am fortunate that through
my travels, I have met many people and learned about many cultures that
have inspired me and have enriched my personal anecdote.
To
communicate in our work, the time we are living and show others the differences
that exists with people is an ideal that has led me to different paths
in life.
Art
is the mirror of the soul... of your soul and mine ....of our gaze.
María
Elena Rodríguez- La Rosa
2005
- 2000
The Artist have been travelling the last five years to different countries
at Africa, Asia, America and Europe, to be able to study the local Culture
of each special place she decide to visit, and in this way be able to
add this knowledge to her future Exhibitions. Her studies are directed
to the Mythology and Religions,and also to the daily life, custom and
ancestral tradition that are still alive, in combinations with the ones
that are use in our time, with
a mixture of the present and the past times. The Artist have one of her
studios at Stockhom City,Sweden, being a member of the KKV ( Artist Asociation
at Stockholm City). In the same way, she also have
a studio at Beijing city,China and at Lima, Peru.
1997
- 1991
Creation,
Direction,and Conduction
Atelier of painting, drawing and sculpture
Guide to
the formation of young and adult artists
Lima, Peru
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CRITICS
Critic 1:
The
Angels are some of the most recurrent and disturbing topics of the universal
art. Messengers of heaven,are purely spiritual entities. According to the tradition
religious,God uses them to take their orders and manifest it in special missions:
the guard's Angel, the Announcer Angel, the Exterminator Angel,the Messenger
Angel , the Love Angel,etc.
Maria
Elena Rodriguez-La Rosa, has take the topic of the Angels to respond to their
formal and conceptual necessities,whose position was already implicity in her
immediately previous work.
In the constant purification of her plastic language,in the process of constant
synthesis until arriving to the last sharp expression, Malena goes building
the structures on those who she organizes her works. This sculptress's work
developes in effect the space that is her own starting from the lenghtened Angels,
of refined edges , where and expressive deformation of the reality is noticed,that
allows her to express the mysterious presence of that same reality, like a singular
concretion where the statement of power makes us forget the effects of the details,
the handmade beauty of the brass or the acrilic, to take us with more security
to the essenctial thing, to the rhytmic permises that fix the situation of the
sculpture and detemine its condition.
Maria
Elena has know how to avoid the reef of the handmade estilismo and its excess;
their ascetic and voluntary work registers in the ambient space, escaping from
the effect spreads to the esencial, and grasps it. This sculptress knows how
to dominate the matter trascending it without stopping to exalt the specific
elements. Her dialogue with the matter never fortuitous is always prepared by
a series of drawings and a slow elaboration,starting from a first outburst in
a clay block,too flexible material to valorize the pure expression.
The
since expression seem to take its true consistency in the second stadium of
elaboration of the work, in the moment of the finish, it is then when the work
of the hand makes the light that doesn't engender any violent contrast with
the shades to sprout. A light that assimilated the gray ones and the low tones
a lot but that the alive reflections.
These
Angels seated,kneeling,standing,show rough surfaces in contrast with the refines
ones, and the masses make clear the shades,thanks to a precise rhythmics balance
reaching a degree of dinamic expressive, where the cavities constructibles expand
in the space,and they lose the sense of their contour in the impulse of the
masses.
The
coherence of her production and the values of their current positions assure
possibilities to come of examining and enjoy a sincere and sensitive visual
expression.
Jorge Bernuy
Art Critic.
Lima - Perú
1996
Critic 2:
Her work allows to sintonize
with a concrete World. World that is profiles in the turns and rotate of her
sculptures, in the pure colors ,in her firm lines at painting. In the simplicity
in sculptural ways, in the transformation of the materials, in the harmony of
the designs, the force of character of a woman is guessed that she lives for
the art and its nurtured of its creations. It is a case of that common binomial
life-art that encourages the way of belonging to the artists.
Her sculpture is surprising.The one guessed right game mass-hole that characterizes
its three-dimensional works,configures them in solid units of composition and
in sense. The unfinished surfaces and the challenge to the statism of the dynamic
figures,accuse that each one has been worked with care, dedication, fondness,
and at the same time, with great vital force. Her painting connect in the claws
of the expressionism. The drawing is resolved and incisive. The use of full
colors,saturated and the mooring of each pictorical composition,speak to their
way,of a dominant passion : to find a visual language to give the artistic expression
to an entire existence.
Maria Elena's
works suggested the coalition of a dictomia : woman of great force and impulse
of tenacious dicipline and work.
Silvia Herrera Ubico
Director of Galleries.
Ixchel Museum of the Indigenous Suit.
Guatelama.
1997
Critic 3
(personal opinion):
Bronze is the most
enduring of metals for casting statues because of its beautiful colour that
matures with time. Bronze allows the statue to be touched so the form of the
work can felt just as the artist felt ir during its creation.
Maria Elena
uses bronze in her most effective series os cast statues-The Angels. Each Angel
has a slender and graceful human form but is balanced by the strong presence
from their expressive and perhaps symbolic poses.
The anatomical
form of the Angels stems from the Maria Elena's extensive knowledge of human
anatomy, which is fundamental to creating such imposing statuary. The skill
is reflected in the variety of expressive and naturalistic poses-from the authoritative
pointing Angel to the weary, resting Angel. Each has grace and movement where
you an believe that the Angels have souls, which is a reflection of the artist's
skill.
Maria
Elena has achieved in bronze a beautiful balance of form, movement and expression
creating bronze that speak-the Angels live up to their name
Nigel Meeks
Member of the Research Department
British Museum, London, England
1998
