Carmen Calvo (artist) explained

Carmen Calvo
Birth Name:Carmen Calvo Sáenz de Tejada
Birth Place:Valencia, Spain
Occupation:Artist
Organization:Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia
Years Active:1973–present
Awards:National Award for Plastic Arts (2013)
Alma Mater:School of Fine Arts of Valencia

Carmen Calvo Sáenz de Tejada (born 1950) is a Spanish conceptual artist, noted for her contribution to the contemporary art of the Valencian Community.

Biography

Carmen Calvo was born in Valencia in 1950.[1] In her youth she worked in a ceramic factory, an experience which would later be reflected in her art, which includes fragments of pottery and clay.[2] She studied advertising and entered that city's School of Arts and Crafts from 1965 to 1970. She attended the School of Fine Arts of Valencia from 1969 to 1972.

She held her first individual exhibition in Valencia in 1976, and her second in Madrid in 1977.[2]

From 1983 to 1985 she lived in the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and moved to Paris,[3] where she remained until 1992. Since then she has lived and worked in Valencia.[1]

Artistic career

An admirer and follower of artists such as Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Filippo De Pisis, Carlo Carrà, Jean Arp, Joan Miró, and Jannis Kounellis,[4] Calvo incorporated terracotta into her plastic compositions very early on so that this element would become an icon of her work. In addition to painting, Calvo is known for carrying out interventions, in some cases on a permanent basis, in public buildings.[5]

In the 1980s she received several scholarships, and won distinctions such as the LaSalle Seiko First Prize for Painting and the Alfons Roig Award from the .[6] In 1980 she was one of nine artists chosen to participate in the exhibition New images from Spain at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.[7] In 1982 she also exhibited at the first edition of, the contemporary art fair of Madrid, with the Fernando Vijande Gallery.

In 1990 the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern presented a retrospective on her work since 1973.[8]

In 1995, Calvo created the Lápida-Mural, the result of a competition organized by the Regional Ministry of Public Works of the Valencian Community, for on metro Line 3, a project by Carlos Meri and .[5]

In the late 1990s she began to introduce photographic images into her compositions[2] and created scenes based on installations, which synthesized, as Francisco Brines referred to it, her "saved and saving view" on contemporary reality.[9]

She represented Spain with a gallery of mirrors at the Venice Biennale in 1997, together with the Catalan poet Joan Brossa.[10] In 2003 the Museo Reina Sofía dedicated an exhibition about her work. From 2 December 2016 to 29 January 2017, her exhibition Carmen Calvo. Todo procede de la sinrazón (1969–2016) was held at Sala Alcalá 31 in Madrid.[11]

In 2013 she received the National Award for Plastic Arts from Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports,[3] and in 2014 she was named an academic of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia.[12]

She participated in the Official Section of the 2018 PHotoEspaña Festival with the exhibition Quietud y vertigo.[13]

Feminist themes have been prominent in Calvo's work,[2] and in March 2019, she and fellow artist Carla Fuentes received the Carmen Alborch Award from the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country for their contributions to culture and feminism.[14]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carmen Calvo . Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Español . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20160529212544/http://www.museoph.org/MuseoPatioHerreriano/coleccion/listado_de_autores/searchAuthor/26/58//////// . 2016-05-29 . dead . 2019-07-03.
  2. Book: Bozal, Valeriano . https://books.google.com/books?id=vu94DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT594 . Historia de la pintura y la escultura del siglo XX en España. Vol. II: 1940–2010 . History of Painting and Sculpting in 20th-Century Spain. Vol. II: 1940–2010 . 4.2.5. Carmen Calvo . Antonio Machado Libros . 9788491140603 . Spanish . 2015-07-20 . 2019-07-03 . Google Books.
  3. News: La valenciana Carmen Calvo, Premio Artes Plásticas 2013 . The Valencian Carmen Calvo, 2013 Plastic Arts Award . . EFE . Madrid . Spanish . 2013-11-08 . 2019-07-03.
  4. News: El universo objetual de Carmen Calvo llena de poesía el Palacio de Velázquez . The Objective Universe of Carmen Calvo Fills the Palacio de Velázquez with Poetry . . Madrid . Spanish . 2002-10-24 . 2019-07-02.
  5. Discurso de contestación a la Académica Carmen Calvo . Francisco . Taberner Pastor . Memoria Académica . . 107 . Spanish . 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170816061242/http://www.realacademiasancarlos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anuario-2015.pdf . 2017-08-16 . dead . 2019-07-03.
  6. News: Ronda acoge una exposición que reúne las obras más recientes de la artista Carmen Calvo . Ronda Hosts an Exhibition that Brings Together the Most Recent Works of the Artist Carmen Calvo . . Europa Press . Ronda . Spanish . 2011-07-30 . 2019-07-03.
  7. News: Spanish art begins long overdue emergence . Norman . Nadel . . NEA . New York . A7 . 1980-06-29 . 2019-07-03 . Newspapers.com.
  8. Web site: Carmen Calvo: Obras 1973–1990 . . 2019-07-03.
  9. Book: La Visión impura: fondos de la colección permanente . . 42 . Spanish . 2006 . 9788480262866 . 2019-07-03 . Google Books.
  10. News: Joan Brossa y Carmen Calvo expondrán en la Bienal de Venecia . Joan Brossa and Carmen Calvo to Exhibit at the Venice Biennale . Francisco . Calvo Serraller . . Spanish . 1997-02-14 . 2019-07-03.
  11. Web site: Carmen Calvo: Todo procede de la sinrazón (1969–2016) . . Spanish . 2019-07-03.
  12. News: Carmen Calvo reivindica en su ingreso en San Carlos la imagen . Carmen Calvo Reclaims Her Image in Her Entry Into San Carlos . . Valencia . Spanish . 2014-12-10 . 2019-07-03 . 29 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190429001452/https://www.levante-emv.com/cultura/2014/12/10/carmen-calvo-reivindica-ingreso-san/1199157.html . dead .
  13. Web site: Carmen Calvo participa en PHotoEspaña 2018 con la exposición Quietud y vértigo . . Spanish . 2018-06-07 . 2019-07-03.
  14. Web site: Las artistas Carmen Calvo y Carla Fuentes, premios Carmen Alborch . Nacho . Monrabal . . Valencia . Spanish . 2019-03-10 . 2019-07-03.
  15. News: Cultura – La Facultad de Bellas Artes entrega mañana sus medallas de San Carlos al MuVIM, Carmen Calvo y Paco Bascuñán . Culture – The Faculty of Fine Arts Presents its Medals from San Carlos to MuVIM, Carmen Calvo, and Paco Bascuñán Tomorrow . . Valencia . Spanish . 2009-12-16 . 2019-07-03.
  16. Web site: Premios AECA 2001-2012 . Spanish Association of Art Critics . Spanish . 2019-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150523224012/http://www.aecaspain.es/index.php/actividades/19-premios . 23 May 2015 . dead .
  17. Web site: Premis ACCA de la Crítica d'Art – 30ª Convovatòria 2013 . Catalan Association of Art Critics . Catalan . https://web.archive.org/web/20140506060151/http://acca.cat/premis-acca/ . 2014-05-06 . dead . 2019-07-03.

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