Rosa Navarro Explained

Rosa Navarro
Birth Name:Rosa Navarro Barandica
Birth Date:23 March 1955
Birth Place:Barranquilla, Colombia
Known For:Artwork
Father:Carlos Navarro Orozco
Mother:Rosa María Barandica

Rosa Navarro Barandica (born 23 March 1955, Barranquilla), is a Colombian photographer and mixed-media artist.

Career

The daughter of Carlos Navarro Orozco and Rosa María Barandica, Rosa Navarro was exposed to the arts since her birth as her mother was an artist who worked with several mediums. At an early age, Navarro began to learn and draw the human body on the wet sand which was in her home's patio. She also utilized wood, box cartons and clay, where she would get it from her father's ladrilleria (brick gallery).

Navarro began creating work in the 1980s that explored the semiotic meaning of her first name, Rosa, which in Spanish means both "rose" and "pink." The photographs from this period are self-portraits.

Navarro exhibited in Columbia in the 1980s and 90s and won several awards including winning second place at the first Salón Colombo-americano in 1982. Navarro currently lives and has her gallery in Santo Tomás, Atlántico, Colombia. She is also currently working on an artwork titled Rosalogico which depicts the human existence as a unique phenomenon inside the beauty that art can only create.

Education

Rosa Navarro studied at La Normal de Fátima and went on to study at El Instituto Ariano in Barranquilla where she developed her artist portfolio. In 1977, she joined the faculty of the Architecture department and, in 1978, she went on to study plastic arts at La Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla.[1]

Artwork

R-O-S-A Lenguaje de los Sordomudos, 1981

In 1981 a few professors like Antonio Iginio Caro, Alvaro Herazo and Ida Esbra incentivized Rosa to create her first photography artwork titled R-O-S-A, inspired by body parts as language and the color pink. Letras "R", "O", "S", A", is a reference to her name is sign language. Navarro spells ROSA in sign language with each of the photograph as one letter and colored in pink. This piece inspired her to create other ones like “Huellas en Rosa” and “Una Rosa es una Rosa”. In addition, she created a piece titled "La Amorosa, La Furiosa, La Misteriosa".[2] [3] She was part of a museum exhibition at the Arte Moderno de Medellín museum, "II Salón Arturo y Rebeca Rabinovich", in 1982.

She became interested in the nature of flowers in the work of Paul Gauguin and began to work with her name Rosa, which is also a flower. In her photography she includes herself not because of her name but because of her identity and as a symbol.[4] In certain occasions she also uses the word Rosa and in some she uses the themes and classic metaphors. For example, she used the classic theme of Dafne, who converts into the Laurel tree after Apollo chases her. She uses that theme but also converts herself throughout her art. She converts into a rose from a rose bush.

In 1984, she was invited to showcase her work at the "IX Salón Atenas" del Museo de Arte Moderno en Bogotá. Afterwards to showcase at the salón “Nominados” de la fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. In 1986, she received her first invitation to participate in the XXX Salón Nacional de artistas en Bogotá. Later she participates at the ediciones XXXII, XXXIV, XXXV. Since that period she has been part of several exhibitions where she showcases her work: “Rosa de los Vientos”, “Juego de Palabras”, “Romana”, “Rosa Patriótica-Rosa Ecológica”, “Recogiendo Espacio” and “Rosa Rosae”. She has gained excellent publicity and art criticisms which have exposed her internationally. Some of her artwork has been exhibited in France several occasions, they include: “Un Revé Rose pour une Rose” en el CDI santa Melanine Chantepie (2001), “Mire salle des Fertes de la Chatoais a Vern” (2002), and “Fantasía de una Rosa Caribe” (2007).

Nacer y Morir de una Rosa, 1982

Nacer y Morir de una Rosa (Birth and Death of a Rose) is a black and white series of seven photographs.[5] The artwork depicts the artist's face, and two large black roses covering her eyes. In the first photographs the roses begin as small buds, eventually growing into large roses and die.

List of artworks

Solo exhibitions

Collective exhibitions

Awards and honors

Distinctions

Bibliography

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References

  1. Web site: Rosa Maria Navarro Barandica . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191214130546/http://www.colarte.com/colarte/ConsPintores.asp?idartista=1538&pest=recuento . 14 December 2019 . 25 February 2019 . ColArte . es.
  2. Web site: Guerrero . Marcela . Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985: Rosa Navarro . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628124044/https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/rosa-navarro . 28 June 2022 . 11 March 2019 . . en.
  3. News: Lidia Azout y Rosa Navarro Exponen En Galería Quintero. Galindo Steffens. Margarita. September 15, 1984. El Heraldo. 8.
  4. News: Lo que pasa en la cultura. Hoy Salón Atenas. de Cano. Ana María. March 1984. El Espectador.
  5. Web site: Buckley . Annie . 20 November 2017 . The Other Side: Radical Women . live . https://archive.today/20231019034006/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-other-side-radical-women/ . 19 October 2023 . 12 March 2019 . Los Angeles Review of Books.
  6. Web site: 'Radical Women' at the Hammer Museum Is the Kind of Show That Art Critics Live For. 20 September 2017. artnet News. en-US. 11 March 2019.
  7. Book: !Hey chicas¡ ¿Dónde están? Poéticas de acción y reacción del género femenino en el arte Colombiano desde 1980.. Patricia. Sandra. Santos. Bautista. Enredars Publicaciones. 2018. Sevilla, Spain. 74–80.
  8. Fajardo-Hill. Cecilia. Guerrero. Marcela. 2017. Latina Art Through the Exhibition Lens: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985. Diálogo. 20. 1. 133–140. 10.1353/dlg.2017.0015. 149187408. 2471-1039.

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