Carmen Calvo

Carmen Calvo

La naturaleza agita, 2011-2022

Detalle. Madera, gres pintado, yeso, luz. 400 x 400 x 400 cm. Foto: Juan Garcia Rosell

Imagen cortesía © IVAM, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, 2022

Generalitat Valenciana, 2022. Vista general. Foto: Juan Garcia Rosell

Los amantes, 2016

Técnica mixta, collage, fotografía. 100 x 57 cm

Carmen Calvo, 2023

Vista general. Museu Picasso. Barcelona, España

Carmen Calvo, 2023

Vista general. Museu Picasso. Barcelona, España

Pero el silencio estaba ahí,2021

Técnica mixta, fragmentos de maniquí, espada, madera. 96 x 152 x 36 cm.

El tiempo que apasiona, 2018

324 tarjetas postales intervenidas con collage. 20 x 25 cm. (c.u)

Carmen Calvo, 2023

Vista general. Museu Picasso. Barcelona, España

Carmen Calvo, 2023

Vista general. Museu Picasso. Barcelona, España

La habitación de al lado, 2023

Vista general. Luis Adelantado. Valencia, España

Una conversación, 1997

Técnica mixta. Objetos varios. 400 x 400 x 400 cm. Bienal de Venecia, Italia. Monasterio de San Miguel de lo Reyes

No sé lo que persigo al convocaros, 2024

Técnica mixta. Pizarra, collage, objetos. Conjunto de 21 piezas de 100 x 130 cm. (c.u). Colección Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Serie de pizarras,1996-1997

Técnica mixta. Pizarra, collage, objetos. Conjunto de 21 piezas de 100 x 130 cm. (c.u). Colección Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Imagen cortesía © IVAM, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, 2022

Generalitat Valenciana, 2022. Vista general. Foto: Juan Garcia Rosell.

No es lo que parece, 1999

Técnica mixta, collage y fotografía. 190 x 122 cm.

Bio

Carmen Calvo (Valencia, 1950) is one of the greatest references of contemporary conceptual art whose work, close to art povera and pop, discovers its language in commonplace objects charged with memory, creating a very personal language to approach the analysis of human behavior as violence and oppression towards women.

As if it were archaeologies, her works are made up of small fragments of various materials, including ceramics or clay, a characteristically material in her work, from small format pieces to her large installations with a resemblance to scenography. The use of vintage photographs is as well part of the artist group of works intervening on them with organic elements such as hair or wax. She also explores the use of mannequins whose dismembered pieces generate aggressive and melancholic theatrical readings.

Carmen Calvo’s work is part of the most prestigious museums and collections and has been part of important national and international exhibitions, including the XLVII Venice Biennale in 1997, New Images from Spain, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980 as well as her monographic exhibitions at the Museo Reina Sofía in 2002 and at the IVAM in Valencia in 2007 and in 2022, the latter on the occasion of the International Award Julio González 2020. She has been granted with the Alfons Roig Award from the Diputación de Valencia 1989, the Medal from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia 2009 and the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Spain in 2013, among others. In 2023 she had an important monographic exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

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