Carmen Calvo Biography
Valencia, Spain 1950
Internacionally renowned Spanish painter.
Alter studying publicity she was admitted to the School of Arts and Trade in Valencia and after into the Fine Arts. About the middle of the 70's, she entertained the idea of archaeological items, starting a series of works that incorporated those fragments.
The work of Carmen Calvo has been seen as one of the most emphasized, in particular current Valencian art and Spanish art in general. She created at large a period that began at the beginning of the 70's, gradually configuring a strong personal language categorized by a changing character. She was interested in painting and especially in three-dimensional possibilities; she organized a plastic universe with in which she felt the basis of constant renovation. Later, after completing a commitment unmistakably experimental, she constructed one of the styles most representative in Spanish art today.
Individual Exhibitions (Selection):
2006 - PicassoMio.com
2004 - Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona. - Personajes anonimos , Galeria La Escalera, Cuenca - Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla - Galeria Guy Bartschi, Ginebra, Suiza. - Galeria Altxerri, San Sebastian
2003 - Galeria Academia, Mario Mauroner, Salzburgo. - Fundacion La Caixa, Tarragona - Galeria Colon XVI, Bilbao
2002 - Carmen Calvo , Sala de Exposiciones Mauro Muriedas, Torrelavega. - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid. - Galeria Patrice Trigano, Paris, Francia. - Galeria La Escalera, Cuenca
2001 - Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia - Galeria d'Art La Palma 12m, Vilafranca del Penedes, Barcelona - Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela - Carmen Calvo , Sala de Cultura Garcia Castañon, Pamplona
2000 - Galeria Ramis Barquet, Nueva York - Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italia. - La linterna magica , Galeria O.M.R., Mexico D.F. - FIAC'00, Paris, Galeria Luis Adelantado
1999 - Galeria Fernando Santos, Oporto - Galeria Alice Pauli, Lausana - Galeria Academia Residenz, Salzburgo - Palacio de Revillagigedo, Asturias - Galeria El Museo, Caracas - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Ã?mber, Caracas. - Conselleria de Cultura, Educacion y Ciencia, Valencia - Pensamientos , Pabellon de los Mixtos de la Ciudadela de Pamplona, Navarra - Galeria Adriana Schmidt, Colonia
1998 - Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid - Galeria Fernando Silio, Santander - Galeria Thessa Herold, Paris - Caixa Galicia, Centro Cultural de A Coruña y Vigo
1997 - Galeria SC 2, Santiago de Compostela - Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla - Sala Robayera, Ayuntamiento de Miengo, Cantabria - XLVII Bienal de Venecia, Pabellon de España. Con Joan Brossa - The Mysterious House of Carmen Calvo , Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Ã?ngeles - Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago - Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Museo deArte Moderno de Mexico D.F, Mexico. - Museo de Arte Moderno de Montevideo, Uruguay - Sala de exposiciones de la Diputacion de Malaga, Ã?rea de Cultura y Educacion
Work in Museums and Collections (Selection): - Excma. Diputacion Provincial de Valencia - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York - Fundacion Peter Stuyvesant, Amsterdam - Patrimonio Bancaixa, Valencia - The Chase Manhattan Bank, Nueva York - Banco Exterior de España, Madrid - Arabako Foru Aldundia, Arte Eder Museoa, Vitoria Artium, Vitoria - Coleccion Lambert, Bruselas - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid - Coleccion Arte Contemporaneo, Fundacio "La Caixa", - Barcelona - Fundacion Caixa de Pensions, Madrid-Barcelona - IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia - Coleccion Martinez Guerricabeitia-Universitat de Valencia - Coleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid - Fonds National d' Art Contemporain, F.N.A.C., Paris - MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - Museo Marugame Hirai, Kobe, Japon - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz - Col
- leccio Testimoni de la Fundacio "La Caixa", Barcelona
- Coleccion Banco de España, Madrid
- Coleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Fundacion Amigos de Arco, Madrid
- Fundacion Bancaixa, Valencia
- Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Ã?mber, Caracas
- Fundacion Caixa Galicia
- Museo Municipal de Madrid
- Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, CAM, Alicante.
- Museo de Vitoria