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Karla Rojo M. Zacatecas, México 1980.
Mexican, born in 1980. She studied in Zacatecas city. She enters to the University in 1998. Dropped out administration studies in 2002 to devote full time to painting, feeding herself through classes, workshops, courses, conferences, lectures and readings as a prologue to the artistic awareness and aesthetic creativity development. In 2003 she made Fairy and puppet exhibition in El Principio gallery and Hojaldrina in Zacatecas city. In 2004 she exhibits Life and Death at the Hotel Emporio Zacatecas. In 2005 she moved to Galicia, Spain where she continued in an intense process of artistic production, and she gave artistic lectures for primary school children in local councils. She started in conjunction with her husband Rojo Urbiola Foundation, AC, a project of artist residency exchange between Mexico and Spain as well as cultural events, exhibitions and performances in Galicia municipalities and Mexican official representation in Europe (2005 - 2010). In 2006 she exhibits at the Cultural center Outes in La Coruña. In 2007, she is responsible for the archiving and project management of the Foundation and also participates in the traveling exhibition Zacatecas Contemporary Art (Spain, Portugal, France) as assistant curator and museum. In 2008 she won a scholarship from the Foundation's Contemporary Print International Center in Coruña, Spain and the Government of Zacatecas. She exhibits her work in the Libertad gallery of Santiago de Queretaro city. She works for the design of brochures for joint exhibitions with the Mexican Embassy in Portugal. She hosts visit from conducting informative capsules Conaculta Channel 22 in Lisbon. In 2009 she returned to Mexico where she continues with an intense production. Scholarship by Camille Claudel Ceramic workshop. In 2010 she is represented by the Colón Gallery in Merida, Yucatan. In 2011 she participates in the National Ceramic Competition exhibition in Tlaquepaque. In conjunction with Eduardo Urbiola initiates TUNA contemporary ceramics center, at the metropolitan area of Puerto Vallarta (Bucerias), production and teaching workshop focused on ceramic sculpture and design. In the same year is represented by Ron Morgan Properties Art Gallery in Banderas Bay and AREWA ARTE in Puerto Vallarta. She continuous working in her impetuous production and experimental work.
Professional Development .
I begin with my visual artist project in 2002 in a self-taught way. The first step was carrying out drawings, sketches, and some small size paintings without a relevant subject, but with the intention to improve the trade practice, mainly drawing. This is a very intense stage of skills and basic training recognition, about searching directionality in a very instinctive work.
A year later I start the Living and Death series. This work was a formal search and experimentation with chromatic composition, space working in an allegoric context. The allegories are not only in characters but also in the great quantity of decorative elements which are the space composition itself. This series emerges, in big measure, from the study about forms and spatial compositions overcrowded with figures, elements and symbols of some art nouveau pieces, secession period, mainly from the painter Gustav Klimt, in the human figure integration with symbolic elements that flood the complete space, the hair game, the body gestures in a same rhythm, and in the way how work is enriched thanks to the previous multicolour layers which makes the eye to perceive only a colour in the final result. Even in this series my work start directing to a primordially discursive study, of chromatic and movement perception in the ornamental elements, finishing lying in the decorative and harmonious speech only. This took me to reduce the elements and quantity elements, beginning the Characters series, where I highlight human figure drawing in characters who represent philosophical subjects in a position game.
In 2005 we moved to Galicia. □ This change of context was printed in my work too. □ I make the White Stage beginning with Couples series. □ There is a formal rupture in colour composition and figures overcrowded, palette turns into a harmonious range of whites at background, and human figure a little stylized become in the artwork central element. □ Under a simpler subject I’m exploring in this new way where my work is directing, very from the Egon Shiele artwork study particularly in his drawings (watercolour and pencil on paper), to well defined lines a little deformed, sober in colour and rescuing especially the ochre, maroons, black and white palette from his landscapes. □ It’s in this same period where Eduardo Urbiola, my husband and I started in our visual art spread and promotion, being convinced of this nobler work and next with businesspeople and members of society, we created the Fundación Rojo Urbiola, AC (Rojo Urbiola Foundation) which active and directly has been enriching my professional work. □ Under the same tenor, I start the most recent series in this stage, Living Histories, the second series of the White stage, but containing a more mature work, with a wider look focus to other possibilities. □ In this second series the characters, more independent, leave to be representative, leave posing, rather they’re immerse in a cotidianity where I catch them aesthetically in one single image. I reduce even more the painting to a almost monochromatic range of colours .
□ In the second semester of 2007 I begin the series First Chapter portrait based on the impressive experience of maternity, a series of children portraits personifying the first chapter of a story. In these portraits I looked for emphasize the drawing line, declaring in a very tenuous way the pictorial shadows game, taking to the characters like a binnacle of my experience and counterpoint of the previous series where the transcendental characters were the old people.
□ 2008 start with the series titled Lives Lines, throwing a look towards how our lives are interlaced like thread hanks, in the game to romp, to tie and to unknot those threads that represent different characters, we, this series are born already in Betanzos, watching from my window people rambling by the main square of the town. □ I was looking here for majors possibilities in the chromatic manipulation, in a more practical way, faster, where the character was just like shades, leaving liberties in the directionality of the work cobeing contiguous with the abstraction.
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In 2008 I ramble a little by the printing territory being
useful the scholarship that I grant the fo 2010 was a year of consolidation and maturation of the clothing speech and refinement of technique, which has led me to build a second course in series called Present, Absent, where I deepened my character absence speech through the presence of his clothing. During the process of making sculptures and gradually entering to the children's world, I began to look as a reinforcement element other elements, also made of ceramic, such as toys. But later, as well as reinforcing parts, I place the characters on a stage, made of wood with the intention that each element was not only auxiliary work but that all elements make up the piece, the scene, and to achieve clear speech to the spectator. This is called CHILDREN project in which I am currently involved. |
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