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BIOGRAPHY
She was born on December 15, 1948, in the city of Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
She studied the specialty in ceramics, at the School of Fine Arts "LIBERO PIERINI",
Río Cuarto; Graduated in 1983.
Since 1987 she has participated in provincial, national and international
collective exhibitions.
4th World Ceramic Trial (Zagreb-Croatia).
4th International Biennial of Ceramics (Cairo-Egypt).
Lounges and awards
2012 - 1st Mention of the Jury in the sculpture hall "Córdoba culture agency", Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
2010/2011 - Special Mention of the Jury in the National Salon of Ceramics of La Pampa, Argentina.
2010 - 2nd Annual Salon of the Ceramic Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009 - Selected at Ulsan International Onggi Competition Korea.
- 1st Prize Ceramic Sculpture in the First Provincial Hall of Ceramic Art, Córdoba, Argentina. ("Silent Charms").
- 1st Prize, Professional Sculpture, Municipality of Rio Cuarto and Centro Empresario Comercial, Industrial y Servicios de Río Cuarto. (Work "Between Heaven and Earth).
2009 - Participates in Macsabal symposiums in Zibo City, China where he also participates in the Shinan Fair and the Muscabal meeting of murals in Korea.
2008 - Selected to work at the Museum of Works of International Ceramic Arttists in Fuping, China.
2007 - Participates in the 9th Jingdezhen China International Ceramic Fair where work is done at the International Ceramic Work (shop in the artist's villa of Garden Xindu China.)
2005 - Selected National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais De Glace, Buenos Aires
2004 - Selected National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais De Glace, Buenos Aires.
2000 - Selected National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais De Glace, Buenos Aires.
About my work:
While sharing tasks in the field with my mother and my brothers, I face the surprise encounter with a strange animal, for my stranger, it was a snake, from the experience of my childhood and almost without realizing it, I take the icon of this Mythical referent of nature for my personal work.
I began my personal processes looking for the first pre-Columbian cultures that inhabited the place where I live. Especially in the northwest of Argentina were vestiges of ceramic art mainly of religious character with figures that refer to the serpent. For example the Aguada culture and the Belen culture that developed about 1000 years ago.
Art and iconography clearly demonstrate the importance of the deity of the feathered serpent in the Mesoamerican chronology: Toltec, Mayan, Aztec, etc. These people relate it to the arts, the giver of corn and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection.
My concerns reached the eastern world where I discover their sensuality, refinement subtlety and spirituality.
And to my astonishment, I find, that in common they have the mythical presence of the serpent, beneficial presence, related to nature, fertility, life cycles. In ancient China the snake has traditionally been considered a benign and auspicious animal. For its ability to change skin, it is considered a symbol of the continuous cycle of rebirth and destruction, which has been able to serve as relief from the existential anguish of the first human populations. The serpent is also a female symbol.
It has been present in other cultures of the world, in some appreciated and others repudiated. In the West, Christian and Islamic beliefs identify it with the devil, with Satan, according to the Bible and the Koran, which tells of his condemnation for tempting Adam and Eve.
For the ancient Egyptians, snakes could be both protective deities linked to the good harvests and the heat of the sun, as well as malefics linked to the dark and horrible beyond.
In the search to express through the pottery what I feel and think, I say it with snakes and as they materialize, they acquire forms and life of their own and they are the ones that speak of what I mean and there they are moving on the earth but rising, becoming humanized and rising from their creeping condition.
My humanoid snakes when they are alone, they are not still, they procreate, they watch the world, they seduce sexually, they measure the circular time, eternal, that it has no end, thus they surpass the animal, they also surpass the human thing and they manifest as supernatural, When my snakes are a couple intertwine, linking emotionally and with human feelings. Thus in their appearance are revealed the amorous, sexual, dominant, suffocating or destructive relationships. I try to show the duality of the relationship with the other. The demonstration of a deeply binding affectionate affection or the relationship that strangles, depriving of freedom and drowning human development.
