Carmen Calvo
Peces de colores en la azotea
In "Peces de colores en la azotea" the Valencian artist Carmen Calvo brings together a completely new body of work. Pieces created from disciplines ranging from sculpture, engraving and photography to video projection and collage. The latter, intrinsic to the author's work since the beginning of her career as an artist in 1969. Curated by the Professor of Art History Rafael Gil Salinas, the exhibition is a clear reflection of Carmen Calvo's particular personal universe which, in the words of Gil Salinas, is present "both in the language she uses and in her constant fantasies, concerns, dreams and sleepless nights". Among the themes dealt with, we find metaphors for education, the family, sex, religion, love and reminiscences of childhood. Themes that try to be biographies of what the elements that make up the works have lived through. Among the artistic processes employed by the author, the search for three-dimensionality through the use of objects "which have not been designed for artistic purposes, but have been rediscovered by the artist [...] tracing a diary of worries, joys, illusions, sadness, dreams, losses and encounters".
