User:Mariana monteagudo

MARIANA MONTEAGUDO:

Mariana Monteagudo is a Miami based artist from Venezuela who has been working her series of doll sculptures over the last decade. Her latex, ceramic and mixed-media dolls reflect Latin American culture and show her attraction to Japanese manga and mass-market toys. Her work reveals an element of irony, not only in her unprejudiced use of iconography, but also in the way the artist takes features from toys, figures designed to arise tenderness, with their big heads and moving expressions.

Her work has hardened recently, slowly unfolding “with a different spirit, more industrial, more hybrid, taking references from the memory of our generation.”“Little heroes, versions of action figures, cartoon characters and Barbie dolls are the sources of inspiration,” she says. “A look from the distance to the icons of our society, trying not to take them for granted, but showing a different side, sometimes dark and frightening...

These sculptures are a mix of cultural influences that range from pre-Columbian aesthetics to Japanese manga, and occupy a special niche on the art scene. The Venezuelan artist uses a variety of materials to complete her ceramic figures: hair, fabrics, necklaces. The dolls have an air of innocent wisdom about them, often due to their all-knowing, unblinking eyes. Some appear worldly; others more naïve. How eerily exciting it would be to find oneself surrounded by Monteagudo's range of silent personalities...

Selected solo and group Exhibitions: 2012 HUMANOID, Galería El Museo, Bogotá 2010 NARCISSUS MIRROR solo show, Galería el Museo,Bogota 2008 ARTEAMERICAS ART FAIR, Miami, USA 2008 CIRCA Art Fair 08, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. 2007 CIRCA Art Fair 07, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. 2007 ARTEAMERICAS ART FAIR, Miami, U.S.A. 2006 SELF PORTRAITS Galería el Museo, Bogotá. 2005 RECENT WORK AccessArt Gallery, Aruba. 2004 POP Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A. 2004 SOLO SHOW, Galería Fernando Pradilla Madrid Spain 2002 SOLO SHOW, Galería el Museo, Bogotá, Colombia. 2002 ICONS IDOLS Sala Mendoza, Caracas. 2001 CREATURES Galería Fernando Pradilla Madrid, Spain.

Group Exhibitions 2012 SP arte Sao Paulo, Brazil 2011 MEMORIA 10th anniversary exhibition, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain. 2010 Polimorfos Perversos, Galeria fernando Pardilla, Madrid, Spain. 210 Ellas Crean, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain 2009 ARTBO, art fair, Bogotá, Colombia 2008 SCOPE Art Fair Hamptons, New York, U.S.A. 2008 ART Rotterdam 08 Witzenhausen Gallery, Rotterdam Netherlands. 2005 ARCO art Fair, Gallery FernandoPradilla, Madrid, Spain 2004 TBA ART CHICAGO, Chicago Illinois, USA. 2004 ARCO ART FAIR 2004, Madrid Spain. 2003 8 TH HAVANNABIENALE 2003, la Habana, Cuba 2003 TBA ART CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 2003 FERIA ARCO, Madrid, Spain.

Selected collections: MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA Everson Museum Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. Robert Loder Collection, Chairman of the Triangle Arts Trust, London England. Pedro Muñoz Marín Collection, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. César Gaviria Trujillo Collection, Colombia. Magaly Cannizzaro de Capriles Collection, Caracas Venezuela. Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela. Colección Luís Gutiérrez Puerto Rico, USA.

email: marianamontelandia@gmail.com email: mm@marianamonteagudo.com

blogs and websites: 2012 http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/120420/mariana-monteagudo-estoy-en-contra-del-arte-frivolo http://melissakojima.blogspot.com/2012/04/humanoid-art-dolls-of-international.html http://www.cromos.com.co/reportajes/reportaje-144042-humanoide-la-sorprendente-exposicion-de-mariana-monteagudo http://bogota.vive.in/arte/bogota/exposiciones/abril2012/EVENTO-WEB-FICHA_EVENTO_VIVEIN-11651183.html http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/026969.php http://www.behance.net/gallery/HUMANOID/3304096 http://theartjunkie.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/mariana-monteagudo-not-the-average-doll/ http://www.lostateminor.com/2012/04/18/large-ceramic-dolls-by-mariana-monteagudo/#more-96485 http://theworldofphotographers.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/monteagudo-mariana-artist-dolls/mariana-monteagudo-humanoid-12/ sao paulo art fair sp-arte 2012: http://radarx.com.br/blog/2012/05/galeria-de-fotos-sparte-2012-parte-01/ http://www.france24.com/en/20120512-sao-paulo-fair-cements-role-latin-americas-art-mecca http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2012/05/13/340890/Fair-in.htm http://thefloodzine.com/2011/10/29/art-fake-idols/ http://www.diskursdisko.de/2011/06/mariana-monteagudo-fake-idols/ http://ahmadqatato.com/blog/mariana-monteagudo-fake-idols/ http://geyserofawesome.com/post/6905588427/one-of-mariana-monteagudos-dolls-via http://designyoutrust.com/2011/06/02/mariana-monteagudo-fake-idols/ http://www.clasor.org/2011/07/19/mariana-monteagudo/ http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/mariana+monteagudo http://vi.sualize.us/view/visuall/a060bade4820d89f8e0acc4389eca866/ http://www.zealous.co/gallery/inspirations/art/fake-idols/

2011 http://file-magazine.com/blog/mariana-monteagudo-2 http://trouvaillesdujour.blogspot.com/2011/06/mariana-monteagudo-fake-idols.html http://melissakojima.blogspot.com/2011/08/mariana-monteagudos-creepy-yet-cute-art.html http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mariana-Monteagudoas-fake-idols/1485511 http://visuall.net/2011/06/11/mariana-monteagudo-strange-dolls/

2010 exposicion espejo de Narciso http://zonatorridaycritica.blogspot.com/2010/08/mariana-monteagudo-sobre-munecos.html http://www.artserved.com/gallery/NARCISSUS-MIRROR/489146 http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/017011.php http://mocoloco.com/archives/017103.php http://trouvaillesdujour.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-magic-art-of-mariana-monteagudo.html 2009/2010 http://mocoloco.com/archives/018311.php http://file-magazine.com/blog/mariana-monteagudo

2009 http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/011260.php#more

2007 http://sinfianza-prensa.blogspot.com/2007/07/el-universal-viernes-29-de-junio-de.html http://www.artnexus.com/Notice_View.aspx?DocumentID=17986

2005 http://www.dubhecarrenogallery.com/mariana.htm

2001 http://www.artnexus.com/Notice_View.aspx?DocumentID=5183

PERSONAL WEBSITES:

http://www.marianamonteagudo.net/index.php http://www.marianamonteagudo.net/ http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mariana-M... http://www.behance.net/gallery/NARCISSUS... http://www.flickr.com/photos/21853218@N03/

UPCOMING SHOWS:

SEPTEMBER 2012: KIAF ART FAIR, KOREA. DECEMBER 2012: ART MIAMI ART FAIR 2012, MIAMI, USA

E MAIL:

marianamontelandia@gmail.com