Carmen Calvo

ARTISTA INCLASIFICABLE, ÚNICA, CREADORA DE UN LENGUAJE POÉTICO PROPIO Y DE UN UNIVERSO PLÁSTICO INQUIETANTE Y SORPRENDENTE.

Carmen Calvo (Valencia, 1950) is an artist difficult to categorize, although his experimental in nature, and their tendency to merge techniques, media, and the media will link with the ideas of surreal. Influenced by texts of thinkers and poets such as Braun, Pessoa, Eluard, Rimbaud, Lorca and Buñuel and nourished both by the images that are part of our visual memory as one's own the History of Art, Carmen Calvo produces a work that examines, questions and interrogate the various forms of behavior and relationship of the human being. The end result is a work visually stunning –lush and baroque a few times, neat and minimalist, other, poetic and incisive forever, able to transmit a calculated lack of definition in the spectator, who will continue to nurture and processed inside the feelings, emotions, and ideas generated by their works.

Biography

  • Carmen Calvo

    1976

    Gallery Temps, Valencia. 

    1977

    Galeria Buades, Madrid. 

    1978

    Gallery Yerba, Murcia. 

    1979

    Gallery Vandrés, Madrid. 

    1982

    Theo Gallery, Valencia.

    1984

    Miguel Marcos Gallery, Zaragoza.Theo Gallery, Valencia.

    1985

    Theo Gallery, Valencia.
    Museum Cas Natal Jovellanos, Gijón.
    Casa Municipal de Cultura, Avilés. 

    1987

    Gallery Gamarra and Garrigues, Madrid.

    1988

    Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia.
    Gallery Pelayo, Palma de Mallorca.
    Gallery Michael Dunev, San Francisco.

    1989

    Gallery Gamarra and Garrigues, Madrid. 

    1990

    Gallery Windsor Kulturgintza, Bilbao.
    Gallery Parameter, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
    Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
    Gallery Fandos, Valencia.
    Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona.
    IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia. 

    1992

    Espais, Centre d'art Contemporani, Girona.
    Monastery of Veruela, Zaragoza. 

    1993

    Palau dels Scala. Diputació de València.
    Galería Carles Taché. Barcelona. 

    1994

    Culture room Carlos III, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, spain. [c]
    Gallery Gamarra and Garrigues, Madrid.

    1995

    Gallery Francesc Machado, Girona.
    Gallery Thessa Herold, Paris.
    Gallery Pelayo, Palma de Mallorca.

    1996

    Gallery Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza.
    Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia.
    Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño.
    Altxerri Gallery, San Sebastián.
    Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona.

    1997

    Gallery SCQ, Santiago de Compostela.
    Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
    Room Robayera, Ayuntamiento de Miengo, Cantabria.
    XLVII Venice Biennale, The flag of Spain. Joan Brossa and Carmen Calvo. 
    The Mysterious House of Carmen Calvo, Fischer Gallery, University Of Southern California. Los Angeles.
    Traces of the Existence, Diputación de Málaga.
    Displacement: seven artists, valencian, MIE Prefectural Art Museum, Japan. [c]

    1998

    The Mysterious House of Carmen CalvoGalería Salvador Díaz, Madrid, Galería Fernando Silio, Santander; CulturalCenter, Chicago. Illinois; Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico CITY; Museum of Modern Art, Montevideo, Uruguay [c]; Gallery Thessa Herold, Paris [c]; Caixa Galicia, a Cultural Center, A Coruña
    Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, 
    Consortium of Museums of Comunitat Valenciana. 

    1999

    Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto.
    Caixa Galicia, the Cultural Centre of Vigo.
    Gallery Alice Pauli, Lausanne. Switzerland.
    Gallery Academy Residenz, Salzburg. Austria.
    Palacio de Revillagigedo, Asturias.
    Gallery Of The Museum, Caracas.
    Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia Ímber, Caracas. Venezuela. Ministry of Culture, Education and Science, Valencia.
    ThoughtsPavilion , the Mixed of the Citadel of Pamplona, Navarra, spain. 

    2000

    Galería Ramis Barquet, New York.
    Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy).
    The magic lantern, OMR gallery, Mexico DF.

    2001

    Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia.
    Galerie d'art La Palma 12m, Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona.
    Gallery Trinta, Santiago de Compostela.
    Carmen Calvo, Room Culture García Castañón, Pamplona. 

    2002

    Carmen Calvo, Exhibition hall Mauro Muriedas, Torrelavega.
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid.
    Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris.
    Gallery The Ladder, Basin.

    2003

    Gallery Academy, Mario Mauroner, Salzburg (Austria).
    La Caixa Foundation, Tarragona.
    Gallery Colon XVI, Bilbao. 

    2004

    Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona.
    Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
    Gallery Guy Bärtschi, Geneva (Switzerland).
    Altxerri Gallery, San Sebastián. 

    2005

    Spanish art to the Outside, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperation, Centre PasquArt, Biel-Bienne (Switzerland).
    TWENTY-first century. Art in the Cathedral, Burgos.
    Empathy, Museum, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Cairo (Egypt).
    Gallery SCQ, Santiago de Compostela.
    Empathy, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts. Amman (Jordan).
    Characters through the mirror, Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid. 

    2006

    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco BraunCenter of Arabic Culture, of Mezzeh, Damascus (Syria). 
    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco Braun, Exhibition hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts, université Saint Esprit de Kaslik, Beirut (Lebanon).
    Arco’06, Feria de Madrid, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I. Stand Daily The World.
    Museum of Contemporary Art at the Centre Drago do Mar, Fortaleza (Brazil). SEACEX.
    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco Braun, Exhibition hall Instituto Cervantes, Fez (Morocco). 
    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco Braun, Exhibition hall of the Cervantes Institute, Tetouan (Morocco).
    To Colleccionadora Memory, Museuafrobrasil, Sao Paulo (Brazil). SEACEX.
    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco Braun, Exhibition Hall of the Cervantes Institute, Tangier (Morocco).
    Carmen Calvo vs. Francisco Braun, Room Exhibition at the Cervantes Institute in Casablanca (Morocco). 

    2007

    Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona.
    Michael Dunev Art Projects, Torroella de Montgrí (Girona).
    The Maison Imaginare, Musée L'hôtel Des Arts, Toulon (France).
    Carmen Calvo, IVAM, Valencia.
    Gallery Patrice Trigano, Paris (France).
    Altxerri Gallery, San Sebastián.

    2008

    Gallery Mario Mauroner, Vienna.
    Art Gallery Lounge, Lisbon.
    Whiteboards BizarreThe school of Arts and Crafts, Logroño.

    2009

    Man Potato, Garden Botànic de la Universitat de Valencia.
    Gallery SCQ, Santiago de Compostela.

    2010

    Calvo & Francis Braun, VIé Poetry Festival dOliva Valencia, exhibition Hall of Museum of Ethnological Oliva, Valencia.
    CharactersGallery Altxerri, San Sebastian.

    2011

    ScènesGalería Joan Prats, Barcelona.
    Room Century Unicaja, Malaga, Cadiz, Ronda. [c]
    Carmen Calvo: Double or NothingGalería Rayuela, Madrid. [c]
    Gallery Michel Dunev, Torrodella of Montgri, Girona.
    Gallery Guy Bärtschi, Geneva (Switzerland).

    2012

    Cervantes Institute, Bordeaux (France).
    Aesthetics of discouragementGallery Benlliure, Valencia.
    Carmen Calvo. Dibuixos originals les il·lustracions of the book of the Season d'òpera 2012-2013, editat per l Associació amics del LiceuGalería Joan Prats – Artgràfic, Barcelona. 

     

     

    2013

    Carmen Calvo. What has felt has been what has been experienced, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Basin. [c]
    Carmen Calvo. What has felt has been what has been experienced, Museum of the Found Object, San Clemente, Cuenca, spain.
    The book of a musical box openFly , Feather, Madrid.
    The Feast of the spiderGallery Fernández-Braso, Madrid.
    Anonymous and improperGallery Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain.
    Collections of FacesGalería Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
    The tenth day of each month...Flying Feather Ediciones, Madrid.

     

    2014

    All the shadows that the eye accepts, Centre de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Madrid. 
    To remain registered, Gallery ArtLounge, Lisbon, Portugal.
    A cage to livePalacio de Molina, Cartagena.
    Looking for what is lost, Centre of Contemporary Photography Bilbao / Bilbao Aragazki Garaikideko Zentroa, Bilbao. 

     

    2016

    Les opéras de Carmen Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris.
    All proceeds from the no reason, Sala Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
    L Histoire d'une de mes foliesGalerie Art Bártschi & Cie, Geneva.

     

    2017

    Record of human experiences, Gallery MAM Mario Mauroner, Vienna.
    Palace of the Aljaferia, venue of the Courts of Aragon, Zaragoza.
    Dreams of nothing, Altxerri Gallery, San Sebastián.
    The peversión the look, Modern Times, Madrid.
    Goldfish on the roofAna Serratosa, Valencia. 

     

    2018

    Stillness and vertigo, PhotoEspaña – Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, Spain.
    Nature forswearsGallery Fernández-Braso, Madrid.

     

    2019

    Carmen Calvo, Ametsa akabatzea – Killing the dream ( 1969 – 2019 ) To a dictionary of Carmen Calvo, KUBO – KUTSA, Donostia, San Sebastian.
    AbsentGallery Added, Donostia, San Sebastian.
    Carmen Calvo, Taboo and intimacy, The Cervantes institute in Vienna and Gallery Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Vienna.
    Spring Literary Reading in Self-Defense, Bookstore R. Llull, Valencia.
    Photo Spain, Museum Gargallo, Zaragoza.
    Neither You, Nor I, gallery Added, Donostia / San Sebastian.
    The lonely spelling, Gallery Modern Times. Madrid.
    And the other side longs, Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Seville.

     

    2020

    Sleep of reason, Sala Kubo Kutxa, San Sebastián, San Sebastian. 
    Carmen Calvo - Juan Luis Arsuaga, 
    CNIO Art, Madrid.
    Carmen Calvo.
     Club Matador. Madrid. 

     

    INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS ON LINE


    An Art Work a Day.... #03 Carmen Calvo. Everything that I love. Gallery Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna March.
    Carmen Calvo, says a work. Gallery Fernandez-Braso, Madrid.
    Weekend for the art, Gallery Modern Times, Madrid.
    New canons between sculpture and Architecture, Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
    Exclusivel and Online. Stories Intimate, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia.
    Online Edition Arc LisbonGallery Fernandez-Braso, Madrid - Lisbon.
    Arc Lisbon, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto.
     

     

    2022

    A Cage to live inGalerie DIEHL,Berlin, video. 
    The need to confirm the reality, Modern Times, Madrid.
    He started very casual, Gallery Trinta, Santiago de Compostela

Exhibitions

Catalogs

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