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By Karla Jimenez Comrie Kjimenezrensa.com Margarita Checa’s sculptures have the power to deeply touch every one of their spectators. The delicacy of their lines and the realism of their expressions stand out as attributes that only few sculptors attain to convey through their work. This is how the 25-year-old-experience Peruvian artist manages to capture in […]
More“The Warrior.” This is what Margarita Checa has named one her most beautiful pieces. That is how she appears, when
MoreIt used to be more common to speak of male sculptors than of female sculptors. However, in recent decades this reality has been reversed: women are carrying the torch in the duty of making art with stone, marble, metal and wood. Margarita Checa is one of them. Trained at the Catholic University, the artist had […]
MoreThe history of art is an endless tapestry of creations, break offs, and assimilations. It is a fabric of significant forms, whose evolution and progress over the centuries depicts and conveys the spirit of each culture. And over its course and through its images, it also presents and expresses, in an aesthetic fashion, the riddles […]
MoreOlive wood has a tender perfume. Its scent is so delicate that one can be next to a finished work piece, and remain unaware of the particular atmosphere that it is so created. As if the log’s soul travels away from its own timber. Sculptor Margarita Checa works mostly with polished olive wood however she […]
MoreAfter putting on exhibitions in Panama, and Atlanta (Georgia, United States), where she also conducted workshops on bronze sculptures
MoreTHE ESSENCE Of THE HUMAN PRESENCE LS Captured in Margarita Checa’s melancholy and sensuously provocative sculptures. Haunted by psychological and emotional undertones that are communicated through the decidedly physical and organic nature of wood or richly worked surfaces captured in brome, her figures have a unique and expressive power. Reminiscent of indigenous peoples and ancient […]
MoreMy work comes to be for me a conductive thread of life, a self-portrait, that which touches me from outside and has resonance within me. This is always my first impulse. If the beginning of marquetry in my work arose on account of a Chancay cuchimilco [an indigenous Andean figurine], its resemblance in intention […]
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