Art from women’s point of view
These are post-feminist times indeed. To name an exhibition composed of sculptures by four women “A Woman’s Touch” would have, until rather recently, unleashed the furies.
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Four female sculptors – four regions – four media
CLAY. GLASS. PAPER. WOOD. Not exactly conventional sculpting materials, but they are the media of choice for four Latin-American female artists — Margarita Checa, Isabel de Obaldia, Susana Espinosa and Patricia W
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MARGARITA CHECA: THE LONGING OF MYTH
Margarita Checa receives us in her flat in Barranco, filled at the moment with the fourteen wood and bronze sculptures that form the show at Lucia de la Puente gallery, “The Doors of Perception.” Its images—mostly children and adolescents with distraught faces—are lent great expressivity by their immobility, and paradoxically, by the near-absence of their […]
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Art from women’s point of view
An exhibition of work by fourfemale sculptors demonstratespower in various media.
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Art Critic Carlos Rodriguez Saavedra
The 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 […]
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03/Oct/2004 Yearn for the myth
If something is evident in Margarita Checa’s masterpieces, are the symbols: nudes of tangible sense in her life
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02/Oct/2004 Yearn for the myth
Margarita Checa welcomes us in her department in Barranco, surrounded by the fourteen sculptures made of wood and bronze of her current exhibition “The Doors of Perception” at the Lucia de la Puente Gallery. Her art pieces – most of them including silhouettes of teenagers and children with contorted faces – are filled with great […]
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28/Sep/2004 MARGARITA CHECA’S DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Let’s put it simple: there is a still ingredient in the style, in the curves, in the generous form – in the work of the sculptor Margarita Checa – that makes us ponder over the development of life. A frequency in this exhibition of couples, of animals that at a certain point she blends into one single being.
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