Bio
Irene Berzero, Rafaela, 1952.
Visual Artist
Visual artist that began her studies in the 70s at the Escuela de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Between 1982/85, she obtained a degree in Visual Arts at the Liceo Municipal of Santa Fe.
In the 90s, she attended a workshop of drawing with Hermenegildo Sábat, and Visual Foundations with Alberto Delmonte. During 2000/06 she undertook the Bachelor of Visual Arts, a postgraduate degree, at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
In 2009, she participated, with Matilde Marín as advisor, in the scholarship for group projects of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. She worked with people with moderate and profound disabilities using art. She also worked as a tertiary-level teacher at the Institute of Teaching No. 2 “Joaquín V. González”, Rafaela Argentina.
Edited publications -catalogs and books – express her interest in the theoretical study of the visual arts.
She has participated in various exhibitions, individual and collective projects from the 90s to present.
Statement
“The choice of material plays an important role in my work, it triggers the image. Paper as a sensitive and sometimes fragile element produces the sensuousness I want to transmit.”
”I also need to know about the tools, their tradition and how to handle them (in theory and manually). To have the materials specifications and supports, to work with their compositional rhythms, their shape and colour alterations.
I’ve always been interested in graphic art and drawing, engraving and above all collage.
The previous and most important steps before I start producing are gathering, hoarding and finding. Cutouts with a story and typography; newspapers, letters, envelopes, stamps, plus a huge selection of papers from different quality and colour made up a palette that has been collected for years.”
“I chose to approach colour from its own expresión and resources, no from painting as the only vehicle. Playing with the materials- sometimes spontenously sometimes in a rational way – made the experiment a permanente visual excercise”.
During the process I pay attention to the changes that happen in the course of my work that finally become a more interesting challenge.
In this stage the abstraction is shown naturally, sometimes as lyrical and gestural some others as pure geometry .
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Studies
2000/2006 Bachelor of Visual Arts, postgraduate, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
1982/1985 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Liceo Municipal de Santa Fe
1971/1973 Plastic Arts –Escuela Nacional de las Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Courses and Workshops
2014/2015 Visual Language Workshop by Silvia Della Maddalena and Analía Calvin˙ho
2008 Scholarship for group projects from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes with Matilde Marín as advisor
1999 Visual Foundations Workshop by Alberto Delmonte
1993 Drawing workshop by Hermenegildo Sábat
Individual Exhibitions
2018 Genealogy, LAVA Space of Art, Rafaela
2016 Conjugation of Grace, in Soler, CABA
2014 Reunited Papers, at AHRUS, Rafaela
2006 Imperceptible Landscapes, Municipal Cultural Center, Rafaela
2003 Dialogues and Encounters, AHRUS, Rafaela
1996 Animaladas, Café&Arte, Barking Dog, Rafaela
1991 Appointments and Appropriations, Bco Coinag, Santa Fe
1990 Drawings, Collages, Paintings, AHRUS, Rafaela
Collective exhibitions
2019 Micro Art Fair, Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas, Rosario
2016 Collective Exhibition, LAVA Space of Art, Rafaela
2015 Collective Exhibition, Mar Dulce Gallery, CABA
2013 Movidero Group, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes “Dr Urbano Poggi”, Rafaela
2012 Movidero Group, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Fe
2011 Young Legion Project, Movidero Group, Federico Klemm Foundation, CABA
2011 88 Salon de Mayo, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes “Rosa Galisteo de Rodriguez”, Santa Fe
2011 ‘The Return to the Country in 80 Printmakers’ exhibition, Irene and Oscar Pécora , National Academy of Fine Arts
Publications
2011 Personal Treaty, Color Notebook, Flanbé Edition
2007 Rose in the Rose catalogue, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes “Dr Urbano Poggi”, Rafaela
2006 Fernando Espino catalogue, Semana del Litoral organized by El Cíclope, Museo Municipal “Dr Genaro Pérez”, Córdoba
Awards
2019 2nd Acquisition Award CMPC at the 8th National Biennial. Award of Rafaela City, Anniversary Edition PATRIMONIO FULGOR, for the work: “Buscando algún remanso” – “Gesto y Geometría”