Tuesday 9 May 2017 to Monday 15 May 2017
FACES 3 - SOLO SHOW Carla QUEREJETA ROCA
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Born in 1979 in Pamplona (Spain). She lives and works in Paris. In 2002 she graduated from Fine Arts 5 years Degree by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Several individual exhibitions in Spain and abroad (France, Maroc...).
Carla is a smiling and beautiful person at dinner and when she walks in the street of Paris. But when she speaks of her Art, she become extremely passionate and energetic, so it was clear I had to visit her « studio ». Just few hundreds meters from the gallery, the studio is indeed one of the nicest apartment of the 7th quarter of Paris, over looking the garden of the Prime Minister. But when you are there, you cannot look at the window, the art is magnetising. Full of colours, with innovative ways to create volumes outside of the canvas, the works of Carla, especially the most recents, are strong and beautiful.
This technique has come step by step and is the fruit of accumulated frustrations. Carla wanted the Art to be alive, to explode of colours from 2D canvas but in a long lasting and joyful way. The artist use intense colours and raw materials, thus layer by layer, on wood or linen, the life of the landscape is back and you can feel it from any way you look at the painting sculpture. As she masters it more and more, she is going bigger and she can adapt to any collector wall or even room from a 360 perspective. Please come and you will realise how powerful her work is. Don’t forget she can also do commissions!
Bertrand Scholler March 2017
