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SPACE TO INTEGRAL ART
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Nancy Urosa Salazar
Born in Caracas , Venezuela on 25th of September1960
Her training an artist has taken her through a wide variety of artistic disciplines:plastic arts, music,photography, design, video and theater
She has taken courses in plastic arts at the Cristobal Rojas School of Visual Arts, Newman Institute for Design, Federico Brandt School of Arts; music at the Jos� Angel Lamas School of Music, and the Sim�n Bol�var Conservatory
movies at the School of Movies and Television and licence in Art of the Universidad Central de Venezuela
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BARRO LUDICO
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Barro Ludico is an attempt to approximate ourselves to a ritual universe, in which a wide array of discursive elements and technical resources intervene.
This project was engendered in a search to understand all of the analogies of symbols, names and colors present in a low profile design engraved in terra cotta
Tiles, in a manner like a giant checker board with an array of tracks.
I had a dream with an barefooted spectator that orientates itself recognizing the chips, according to with its general enlightenment, finding and associating them, absorving information and energy for being on top of the board. According to the (chamanes)l this is called the center of Power.
The capacity to play a game, defines the (ludic) behavior, from placing the tiles in the floor and constructing the puzzle, to the graphic enjoinment in reproducing photocopies and photos to compose a fragmented reality on several supports. Its like a game that allows
Me as an artist to play in the physical creative process, and I leave to the observer,
To figure out how to play the game, to confront and perceive , to give itself to the space and to allow that the esthetic of the work be displayed.
The art is a game above all, where the artist must be bold and ingenious in proposing it,
The project must be unique as well as the experience in making it. I believe that this is the difference between craftsmanship and ant. It is the connection between the apparent, the real and the hidden, It is the seriousness of a child�s games, rationalized and organized in different languages that have been formalized in distinct poetical media
These media, where the virtuality of reality manifests itself , it materializes the concept of photocopying the space, and this can be accomplished in a way, by photocopying each. tile that jointly compose a 39.3x39.3 ft floor checker board. The confrontation: original and copy still exist, but the photocopied object is the base, then I transfer the space and time into the bi-dimensional plane of a canvas. In addition, the making a giant photocopy using a machine that is limited to make reproductions of' 8.5 x 11 inch as the largest copies
This possible limitation is where I would like to center the spectator. The photocopy is a contemporary media to elaborate (more than copying) images, to make art.
To me, it results in an immediate graphic media... followed by the emotion...Then I resort to paint with conventional tools of the plastic artist, and gestate like a fingerprint of the uncontrolled act by rationality, seals the completion of the work.
The checkers materialize in the gestation, the dichotomic matches into 5 transcendental dichotomies: Matter/Spirit, God/Man, Civilization/ Nature, Male/Female and Mind/Body . The assigned contents in each of the chips was carefully pondered, attempting to define a concept for each individual square on the board. These concepts I have define personally. Perhaps these checkers will result in explicitly (ludicos), since its reference is a chess and checker board.
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EXHIBITIONS
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Individual Expositions:
1997- PANAL. Hall of Cecilio Acosta Library. Los Teques . Miranda State. Venezuela
1997- BARRO LUDICO. Cecilio Acosta Art Museum. San Diego. Miranda State. Venezuela
1996-1997- BARRO LUDICO. Contemporary Art Gallerie Tito Salas. Petare. Caracas. Venezuela
1996- END OF A PROCESS, Alberto Arvelo Museum, Barinas, Barinas State.Venezuela
1995- END OF A PROCESS, Juan Felix S�nchez Culture �s House. M�rida. M�rida State. Venezuela.
1995- THE PROCESS OF PHOTOCOPY-PAINTING, The Open Space Ambulant Gallery, Los Caobos
Park.Caracas, Venezuela.
1986- THE PROCESS OF PHOTOCOPY-PAINTING, The Open Space Ambulant Gallery, Plaza Venezucls
Caracas. Venezuela
1984- THE OPEN SPACE Ambulant Gallery, Plaza Venezuela, Caracas. Venezuela
1980- AGAINS THE CULTURE OF THE APPLE, Ocre Gallery, Painting, Performance and Adaptation, Cararacas.
1980- AGAINST THE CULTURE OF THE APPLE, The Maraven Cultural Association, Painting and Performance,
Caracas.
1979- ENCOUNTERS, McKinley Foundation, Universily of Illinois, ( Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.)
Group Exposition:
1999- Us. La Cuadra, Cultural Center. Caracas.
1998- The One Hall of the Art School . Univercity Gallery. UCV. Caracas
1998- The Image Variation. The Calid Space Gallery.Ateneo de Caracas.
1998- A vision to the Orient from the Occident. PANAL. The Venezuelan Institute of Cientific Invetigati�n .
IVIC.Pipe. Miranda State.
1998- Biennal of Engrave Luisa Palacios. Corp BanK. Caracas
1994-1995 VII Biennal of Drawing of Caracas, Alejandro Otero Museum .Caracas.
1994- The Miniature Graphic Hall, Caracas.
1994- West Hall of Art. The Engineer Association, Caracas, Venezuela
1994- Valeriaa, an alternative to continue alive. Open Spaces, Ateneo de Caracas.
1989- The Armando Reveron National Art Hall, Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas.
1987- The Art Hall, State of Aragua, Museum of Modern Art, Maracay, Venezuela
1987- IV Exhibit of Miniature Graphics, Caracas.
1985- III Annual Art Exhibit, Santa Mar�a University, Caracas .
1984- The Found Space. Ambulant Gallery, Sculptures by Pedro Simmons and painting by Nancy Urosa,
PlazaVenezuela, Caracas.
1983- National Critobal Rojas Paint Exhibit, Dorado Country Club , Miranda State, Venezucla.
1983- Five Young Painters :� Art Gallery of the University Pedagogic Institute of Caracas
1980~From All to All: Enviromental Adaptation 2, Sarria :Center of Integral Art, CONAC, Caracas.Venezuele.
1980-For an Image of Man. Art Museum M�rida. An invitation and integration with the works of Elda
Cerrato.M�rida State
1980-For an Image of Man Euroamerican Gallery. An invitation and integration with the works of Elda
Cerrato.Caracas
1979-The Art School. UCV. Central University of Venezuela
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