Born in Valencia in 1950, Carmen Calvo studied at Escola d’Arts i Oficis and in Fine Arts, finalizing her studies in 1982. A training that she will end up avoiding along her trajectory, evidencing the disagreement with the academic paintings and being influenced by Valencia’s pop art, represented by artists like Rafael Solbes or Manolo Valdés, included in Equipo Crónica. Afterward, she lived for almost two years at Casa Velázquez of Madrid, and then, when ended her residence, in 1985, she moved to Paris through a scholarship from the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores of Spain. Finally, she returned to Valencia in 1992, where she lives and works up until now.
Her pictorial work highlights the intervention of the mud and the ceramic thanks to her interest in archaeology. This distinctive fact will be the icon of her work becoming a big contribution to international contemporary art. Later she includes the photograph in her compositions, as well as on works that go further of painting, such as interventions at public edifices. Often her pieces are full of nostalgic connotations, splitting from the fragment like an element that remits us to the conceptualization of daily life. The build-up and the repetition are present in a work that seeks to appeal to the object’s emotional content.
She excels in her participation in exhibitions in reputed places like Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Biennale de Venezia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, or Guggenheim Museum of New York.
List of artworks
Recopilación de formas , 1997
Serie paisajes , 1979
Estantería , 1990
Estantería , 1990
Sense títol , 1993
Tranquila casa, antiguas pasiones , 2000
Recopilación de formas , 1997
Sense títol , 1993
Serie paisajes , 1979
Tranquila casa, antiguas pasiones , 2000
Estantería , 1990
Press articles
1915 – 1995
Col·lecció Josep Suñol
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1970 – 2001
Josep Suñol Collection
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A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
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Dialogue between the Suñol’s Collection and the collection built up by Lleida City Council over the course of the editions of the Leandre Cristòfol Art...
Portrait: 1971-1987
Fernando Vijande
We brought together 51 artists to talk about Fernando Vijande, the gallerist who supported the work of all those who exhibited at the Galería Vandrés and the Galería...
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
Carmen Calvo
2023
Picasso Museum in Barcelona,...
Carmen Calvo. Todo procede de la sinrazón (1969-2016)
2016
Sala Alcalá 31,...
Intrusive Dialogues. Everything is the present
2021
Museu Nacional d'Art de...
New Images from Spain
1980
Guggenheim Museum, New...
Literarture
Fall 2017
This fall we take up Literarture, an activity focused in the relationship between art and...
Open days
December 2017 and January 2018
Visit for free the current exhibition at the Fundació Suñol Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 to say goodbye to 2017 and salute the new year...
Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
José Luis Alexanco and Daniel Giralt-Miracle
José Luis Alexanco —artist and coorganizer of the exhibition— and Daniel Giralt-Miracle —art critic and historian— will lead a tour visit of Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 on Monday, February...
Guided tours to Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
The Fundació Suñol organizes some commented tours for individual audience through the exhibition Fernando Vijande. Portrait:...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
Guided tours to Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
The Fundació Suñol organizes some commented tours for individual audience through the exhibition Fernando Vijande. Portrait:...
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