From 5 November - 19 December 2008, the Museo Regional "El Aguacate” in Durango, Mexico, will host the acclaimed Dutch artist’s, Jackie Sleper, touring exhibition "Dulce y Amargo" aggressive by, and committed to, Mexico and the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and curated by Matty Roca.
Jackie Sleper, the champ of the area “Sculpture and Installation” at the Florence Biennale 2007, has consistently been absorbed by Mexico and the artisan Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a abstruse account and so, if she accustomed an action from Matty Roca to characterize her eyes of Mexico she readily accepted. Over the advance of the afterward two years, Jackie Sleper spent abounding months in situ, about which she says “I took in aggregate about me, batten with lots of humans and, in particular, got a faculty of the country. My antecedent adulation of Mexico alone grew stronger."
Her works are at times evocative of a array of artists: Rivera, Orozco, Tamayo and Pollock. Jackie Sleper assumes complete abandon in applying assorted techniques and introducing beginning elements: her plan is characterised by combinations of photography and painting, and the use of alloyed media. In accession to painting, Jackie aswell creates altar application a array of materials, which she again transforms into wholly a new and hasty entity, such a the admirable and fun area “Rocatizada”, committed to her babysitter Matty Roca. The artisan added works to be guided by a abstruse faculty of humanity, and she is an artisan in the truest faculty of the word, her plan has consistently been ashore in her analysis of the animal actuality and its significance. The art critic, Wim Van der Beek said about Jackie’s plan above-mentioned to her 2007 Netherlands exhibition: “Jackie Sleper’s aim is not to shock, but to accomplish things actual and manageable. She does not ambition to aggrandize injustices, but to action solutions in the anatomy of absolute and beatnik means of seeing.”
The Durango appearance is the fourth and endure footfall in 2008 of Jackie’s touring exhibition and she is captivated to be captivation in a city-limits which she feels has a abutting hotlink with her own home boondocks of Utrecht. The museum, "El Aguacate”, is accepted by this name Aguacate, or avocado, due to the avocado timberline buried in the garden. It is one of the a lot of admirable barrio in the city-limits centre, complete in 1890 and was the abode of the ancestors of Francisco Gomez Palacio, son of the acclaimed governor.
Jackie’s exhibitions assuming throughout Mexico in 2008 and 2009 are all accepting curated by Matty Roca, art historian, building babysitter and art critic. They accept so far been a huge success, the aboriginal was captivated at the Museo de la Cultura Maya in Chetumal in March and April of this year, in May-June at the Museo de la Isla in Cozumel, and a lot of afresh at the Museum of Modern Art of Gómez Palacio in July and August.
The artisan will, as always, be present at the vernissage of "Dulce y Amargo" on 5 November, at the Museo El Aguacate, alternating with important bounded personalities from the political, cultural and educational arena in Mexico and from the Dutch and European communities active in the accompaniment of Durango.
Jackie Sleper was complete in Amsterdam and advised at the Utrecht Academy for Visual Arts. Between 1988 and 1995 she spent time in Ireland, Spain and Prague for abstraction purposes. Works produced in her home country, the Netherlands, cover a asphalt plateau in honour of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, commissioned by the city of Utrecht, and ‘light objects’ for the Kruisheren Hotel, a architecture enactment that opened in Maastricht in 2005. Outside the Netherlands, she has apparent in Antwerp (Art-Event), Stockholm (Art Fair), Marbella (Marb Art – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo), Geneva (Europ’Art), Klagenfurt (Biennale Austria), Salzburg (Mozart Festival), Florence (Museo Diocesano and Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea), Milan (Studio D’Ars), New York (Carrozzini Von Buhler Gallery and CVB Space), and in Mexico. One of her sculptures, "Modestia", was apparent during the Venice Biennale, at Open 2007. She won the 1st cost for “Sculpture and Installation” at the Florence Biennale 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Jackie Sleper
website: http://www.jackiesleper.com
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You can aswell see images of Jackie’s art at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dulceyamargo
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It will be accessible to chase the assorted stages of “Dulce y Amargo” acknowledgment to the advice and images that will be acquaint on www.dulceyamargo.com.
Visitors to Jackie’s exhibitions in Mexico can aswell upload photos taken during the exhibitions on Flickr and allotment them with http://www.flickr.com/groups/dulceyamargo
At the end of the exhibition series, the authors of the three photos that Jackie brand most, will anniversary accept a active bite of one of her works.
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