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Her paintings... note with tenderness the way even the poorest Mexicans beautify their surroundings with improvised decorations, such as vases made out of Coke bottles wrapped in used gift paper or old cans recycled as flower pots. ...The Mexican-born daughter of two non-Mexican parents, Climent has the sharpened perceptions of an outsider. For the last four years she has lived in New York. Although she may claim to reject nostalgia, her work's emotional intensity has as much to do with memory as with immediate sensation; she is impelled in part by a sense of separation and longing. Hayden Herrera, Art in America, 1992 |
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Elena Climent was born in Mexico City in 1955, the daughter of the Spanish artist Enrique Climent. She took art classes in Mexico City, Valencia and Barcelona, but is fundamentally self-taught. In 1972 she had her first exhibition in Mexico City and in 1988 she had a solo show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Since 1992 she has been represented by Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art in New York and the Galería GAM (formerly the Galería de Arte Mexicano) in Mexico City. |
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1997 To My Parents, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York 1995 Re-encounters, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York 1993 Elena Climent, En Busca del Presente, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City 1992 Elena Climent, In Search of the Present, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York 1988 Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 1983 Galería el Grillo y el Oso, Mexico City 1982 Galería Metropolitana, Mexico City 1978 Galería San Angel, Mexico City 1977 Galería Helen Lavista, Mexico City 1976 Galería Casa de las Campanas, Cuernavaca, Mexico 1972 Galería Helen Lavista, Mexico City |
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1996-97 Salon de Triumfadores: 30 Años de Arte Joven, Museo de Aguascalientes, Mexico. (This exhibition traveled to : Foro de Arte y Cultura, Guadalajara; Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, Mexico City; Museo de Historia Mexicana, Monterrey) 1996-97 Lazos y Nexus: The Legacy of María Izquierdo, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago 1996 Innata Natura: Pintura Mexicana Contemporánea, Feria Arco, Madrid, organized by Galería del Arte Mexicano, Mexico City. (This exhibition traveled to Galerie Rahn, Zurich) 1995-96 Espíritu, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California 1995 Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, Milwaukee Art Museum (This exhibition is traveled to the Phoenix Art Museum; The Denver Art Museum; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; and the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami) 1994 Paper Visions V, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT 1994 Miradas Femininas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1994 Art Miami '94, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami 1993 Regards de femmes (As part of the Europalia Biennial '93 ), Musee d'Art Moderne, Liege (Belgium) 1992 Contemporary Museum, San Diego 1991 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1991 The Earth Itself (Part I of Mexico: Thirty Centuries Later ), Parallel Project Gallery, Santa Monica 1991 La Mujer en México, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, and Museo de Monterrey 1990 Women in Mexico, National Academy of Design, New York 1989 Current Arrivals, New York, MOCHA 1988 Latin American Group Show, Chicago, Nicole Gallery 1984 Bienal de Dibujo, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 1984 Galería Metropolitana, Mexico City 1980 Galería San Angel, Mexico City 1974 Galería Helen Lavista, Mexico City |
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Herrera, Hayden, "Elena Climent." To My Parents, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, 1997 Sullivan, Edward, Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century, London, 1996, p. 11 Lozano, Luis-Martin, "Innaata Natura: del la Figuración en la Pintura Mexicana Contemporánea." Innata Natura: Pintura Contemporánea Mexicana. Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, 1996 Emerich, Luis Carlos. Espíritu. California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, 1995, p. 29 Lowe, Sarah M. "Ordering Objects: Acts of Time." Re-encounters. Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, 1995 Schneider Enriquez, M. "The Persistence of Mexico," ARTnews (April 1995), p.133, illus. Biller, J., Smith D., et al. "Elena Climent," Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995. Exh. cat. Milwaukee Art Museum (1995), pp.156 157, illus. Page, Amy. "Brash New World," Art & Auction (Jan.1995), p.83, illus. Ray-Jones, Anna. "Exhibitions-New Art from Latin America," Art and Design , London (1994) pp. x-xi. Tibol, Raquel. "Lo Humilde como identidad," Proceso (February 1, 1993), p. 52, illus. Green, Jerald R. "Elena Climent--Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art," Latin American Art , vol. 4, no.2 (1993), p.74 Martin, C.P. "A New Mexican Wave," The Regent Magazine (51st Issue, 1993), pp.70-73, illus. Elizondo, Salvador. Elena Climent una artista interesante. (May 1992) Exh. cat., Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F., Jan.-Feb., 1993 Sullivan, Edward. Elena Climent In Search of the Present Exh. cat., Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, 1992 Herrera, Hayden. "Elena Climent at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art," Art in America (October 1992), p.151, illus. Ruy Sanchez, Alberto. "Una Mosca en el Arcoiris," Artes de Mexico (Spring 1991), pp.23-24 (editorial), illus. Ortiz Monasterio, P. and J. Riestra, eds. New Moments in Mexican Art/Nuevos momentos en el arte mexicano . New York: Parallel Project; Madrid: Turner Libros, 1990 Sullivan, E., Nochlin L., et al. La Mujer en Mexico/Women in Mexico . Exh. cat., The National Academy of Design, New York; Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Museo de Monterrey, 1990-1991, pp. xci-xciii and pp. 68-71, illus. Saavedra, M. Elena Climent Flor de asfalto . Exh.cat., Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, 1988 Torres Martinez, José. Elena Climent El tiempo detenido . Exh. cat., Galería Metropolitana, Mexico City, 1982 |
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Altar de muertos con familiares, 1991 |
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