NEWS of ELENA CLIMENT

Elena Climent is now preparing a series of paintings commemorating the house in Mexico City where she grew up. Now that both of her parents have died and the house will eventually be sold, she wishes to set down on canvas the memories of "a home that was somehow outside of time." This is the house where her father, Enrique Climent, "painted endlessly up there, in his studio." She writes, "throughout my growing years, I cherished my parent's house and felt a strong link to the mysterious power that impregnated every part of it, attracting me to the secret labyrinths of my origins. The house was not only a house, it was a symbol of a lost world, recreated out of distant recollections where art was of invaluable importance. It was through it that your soul could 'touch' the spiritof what had once been, and somehow let you recover some of its essence."

• Some of the paintings in this series of Memories of the House of my Father will be exhibited in Madrid by the Galería de Arte Mexicano at ARCO 96, as part ofan exhibition of Art by Mexican Women, which will subsequently travel to the Galerie Rahn, Zurich.
• Climent's work is now traveling in Latin American Woman Artists. This very popular exhibition will travel in 1996 to the Denver Art Museum and Museo de las Américas (through January 14th), the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C. (February 8 - April 29) and will be extended to a final venue at the Miami Center for the Fine Arts (June 14 - August 25).
• A work by Elena Climent, Ledgewith ex-voto, was specially created for an exhibition tracing the history of the retablo to be held at the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City from March 20 through September 15, 1996.
• mam/fa will exhibit works by Climent at Art Miami '96 (January), The Art Show '96 of the ADAA at the 7th Regiment Armory in New York City, (February) and Sanford Smith's Works on Paper (March '96), also at the 7th Regiment Armory.