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 ART APPRECIATION COURSES- August 2009:

TEACHER: BLANCA RUTH CASANOVA

1. "Contemporary Art 2009".

2. "20th Century Art" from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

3. "Pre-Hispanic Art" from the Art Institute of Chicago.


RECENT EVENTS:

Blanca Ruth is exhibiting at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France at the Salon Exposition Nationale des Beaux Arts in December 10-13, and the Florence Biennale, at the Agora Parque Naucalli in November, at the Embassy of Argentina in Berlin, Germany and Museo Ballve, Buenos Aires, Argentina in September.

 

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France at the Salon Art Shopping- Carrousel du Louvre, June 6-7,  at Camden Art Gallery, London, England, June-July and September 2009.

Her paintings are being showed at Trevisan Gallery in Ferrara, Italy, at Erenus Gallery in Ankara, Turkey and at Galerie64 in Hendaye-Biarritz, France.

 

AWARDS:

1. " Prix Special" Salon de la Exposition dela Societé des Beaux Arts. Musee du Louvre, Paris, France. December 2009.

2. "Premio della Critica" from the Art Critic and Gallerists of  Italy at the Estense Castle International Exhibition called "Magic, The Magic Paths of Art" curated by Paola Trevisan at the Rassegna Internazionale d´Arte Contemporanea in Ferrara, Italy which took place from November 18th to November 26th, 2006 .

 3. "Premio Liteco" at the Exposición Internacional de Artes Visuales at Sala de Arte Alba in Buenos Aires, Agentina on July 11th, 2007. 

4. “Mención Especial a

La Creatividad ”. Gran Salón de Invierno, Galería Esart, Barcelona, España. 2008.

5.  "Mention of Honour" at the International Art Contest made in June 2006 by Art Interview Magazine at Gallery 24, London and Berlin, Germany.

6. "Premio de Honor" at  Salón de Verano Art i Color, Espai Cultural P.Pruna, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.

7. "Mención de Honor" at the international exhibition at Asociación Italiana, Buenos Aires, Argentina in September 2007.

 8. "Premio de Honor", Salon Perez Belfer, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2008.

9. -"Mención de Honor", Salón de Invierno, Academia Internazionalle di Lettere, Arti Science, Galería Esart, Barcelona, España. 2009.

10. "Premio de Honor", Museo Ballve, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Septiembre 2009.

 

STATEMENTS:

Blanca Ruth Casanova

 A Jewel on Canvas 

 Her last name sings of amorously and gallant attentiveness, and her artwork certainly suggests the same. The luxurious beauty of her mixed media is the magnificent melding of acrylic, enamel, and textile that often resemble a piece that may have hung on the walls of the finest treasure collectors throughout history. Calling on her strong and diverse background as a teacher, fine artist, abstract expressionist and graphic designer, Blanca Ruth Casanova has mastered many techniques while creating a sparkling canvas formula all her own. 

Upon first glance of Ms. Casanova’s work, the viewer is challenged to identify the exact method used to enliven the canvas in question. Some may initially attribute the texture to overzealous priming or purposeful acrylic textures. Yet the nimble use of color and tone with savvy application of texture and embellishments have given her pieces a splendid sensory experience, as well as an individuality loaded with atmospheric ambiance.

 

A resident of

Mexico City

, Ms. Casanova find personal connection with her pieces, calling them “intellectual and emotional reflections of my life.” In her piece “Cave”, maroon and turquoise gold-lined forms become treasures that look like they could break off into whatever shapes the wearer desires, creating immediate wearable art. The lurid “Where Am I Going?” searches for justification with crimson stained intention. Reveals Ms. Casanova, “The act of painting, creating incomplete, imperfect or perfect forms, dripping pigments and getting physically involved inside my artwork is what really motivates me.”

 

Ms. Casanova does not limit her mixed media approach to the enamel and textiles. Often, she incorporates found objects into her work, such as the lasso-catching metal and rope device, appropriately entitled “Loose Rope.” The very nature of her technique emboldens the artist to explore themes that are both mesmerizing yet explode with a tactile visual that almost manages two senses, sight and touch, into one single impression. No doubt many a surrealist would delight in the refractive takes that spill from Ms. Casanova’s imagination, such as the gloomy “Runaway” and melancholic “Flower Illusion.”

 

“My paintings are expressions of my own personal feelings and thoughts. The textures, transparencies, drippings or impastos and changes I use, are expressing events in my life and mind, as happiness, sadness, tensions, tenderness, sex, or tears,” details Ms. Casanova, who received her MBA and PhD from Oxford, England, but continues to show and reside in Mexico.

Blaise Morita, New York, 2006.


Blanca Ruth Casanova’s abstract paintings, Loose Rope and Getaway, are bold and muscular works. Fusing found objects like blue jeans and rope, and a dripping, Pollock-like painting style, these paintings are three-dimensional whirls of color and texture. They exemplify Casanova’s evident ambition to wrest paintings out of the flat, two-dimensionally bound world in which we’re used to seeing them, and to create active and daring pieces that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

.The Weight of Waiting  - Steven Levenson, 

New York .

 

Hablar de la pintura de Blanca Ruth Casanova es adentrarnos a espacios de colores y formas, donde al experimentar de manera clásica y actual aparecen texturas en las que se detectan sus estados emocionales y que expresan una diversidad de ideas y sentimientos internos para así mostrar valores y actitudes de manera inusual, con la finalidad de que pensamientos paralelos sean el contorno y la unidad de sentir siempre algo que deseamos o que no queremos percibir. En sí, la intensidad de su obra es toda una experiencia que invita a nuestros sentidos a ser parte de ella.

 Joze Martyn. Director de la Revista de Arte y Literatura Cipactli.

 

Blanca Ruth Casanova's paintings possess a mosaic-like quality in their overall design and a portraiture sensibility in their exquisite detail and introspective depth. Casanova uses color masterfully as she creates a sense of inner illumination within each work. Her color combinations suggest an intuitive understanding of the emotional response that colors can arouse in her viewers. Her color choices vary from piece to piece. Some canvases combine dynamically opposed colors, while others display a study in the subtlety of varying shades of a single color. Each piece becomes a fully realized world of its own, telling a story through texture, color and form. Blanca Ruth Casanova studied Fine Arts at the Instituto de Arte Bribiesca and Universidad de las Americas. Casanova has exhibited her work widely, with twelve solo exhibitions of her own and fifty group exhibitions. She currently lives and works in Mexico City.

Agora Gallery Soho-Chelsea New York.