AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY CECILIA MENDÉZ CASARIEGO
Cenizas y Diamantes Series
The artist's works take the human body to address universal problems linked to identity, vulnerability, and transformation. The artworks are inspired by photographs from newspapers and magazines and are made with household materials such as aluminum foil, sulphite, cotton, and cold porcelain in order to create access to collective memory. The artist makes a personal reading of today's society through the chosen images, she observes humanity, its behaviors, and problems. The bodies exhibited in her work relate that the human condition that manifests itself, that claims for others, then they join each other and become one. Both in paintings and sculptures, these bodies go through a process of transmutation. They are covered, diluted, faded, covered, and wrapped over the bodily appearance. Finally, from this transformation, the artist creates her own mythology.
CECILIA MENDÉZ CASARIEGO
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Cecilia Méndez Casariego, is a visual artist and educator. Cecilia studied at the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts, where she earned her degree as a National Drawing Teacher (2002) and Visual Arts Professor (2005). Her training includes a drawing workshop with Marcia Schvartz at Ernesto de la Cárcova and ongoing mentorships with Sergio Bazán and Silvia Gurfein. In 2013, she was selected to participate in the Buenos Aires Youth Art Biennial, and in 2017, she took part in the IV Performance Research Conference on Anthropology of the Body at the Paco Urondo Cultural Center. Méndez Casariego has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, with notable shows including "Los Mareados" at Fundación Cazadores (2021), "Universos cerca" at Casa del Bicentenario (2020), and "Acto" at Galería Elsi del Río (2019) . Her work has been showcased at prestigious venues such as Centro Cultural Recoleta, Fundación Osde, and internationally at Mito Arte Contemporáneo in Uruguay.