The countryside, the mountains and the skies from her town inspired the creation . of her artwork.
“Alicia paints grazing the canvas, as memories from her home town graze her. Her figures do not describe, recount through her painings. They surprise and excite us.� (Jorge Abot)
Earth Subtlty drawn with the fire of the sunrise of a sensitive look. Song without lyrics and with a melody that scapes repeatedly from the heart. A thousand nights with their moons in the paths. An open track by the nostalgia and far away an inhabited small house that begs for a caress and an unexpected visit.
“From my soul” - 2011
(Acrílico sobre tela, 200 cm x 60 cm)
“Town I” - 2011
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“From my town, the sky” - 2014 (Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Hills” - 2016
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x100 cm)
“From the town, the painter” - 2013 (Acrilic on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm)
“From the town, the painter” - 2013 Piece of fragment (Acrilic on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm)
“Town IV” - 2013
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Town III” - 2013
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“From the canal” - 2013
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Town V” - 2013
(Mixed technique, 50 cm x 70 cm)
“From far beyond” - 2013
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Enconuter with the sky” - 2012 (Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Near the valley” - 2013
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Near the valley” - 2013 Piece of fragment (Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“From the town” - 2015
(Mixed technique, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“From the angels” - 2012
(Acrilic on canvas, 200 cm x 60 cm)
“White Towns 1” - 2016
(Mixed technique on canvas, 53 cm x 86 cm)
“White Towns 2” - 2016
(Mixed technique on canvas, 53 cm x 86 cm)
Skies A need. To feel part of nature. The horizon is the pretext, the limit between the tangible and the nothing. To look up the sky, to close my eyes and inhale the air makes me free. I turn to the heights and the distance, where I can find myself in those skies that talk so much about God.
“Risen to the skies�
(Acrilic on canvas, 200x60)
“Somewhere” - 2007
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“En un lugar”
(Acrílico sobre tela, 100x100)
“A place - 2013”
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“River down” - 2013
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“On the path” - 2007
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Light in the valley” - 2007 (Acrilic on canvas, 30 cm x 100 cm)
“Lights by the way”
(Acrilic on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm)
“From the water, the sky” - 2015 (Mixed techniques, 100 cm x 100 cm)
“Door of the valley” - 2005
(Acrilic on canvas, 100 cm x100 cm)
“Sky from Belén” - 2007
(Acrilic on canvas, 30 cm x 100 cm)
“Looking for the sky” - 2007 (Acrilic on canvas, 60 cm x 100 cm)
“Travelling” - 2008
(Acrilic on canvas, 120 cm x 60 cm)
“Encounter” - 2007
(Acrilic on canvas, 50 cm x 100 cm)
Drawings
Unnamed
(Pastel y carbรณn sobre papel, 73 cm x 46 cm)
Drawing I
(Ink on paper)
Drawing II
(Ink on paper)
Drawing III
(Ink on paper)
Drawing IV
(Ink on paper)
Drawing V
(Ink on paper)
Drawing VI
(Ink in paper)
Paper VII
(The rest – reharsing charcoal on paper)
First artworks
“Thinking of Luján”
(Oil on canvas, 50 cm x 70 cm)
“The greengrocer I”
(Oil on canvas, 80 cm x 60 cm)
“The shelf”
(Oil on canvas, 60 cm x 80 cm)
About me: Alicia paints grazing the canvas, as memories from her home town grazie her. Her look, from today, from yesterday?, is where she takes food from where she constructs her work. She looks for the silence that the paintings give for talking to us from within. Her figures do not describe, do not tell. Through her paintings she surprises and excites us. On september 2009, because of an art exposition in Madrid, Rafail Canogar, the great spanish artist, he made a revision on a catalog. He makes a reflection on the path that art took and how it looks tired and exhausted the language of the reading. In a sort of luck, he says: “I think it is high time we rescued the place of painting, to rescue the metaphysic dimension and the capacity of falling in love with it and vibrate again with the virtual space of it. Of the good painting.” “To go back some years -in fact, you never go back in a complete way- To resume the pure painting element of the pure painting, just the purityof the painting and its capacity of communicationg. An that’s it!” “But maybe it is not only about recovering the painting, but also rescuing the ethic, the trascendental, the sublime: maybe to reinvent the painting. Alicia is in the hard track, giving us her way of feeling, her poetry. Some time ago, I used to write about the Chilean artist Patricio Court, because of an exposition in Santiago: “To go back to the origin, to be more contemporary than ever, to be one and Everyone. “Because this is the path, where you are and everyone is, where the time is defeated.” “It is said: I am from here, and my desert is… where from?.. it is from every desert.” Jorge Abot
A need. To feel part of the nature. To go beyond the human limits. From the sky, everything is clearer. The horizon is the pretext, the limit between the tangible and the nothing. Hard blues that pretend to darken, end up lightening everything that I do not understand. To look up the sky for some seconds, to close the eyes and inhale, makes me free. This protects and transports me. That is my faith. I turno to the heights and the distance to see better; being able to find myself in those skyes that talk that much about God. Agustín Gonzalez “The wish of the horizon, the redention of peace, the redemption of the peace we look look for eternally. There, where the soul of the earth meets the sky as a legitimate consequence. There where the path narrows down and glances are lost.We can think that the technical qualities of the painting merges in the skies, synonyme of abundance of eternity that humans have because of the conjuction between the earth, water and air. “In those places, sometimes habitated and sometimes not, where it can only stay a simple footprint of the passage of the being. Alicia Ceballos’ artwork is where we can stop and admire the skill of a simple and agile pallette, full of freshness in a landscape without ties, just with freedom.” Analía Stellato
“Alicia Ceballos finds out in her painting the way of expresing her sensibility. Silently staying in her atelier, building an image that goes from the figure associated to the memory, to the open abstraction to the escence in the inside” She found a type of blue of her own, that started being assosiated in a symbolic way to her figure. The blues that Alicia proposes have the intensity of the changing hours of the day: with the strong light of midday,they expandtowards a yellow brightness, on the contrary, with a faint softness of dawn they subtly change to white and in the slow fall of the night they darken until they overshadow. In her landscapes there are vibrant strokes as well as sandblastings that frees multiples associations with nature. The little housing and it’s reflection, they have been structured far away from the formal rigourosity. Separating itself from reality and creating dreamy situations. The artwork ends up been wrapped in a strange poetry. Julio Sapollnik
Alicia Ceballos I was born in Córdoba, 1960. I started my painting studies in Rio Ceballos, Cñordoba. I moved to Buenos Aires and refined my skils in the atteliers of Carlos Cañas, Ernesto Pesce y Carlos Scaglione. She do clinic of artwork with Jorge Abot. -National Saloon of Platic Arts of La Plata. “La Mujer y su Protagonismo Cultural” Buenos AIres Province Government (1999) -Scambio Interculturale Italia – Argentina Circolo Canottier Napoli – Mosiglio (2000) -First exhibition of Cuban paintings, organized by Municipalidad de San Fernando and the Embassy of Cuba in Argentina (2001) -Intercultural exchange in San Fernando–Italia:“Luci, colori e forma del III Milenio” Cultural Center Borges -Art Space AMIA (Pintura con Variaciones 2007) -Collective exposition Casa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires “El agua” (2008) -Exposition in the Metropolitan Museum of Buenos Aires, “Estados de Ánimos Contemporáneos”, Asociación de Interacción ArtePsicoanálisis (2008) -Cultural Center Borges, 2007 and 2008 -XI Bienal Art Sacro 2008, organized by the Pontific Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) -1° prize of end of the year R. Van R. contemporary art 2008 -Special Mention, Colegio de Escribanos of the province of Buenos Aires, 2009 -XXXI National Saloon of paintings “Félix de Amador” 2009 -Individual exhibition organized by the Cultural Secretary of the Municipalidad of Río Ceballos, -XXVI Spring Saloon of San Fernando, Prize for artist of the city -Colective exhibition of the SAAP, Law University 2011, -“Yo creo” Galería Carla Rey (2011) -1st prize for the painting saloon 2014, Galería Raices Americanas -Prize for the artist of the city, Salón Primavera de San Fernando 2015 -Prrize M. Josefina Barra Foundation Eduardo Durini (Palacio San Souci) 2015 -Special prize ExpoArte +40 Museo Raggio 2015 -Art fair AAGA 2015 – Cultural center Borges -Special prize IX Salón de Pintura Artvilo 2016 Museo Raggio -Selección Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museum of plastic arts “Eduardo Sivori” Her artworks are part of private collections in Argetina, rance, Singapur, New York and London,
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