The exhibition opens June 8th.
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| Begona Rentero, No. 4. Acrylic on canvas |
Offering a leisurely stroll through
our extensive online shop, artist
Begoña Rentero
takes us on a
journey through her home of
Granada, Spain, sharing broad vistas
and intimate snapshots of such landmarks
as the Alhambra palace,
gardens, and fountains.
Well known for her magical paper jewelry, here Ms. Rentero shows her
Well known for her magical paper jewelry, here Ms. Rentero shows her
command of two-dimensional artwork,
created in her recognizable vivid colors
and bold strokes, delicate turns and
misty reflections. Equally, her work
displays
an intense love for her hometown and its luscious environs, capturing
both its
vibrant energy and pools of solitude and contemplation.
Begoña
Rentero was born in Granada, Spain. She has traveled widely, living
in
places like Madrid, Malaga, Marbella, Seville, Albacete and Granada itself.
She
studied art and jewelry at The Madrid School of Art, and Interior Architecture
in Granada. She grew up in a family that had a profound respect for
nature and
the environment. These early influences developed into a passion for
organic
forms, color and movement inspired by nature. Begoña later
translated this
passion into a unique jewelry collection, whose colors and
organic shapes of
flora and sea fauna inspire her hand-made, exquisitely
crafted jewelry.
Her work, which is shown in various museums and art galleries in Europe and
Her work, which is shown in various museums and art galleries in Europe and
the
USA, has maintained a certain constant throughout her career; that is,
the
importance of the use of paper, color and the balance of forms based in
reality:
Her involvement with paper, as seen in her jewelry, also comes
through in her
paintings, in which paper has been a constant medium used in her
creations,
considering its docility or ease of use, simplicity and lightness,
its capacity to
absorb colors . One can see that all her creations are
characterized by fantasy,
delicate, organic aesthetic, with a touch of
glamour. Begona believes that
life is better with a spoonful of sugar!
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| Begona Rentero, No. 14. Mixed media on paper |
Excerpts from comments on the Exhibition:
Granada is a city of intense contrasts that glow
against whitewashed walls,
a universe of life among gardens, alley ways,
fountains, reminiscences….
It is the radiant light of nothingness and the
colour that flows from it, that
moistens, resists and languishes; and always
the white of origin, the ritual
white of the primer that extends under the sun.
Begoña Rentero is aware of the plasticity of light
that must be decomposed
in order to create the world. In her visual art, sensuality and illusion go
hand
in hand: the colourful tint that inhabit spaces, the forms, and the
illusion that
seems to float over mirrors. The artist wants to influence this
colourist offering,
releasing the limits of the gaze and introducing a note of
slight transience.
The artist has chosen water and oil pigments as two
routes of initiation. Water
is the soul of Granada. Her brush scatters water
and ink with amazing drive,
spontaneous emotion and intuition nurtured from the
eye, the gaze, and moves
the hand like a witness giving testimony to
astonishment. The overflowing
colour navigates the white of paper leaving
organic steles making Begoña’s
whites as dramatic as the colour that nourishes
them… In her oil paintings,
there is also vast clarity, which is at once depth and
not, opening
reflecting grooves under enamel brushstrokes. Inevitably, they
transport us to remote impressionist aspirations….
From her intimate experience with this magical
environment, she invites us
to a shared enjoyment, because Begoña Rentero has
profoundly penetrated the
rhythm, the passing aura of the orchestration. The
scenery is of water and sky,
of cypresses that rise to sink their roots in
their own reflection, on earthy
paths and lustful fountains. It is in the
melancholic pulse of the southern
afternoons, along the lonely streets where
one feels a placid remoteness.
Illusion, mirror, dream and voluptuousness. In these works of art, there
are always basic
elements for the delight and joy of living, as if we were
contemplating an
imaginary city for the very first time that we would
have already visited in
our dreams. That fleeting vision still shines.
~ Francisco Sotomayor
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| Begona Rentero, No. 17. Oil on paper |
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