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Carmen Calvo

Carmen Calvo (Born 1950) is active/lives in Spain.  Carmen Calvo is known for Mixed media artwork.

Around 1996, Carmen Calvo recovered many of the objects from a tailor's shop located in the Plaza de la Reina in Valencia. The store belonged to Rafael Molina and his wife María Santonja, whose name can be read on this piece. The artist recovered numerous papers, magazines, patterns, fashion illustrations, correspondence, notes, invoices, in short, everything that had been discarded or forgotten. In this particular case Carmen Calvo presents a draft book of ornaments in which a series of crystals as "fossilized brushstrokes", as the author herself has called her technique. The work links with the image of the order of accumulation associated with the artist. In it, small pieces introduce us to a rhythm of sequences reminiscent of a collector's display case, an influence derived from Calvo's discovery of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian art collections at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The influences, recognized by Calvo, come from the work of Kurt Schwitters or Joseph Cornell, in which the o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6230 characters.]  Artist bio

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