Rocio Alonso

ROCÍO ALONSO (Buenos Aires).
"Encierro del Troglodita". 2024
Mixed media on canvas (oil, acrylic, recycled and experimental materials).
Framed.
Signed.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 50 x 70 cm.

Born in Buenos Aires, graduated in Visual Arts from the National University of the Arts and lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Trained with masters such as Ernesto Allí, Héctor Destefanis and Norberto Iera, among others. Founder of the artistic movement "Alma Arte Argentino", focused on the depersonalization of the author as a creative concept, and of the "Academia de Arte Mozzafiato" in Buenos Aires. I currently reside in Barcelona, where I run my atelier in the neighborhood of Gràcia and teach artistic training and mentoring programs. In this process I have accompanied more than two hundred students in the development of their personal language and the consolidation of their work. In the educational field, I have taught Visual Language, Painting and Art History at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, as well as Drawing, Painting and Development of Artistic Production at the Centro Integral de Artes Di María, in Buenos Aires.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: -Art movement Alma Arte Argentino was part of the Covid Art Memorial (2020).-Work "El testigo": selected by the international gallery Chashama for the exhibition One Self (World Trade Center, New York, 2019).-Work "Media": intervened by actress Gillian Anderson, who incorporated her signature on the piece.-Work "Chrónica": winner of the Laboratorio Hedaly art contest. Published on the brand's product boxes in five countries.-Work "The Accused": selected for the Chelsea Art Festival (New York, 2019).
-Work "Russian Doll": winner of the Carlo Biaggioli Art Gallery competition (San Marino, 2019).

EXHIBITIONS:-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires 2024-Open Gallery Buenos Aires, 2023 -Galería Fülle, Buenos Aires, 2023-Pasaje Bollini, Buenos Aires, 2023-Centro Cultural Islas Malvinas, Argentina, 2022 -Paseo de las Artes Pedro de Mendoza, Buenos Aires, 2022 -Fundación Menéndez, Buenos Aires, 2021 -Galería Ceruleo, Buenos Aires, 2021 -Asociación Dante Alighieri de Buenos Aires, 2021 -Museo del Inmigrante, Argentina, 2021 -Galería banco ciudad, Buenos Aires, 2021-Artly Gallery Madrid, 2021
-Zurbarán Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2020-Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, 2020-Salón de los Pasos Perdidos of the Buenos Aires Law School, 2019 -Carlo Biaggioli Art Gallery, San Marino, 2019 -Chashama Gallery, ONE SELF show, One World Trade Center, New York, 2019 -Scope Miami, 2019 -Scope Paris, 2019 -Scope Paris, 2019 -SMIAF International Art Festival, San Marino, 2019 -Chelsea Art Festival, USA, 2019 -Buenos Aires Dante Alighieri Association, 2018.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
-Gerard Depardieu: French actor known for numerous French and international films.
-Gillian Anderson: American actress, famous for her role in the TV series "The X-Files".
-Laurie Anderson: American artist and experimental musician.
-Elena Roger: Argentine actress and singer known for her performances in musical theater and opera.
-Valeria Lynch: Argentine singer and actress.
-Walter Soarez: Prominent personality in the Argentine cultural field.
-PMB Music: Record company.

My artistic approach focuses on generating beauty and harmonic composition from seemingly trivial materials, revealing their aesthetic and emotional potential through the mixed media present in my works. In them, oil, pastels and charcoal coexist with experimental materials -such as recycled objects, keys, fabric scraps, cardboard or buttons-, configuring a materiality and a visual language that transforms the simple into a symbol. My latest series, entitled Horror Vacui, reflects the essence of contemporary society: the human compulsion to fill the emptiness that persists in our existential search. It proposes the recognition of that emptiness as a constitutive part of our human condition and reveals, in that gesture, that in the ephemeral beats the very beauty of existing. The series invites us to reflect on the fragility and vulnerability that inhabit us, and leads the viewer to confront his own fears, discovering beauty where he did not expect it: in the everyday, in the fragments of everyday life, in what usually goes unnoticed or is considered banal.