MARIBEL MAS CV 2017

Maribel MasCaracas 1967

Resident in Barcelona between 2000-2014.Since 2015 work and live in Leipzig.

Since 2005 in my workshop Taller Esquina, I worked as printmaker and teacher in stone lithography.I have collaborated with museums and art schools in projects related to printmaking techniques as Aoya Museum in Japan, Picasso Museum, Massana Art School, UB Barcelona University and Arts Libris artist book fair.In Caracas, between 1985 and 1989 I studied graphic design in the IDC, etching and additive techniques in the TAGA, Graphic Atelier of Caracas. From 1990 to 1992 I participated in drawing workshops in the Kuadra Creativa and Caracas National Art Gallery.In 1998 I studied painting and silkscreen in Lorenzo Di Medici Institute of Art in Florence, Italy.Between 2001 and 2005 I had specialized in stone lithography at the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts In Barcelona. In those years had studied also ceramic arts in Industrial School of Barcelona and in the Bisbal Ceramic School.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005, Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona, Spain. Andoh Gallery, Tottori, Japan. Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.2008, Enlaces, Museum Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. (catalogue) Enlaces, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. Enlaces, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.2012, Variation, lithography series 2011-2012, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain. 2013, Zeitlinien, drawings and prints, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain. A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.2014, Zeitlinien, Tinta Invisible editions, Barcelona, Spain. Andoh Gallery, Tottori, Japan. Seisou, Osaka, Japan.2015, A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.2016, Gabinete de Dibujos, Valencia, Spain.

2017, Thaler Originalgrafik, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany. Círculo del Arte Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

AWARDS

1994, First Prize “Theobaldo de Nigris”, Latin America Graphic Industry Association Award, Mexico.2004, First Prize Aoya Museum, Graphic works on Inshu Washi paper, Japan.2006, First Prize Arches Papers Award, Paris, France.2013, Selection 20th International Print Triennial, Kracow, Poland.2016, Selection “Open Portfolio”, Bilbao Graphic Fair, FIG, Bilbao, Spain.

COLLABORATIONS

1998, Silkscreen series, Art Studio Fuji, Florence Italy.2002, Lithographic workshop, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan.2006, Etching series, ediciones Tinta Invisible, Barcelona, Spain.2008, Technical displays, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. Lithographic workshop Museum Sant Pol de Mar, Spain.2010, Lithographic workshop Massana Art School and Facultad de Bellas Artes, UB University, Spain.2011, Japanese woodcarving courses and technical displays, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain.2012 -15, Woodcarving and photopolymer series, Edition carpe plumbum, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.2013, Cliché Verre project, Atelier für Radierung, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.2014, 5+5 Contemporary Works on Paper, China and Spain museums.2015, Zeitlinien drawings, Social Impact Lab, Leipzig, Germany. Curator of the exhibition Grafik Barcelona-Leipzig, Gallery Círculo del Arte, Barcelona, Spain.2016, Grafik Kalender 2017, Hoch und Partner, Leipzig, Germany.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1992, Salón CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela.1994, VII Exfilve, Philatelic Exhibition, Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, Venezuela. (catalogue)1998, Tito Salas Contemporary Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. (catalogue and artist book))2000, Latin American Illustrators selection, 27th IBBY Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. (catalogue)2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan. (catalogue) Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain.2004, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan. (catalogue) Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. 4 from Llotja, Quiosk Gallery, Tremp, Spain.2006, Graphic Works on Arches Papers, Escola Llotja Avignon section, Barcelona, Spain. Calcografía Nacional Graphic Art Contest, Zamora, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Museo de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue) Honda Painting Awards, La Garriga, travelling to Girona, LLeida and Tarragona. (catalogue)2009, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Cervantes Institute, Tokyo, Japan.2010, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Centre de Artesania de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue)2012, La Galería, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona European Art, Brocken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 20th International Print Triennial, Kracov, Poland. (catalogue)2013, 20th International Print Triennial, Oldemburg, Germany. (catalogue) Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Poland. (catalogue) Arts Libris, Taller Esquina stand, Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain.

Carpe-Plumbum Symposion (artist book): BBK in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany. Cliché verre Reloaded (catalogue): Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany. Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Germany. 2014, Arts Libris, Taller Esquina stand, Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain. 5+5 Contemporary Works on Paper, Setba Zona d’Art, Barcelona, Spain. AB Gallery, Granollers, Spain. La Sala, Vilanova, Spain. Yi Shanghai Art Museum, China. (catalogue) Yonghe Art Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China. Síntesi, FAD Tallers Oberts Barcelona, Spain.2015, Grafik Barcelona-Leipzig, Círculo del Arte, Barcelona, Spain. Körper-Raum, with S. Hoch and U. Haring, Hoch+Partner Gallery, Tapetenwerk, Germany. BBK in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany. Atractive Prints vol. 3, Shibatacho Gallery, Osaka, Japan. AEG Art Center, Thaler Originalgrafik printmakers. Nuremberg, Germany. “Pentomimo”Thaler Originalgrafik graphic artists Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany. BBK Symposien printmakers, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany.2016, Grafik Kalender, Hoch und Partner, Leipzig, Germany. (relief printing edition) Selection “Open Portfolio”, International Graphic Fair, FIG, Bilbao, Spain. (catalogue) “Pentomimo II and III” Thaler Originalgrafik Graphic artists, Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany.2017, 3rd Global Print, Vila Velha Museum, Portugal Thaler Originalgrafik group exhibition, Munich, Germany2018,9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro, Portugal. (catalogue)

Finally, beyond the aesthetic relationship with the guest artists of the workshop, Taller Esquina has developed technical partnerships, including the japanese papermakers of Ganpi, Mitsumata Kouzo developed in their family workshops in Aoya, and in the project Kanyain with Tatsuya Mitani, through courses and information on paper and japanese woodcut. For 10 years, this collaboration between these two cultures can share another approach to the paper, its production techniques, and its specificities.

Pascal Ronfard, Elan d’Arts, Paris.http://www.elandarts.com/

The gesture distinguish Maribel Mas. Sometimes a red soft trace, a bloods echo. Decision and impetus other times. Here are reunited beauty and pain. Maribel Mas is a traditional lithography master, who distillates from the stones a ineffable subtleness.

Alex Mitrani, art critic and curator, Barcelona

The lithographic traces that Maribel Mas left on the paper are restrained and subdued, as if the artist purposefully prevents the figure to escape from the crevasses of the paper and the lithographic plate.

泡泡, Pao Pao, Yonghe Art Exhibition Hall, Beijing

The work of Maribel Mas repeatedly investigates the fascination and significance of traditional printmaking techniques in the digital age. A meticulous illustrator and a graphic artist with a penchant for experimentation, her specialty and passion are lines. These, to her, are not contours but have a quality all of their own. Maribel Mas is obviously well aware of the creative energy of repetition, a cardinal feature of the conceptual avant-garde. The artist interrupts the regularity of her serial structure, because, as she says, “random is an inestimable source of possibilities”.

Susanne Altmann, catalogue “Cliché verre”, exhibition in Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig.http://www.radierung-leipzig.de

In the case of engraving and lithography, and particularly for Maribel Mas work, reading key probably lies in the passion for the use of different printing processes, the selection of paper and the good combination with each ink: to serve the artist and his creation in the best way. Whether stone lithography on aluminum plates, woodcut, intaglio: it is needed a time to find the balance between the work of the artist and the selected way of expression.

In addition, etching and lithography, offer a very special relationship with the moment of creation. Kant sees nothing higher than the beauty of nature and the artist ultimate try is to approach the nature... For Bergson, the need for “Elan Vital” explains the evolution and development of living entities, and pushing the thinking to arts, this approach can then lead to a certain “momentum of arts”, necessary for creativity.

In the case of printing processes, in a way similarly to photography, there is this unique moment where the artist discover the work. In the case of painting or sculpture, the passage of the blank canvas, or the stone block is a slow transition, with the particular kinetic of each artist, who decides alone the completion. Bonnard, true perfectionist, could not avoid to modify his paintings, even after they were bought or exhibited in a museum...

The engraving or lithography appears in a certain moment of “revelation.” This “thaumaturgic’ side gives these techniques a special dimension, somewhere between hard work and magic. It must be the combination of artistic design (poiesis), with the craft project and with expert practice (praxis). The work appears to the artist, and can not be changed anymore, except for the “enhancement”, reinforcing the “uniqueness” of the work. The piece of art appears in the same way in the eyes of the art lover, who discovers the work completed.

The workshop of Maribel Mas in Barcelona since 2005, “Taller Esquina”, weaves constantly new links, discovering areas to explore. Thus, the workshop invests in education through partnerships in Leipzig with printmaker workshops and projects in Barcelona with the Picasso Museum, the Museu Moli Paperer Capellades, UB Barcelona University, Llotja and Massana Art Schools.

WEB SITEwww.maribelmas.com

CONTACTInfo@maribelmas.com+49 034126699507

VIDEOS

Variation 2: Lithography serieshttps://vimeo.com/channels/486460/97949369

5+5: Contemporary Works on Paperhttps://vimeo.com/channels/486460/55746579

Guest in Taller Esquina: Joaquim Chanchohttps://vimeo.com/channels/486460/97922179

GALLERIES

Spain:

Galería a Cuadros, Madridhttp://www.a-cuadros.com/artistas/artista/307

Círculo del Arte, Barcelonahttp://www.circulodelarte.com/es/autor/mas/es

Gabinete de Dibujos, Valenciahttp://gabinetededibujos.com/projects/maribel-mas/

France:

Elan d’Arts, Parishttps://www.elandarts.com/artistes/mas-maribel/https://www.elandarts.com/taller-esquina-un-atelier-au-travail/

Germany:

Thaler Originalgrafikhttps://www.thaler-originalgrafik.de/produkt-kategorie/kuenstler/maribel-mas/

Japan:

Andoh Gallery, Tottorihttp://g-ando.com/sakuhin_2f/2014/1002.html

INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNIALS AND GRAPHIC FAIRS

Leipziger Buchmese 2017 and Independent Publishing Fair “It’s a book” HGB 2017Presentation of the catalogue 2017:Interferences, drawings and graphic artMMKoehn Verlag Leipzig/Berlin

Open Portfolio, Bilbao international Grafic Fair FIGselected artist 2016http://www.figbilbao.com/open-portfolio/

Arts Libris, Book FairTaller Esquina stand 2013http://artslibris.cat/en/taller-esquina/

Krakov International Print Triennialselected artist 2012http://www.en.triennial.cracow.pl/MTG_Archives/MTG_2012/Participating_artists/

Drawing process on the stone with paper stencils and a diamond point tool, Leipzig 2016

First Award, Aoya Museum, Totori, Japan, 2002. “Graphic works on Washi Paper” exhibition

Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005

Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005. Article by Arnal Ballester

Interview wiith the Tottory Province Governor. Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005

Article in the Kreuzer Magazine Leipzig 2012 Leipzig Spinnerei http://www.radierung-leipzig.de/details/radierungen-sieben

Article in the magazine Grabado y Edición, 48th Autumn edition: Lithography key points by Maribel Mas, 2015