Carmen Calvo

In "Fish of colours on the roof" the Valencian artist Carmen Calvo met completely unpublished work. Pieces, created from disciplines that travelled from sculpture, engraving and photography, to video-projection and collage. The latter, intrinsic to the work of the author since the beginning of his career as an artist in 1969. Curated by the Professor of Art History Rafael Gil Salinas, the exhibition was a clear reflection of the particular personal universe of Carmen Calvo that, in the words of Gil Salinas, is present "both from the language he uses and his constant fantasies, worries, dreams and sleeplessness. " Among the topics discussed, we found metaphors for education, family, sex, religion, love and the reminiscence of childhood. Subjects that tried to be biographies of what the elements that make up the works have lived. Among the artistic processes used by the author, the search for three-dimensionality through the use of objects "that have not been designed for artistic purposes, but have been rediscovered by the artist [...] tracing a diary of concerns, joys, illusions, sadness, dreams, losses and encounters ".