SUSANA ADDIEGO

 CURRICULUM VITAE

Susana Addiego was born on 14^th February, 1959, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at Fernando Fader Technical School. She learnt sculpture with Prof.Dora Belenda and Prof.Adriana Piterbag and drawing and painting with Prof.Raúl Ponce and Prof.Víctor Chab. She has participated in art salons and exhibitions since 1988.

 Collective exhibitions

2002    ‘Arte en las Ciudades, Estandartes de Artistas’(‘Art in Cities, Artists’Banners’),

 Centro Cultural San Martín ( San Martín Cultural Center).

1999    Galería ‘Hoy en el Arte’( ‘Art Today’ Gallery).

1998    Museo Pompeo Boggio (Pompeo Boggio Museum), Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province.

1996    Galería Luis Seoane (Luis Seoane Gallery).

1994    Galería Celebrities (Celebrities Gallery).

1992    Espacio de Arte Finisterra ( Finisterra Art-Space).

1991    S.A.A.P. (Argentine Artists’Society).

1990    Banco Credicoop (Credicoop Bank).

1989    Espacio de Arte Liber-Arte ( Liber-Arte Art-Space).

1988    Fundación Esteban Lisa ( Esteban Lisa Foundation).

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006    Galería Crimson (Crimson Gallery).

2003    S.A.A.P. (Argentine Artists’Society).

2004    Banco Ciudad (Buenos Aires City Bank).

2005    S.A.A.P.

1993    Galería Celebrities (Celebrities Gallery).

 Jury Art- Salons

2003    Museo Monte de Piedad - Banco Ciudad (Mount of Mercy Museum – Buenos Aires City Bank).

XLVII Fall Salon, Ateneo Esteban Echeverría ( Esteban Echeverría Atheneum).

2000    Ateneo Esteban Echeverría.

1999    S.A.A.P. Fall Salon, Museo Municipal de la Ciudad de La Plata ( La Plata City Municipal Museum).

LXIII San Fernando Fall Salon, Buenos Aires Province.

S.A.A.P. Fall Salon, Biblioteca Nacional ( National Library).

1998 Salón Municipal de Cerámica de Avellaneda (Avellaneda Municipal Clay Salon),       

          sculpture.

          Spring Salon, Universidad Popular de La Boca ( La Boca Popular University).

1997    Painting and Drawing Salon, Galería Núcleo de Arte ( Nucleus of Art Gallery).

 Galería Núcleo de Arte, Casa Eva Perón (Eva Perón’s House).

1996 Cooperativa Telefónica Villa del Totoral (Totoral Village Telephone Coop.).              

Córdoba.

‘Salón Premio Jerusalem’, Museo Sívori (‘Jerusalem Prize Salon’, Sívori Museum), painting and sculpture.

Fundación Cultural Argentino-Japonesa, Jardín Japonés (Argentine-Japanese Cultural Foundation, Japanese Garden).

Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Vercelli Civic Theater, Italy.

1995    Alliance Francaise Salon, Centro Alberto Fortabat ( Alberto Fortabat Center).

‘Encuentro de Creación’ (‘Creation Meeting’), Museo Municipal Octavio Paz (Octavio Paz Municipal Museum), Córdoba Province.

‘Salón Actualidad en el Arte’ (‘Art Today Salon’), Espacio Giesso (Giesso Art-Space).

Telephone Coop. Society, Córdoba Province.

‘Arte sin Fronteras’ (‘Art without Frontiers’), Museo Histórico Municipal Gral.San Martín ( Gral.San Martín Municipal Historic Museum), Morón, Buenos Aires Province.

1994    C.E.A.R.C.O. Fall Salon.

Lix Fall Salon, S.A.A.P., Museo Municipal de Arte Víctor Roverano ( Víctor Roverano Municipal Art Museum), Quilmes.

Contemporary Argentine Art Salon, Museo Sívori (Sívori Museum).

In every creative act, not anchored in preconceived ideas, the artist drifts – like a bottle at sea – toward an uncertain destination. On this hazardous journey there are encounters with unexplored lands, sometimes with references to reality or, on the contrary, discovering the prodigy of the unknown. It is the wakefulness of a preglimpsed dream whose meaning refuses all explanation. This process the artist sets off when he starts his work, sends us to the world of the unconscious.

Susana Addiego operates contrariwise. Her starting point is the photographs she herself takes of her beloved marine landscapes. The photos reveal cliffs and dunes, as well as sand, bushes, detritus, lichen, shells in the crevices and hollows of rocks. Beyond them, there is the sky, as a constant background blending with the sea. Susana needs the backing of these images, but the effect is of astounding fantasy, almost without the support in reality which gave origin to her work. The photo is a mere pretext which triggers shapes whose origin remains occult, transforming her work into puzzling interior landscapes.

VÍCTOR CHAB

Argentine artist

Two currents, apparently contradictory, converge naturally in Susana Addiego’s work: abstraction and figuration, alternating in dynamic counterpoint.

It is true that many figurative artists with the intention of reinterpreting reality, freely borrow from the contributions of various abstract trends.

However, this is not the case with Susana’s painting, since both currents interpenetrate one another, accompany each other or keep apart, one prevailing over the other, giving rise to a richly suggestive painting and generating unstable areas which invite the viewer to include his own dynamics. Consequently the person who chooses to see a landscape or scene will see it, whereas someone else will focus on the display of shapes and colors.

It is the actual craftsmanship, understood as the handling of matter, that gives its defining tone to her work. There is the painter’s grip, the push, the decision and, why not, the doubts of an artist driven by a vital throb that makes her use from brushes and palette-knives to even her own hands in a passionate attitude which does not exclude reflection.

No wonder she uses oil- paint, a material which is essentially warm and sensual.

RAÚL PONCE