MARIBEL MAS / CV 2017

MARIBEL MASCaracas 1967

Resident in Barcelona between 2000-2014,since 2015 works and lives in Leipzig.

Since 2005 in the workshop Taller Esquina, works as printmaker and teacher in stone lithography.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 studied graphic design in the IDC, etching and additive techniques in the TAGA, Graphic Atelier of Caracas. From 1990 to 1992 participated in drawing workshops in the Kuadra Creativa and Caracas National Art Gallery.In 1998 studied painting and silkscreen in Lorenzo Di Medici Institute of Art in Florence, Italy.Between 2001 and 2005 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. (catalogue) “Enlaces”, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.2012, “Variation, lithography series 2011-2012”, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain. 2013, “Time Lines”, drawings and prints, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain. A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.2014, “Time Lines”, Tinta Invisible editions, Barcelona, Spain. “Variation series”, Andoh Gallery, Tottori, Japan. “Variation series”, Seisou, Osaka, Japan.2015, “Variation” A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.2016, “Interferencias” Gabinete de Dibujos, Valencia, Spain.2017, “Interferences”, Thaler Originalgrafik, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany. “Interferències”, Círculo del Arte Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. “Interferencias”, A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

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.2005, First Prize “Arches Papers Award”, Paris, France.2006 and 2007, Selection Calcografía Nacional Graphic Contest, Madrid, Spain.2013, Selection “20th International Print Triennial”, Kracow, Poland.2016, Selection “Open Portfolio”, Bilbao Graphic Fair, FIG, Bilbao, Spain.2017, Selection Engraving Biennale of Saint-Maur, Paris, France.

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, “Mokuhanga to Washi”, 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”, lithography case, China and Spain museums.2015, “Time Lines” drawings, Social Impact Lab, Leipzig, Germany. Curator of the exhibition “Grafik Barcelona- Leipzig”, Gallery Círculo del Arte, Barcelona, Spain. “Lithography Key Points” Article for Grabado & Edición Magazine, Madrid Spain.2016, “Grafik Kalender” 2017, Hoch und Partner, Leipzig, Germany.2017, “Time Lines” edition, magnesium relief printmaking Grafikwerkstatt Dresden, Germany. Grafik Jahresgaben (Graphic Annual Edition) Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, 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 II”, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan. (catalogue) “Graphic Works on Inshu Paper II”, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. “4 de Llotja”, Quiosk Gallery, Tremp, Spain.2005, “Certámen de Arte gráfico” Calcografía Nacional, Zamora, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Museo de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)2006, “Graphic Works on Arches Papers”, Escola Llotja Avignon section, Barcelona, Spain. “Certámen de Arte gráfico” Calcografía Nacional, 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 III”, Cervantes Institute, Tokyo, Japan.2010, “Graphic Works on Inshu Paper IV”, Centre de Artesania de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue)2012, “Artistas de 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. “3th Hochdruck Symposion” (artist book): BBK Showroom in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany. “Cliché verre”(catalogue): Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany. Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Germany. 2014, “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 Aution in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany. “Atractive Prints vol. 3”, Shibatacho Gallery, Osaka, Japan. “Thaler Originalgrafik printmakers” AEG Art Center, Nuremberg, Germany. “Pentomino” Thaler Originalgrafik graphic artists Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany. “On Print” BBK 25th Aniversary, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany.2016, “Grafik Kalender”, Hoch und Partner, Leipzig, Germany. (relief printmaking edition) Selection “Open Portfolio”, International Graphic Fair, FIG, Bilbao, Spain. (catalogue) “Pentomino II” Thaler Originalgrafik Graphic artists, Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany.2017, “Pentomino III” Thaler Originalgrafik Graphic artists, Leipzig Spinnerei, Germany. “Cliché verre” Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria. (catalogue) “Cliché verre” Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz, Germany. (catalogue) “Ladder to Heaven” Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany.2018, Engraving Biennale of Saint-Maur, Paris, France.

Interferences arise through the chance meeting of lines in the drawings and graphic art of Maribel Mas. Using cardboard templates, she traces lines that are tautas strings and vibrate like those of a musical instrument. The repetitive patterns of serial music have indeed been influential in her work, in particular the minimalistic compositions and “phase music” of Steve Reich, with its almost identical phrases overlapping and slowly shifting out of sync. A similar approach has led the artist to experiment with the possibilities of a “phase drawing,” using only the simplest of materials: paper and ink.

More than just a surface, the paper itself becomes an active element as the artist’s work takes shape. The process of understanding each type of paper, of discovering the potential and unique character of a non-industrial, non-standardized material has been a gradual one, made possible only in collaboration with master craftsmen in Aoya, Japan, who manufacture the paper by hand with the fibers of ganpi, mitsumata and kouzo plants.

In her Barcelona workshop and the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Maribel Mas has collaborated on various projects allowing her to experiment with the possibilities of line. From these experiences with lithography, cliché verre and photopolymer she has increasingly focused on the repetitive use of lines as a constructive element in her work. The interferences, occurring naturally in a working process with no preliminary sketches, invite the viewer’s reflection on the multiplicity and transience of things. Or perhaps they simply allow the eye to engage with the lines in a playful way.

Graphic artist and Lithographer Maribel Mas was born 1967 in Caracas. She moved to Barcelona in the year 2000 where she specialized in lithography. In 2005 she founded the Taller Esquina engraving workshop. In recent years she has participated in various graphic-art projects with museums and art schools. Her artwork has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Osaka and Leipzig, where she has lived since 2015.

With an intuitive or even ludic vision of abstract geometry, Maribel Mas have received and interpreted the Latin-American artistic heritage from the previous generations, in particular the use of the line in spacial constructions growing in organic manner as Gego´s installations or the relation in the space of several layers of lines, in change with the viewer position, as Soto´s sculptures.

Translation: David Burnett

WEB SITEwww.maribelmas.com

CONTACTInfo@maribelmas.com+49 034126699507

PUBLISHERMMKoehn Verlag Leipzig/Berlin

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