Carmen Calvo

Lives and works in her hometown, Valencia.

In 2013, she received the National Visual Arts Award. 

In 2020, she received the Julio González International Prize awarded by IVAM in Valencia. In 2019, she received the Carmen Alborch Prize. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships since 1980. 

In the 1970s, Carmen Calvo began one of the most personal journeys in Spanish art. Her training in fine arts and the world of pottery led her to subvert the codes and treat clay as if it were painting or sculpture. Fascinated by archaeology, she places small moulds or various objects as archaeologists do. Her collections on shelves, very personal installations, also show plaster or gypsum forms whose austerity is reminiscent of Morandi. Her photographs, manipulated with objects or paint, constitute a lucid social critique of post-war Spain, its repressive institutions and its moral constraints. 

Her most recent exhibition at the end of 2023 was at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, curated by Emmanuel Guigon and Victoria Combalía. 

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