About
Having a Dutch father and a Romanian mother, it didn’t surprise me at all that I was born in one of world’s melting pot and meeting point: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And although life, art and love brought me to distant places, for me Brazil has always been the place to be. As beauty has no frontiers, however, I’ve been living in other countries as well: Mexico, USA, Italy, China and, from 2003 onwards, The Netherlands. Our three children were born during this long journey.
Beauty, indeed, is the thing I love most. But not beauty for beauty’s sake alone. From a very young age I felt that real beauty couldn’t exist without interior harmony. I’ve always tried to express this feeling in my works: graphic design, photos, silkscreen, stained glass and acrylic sculptures. I think the glass assemblages I’m making the last few years are perfectly fitting this idea.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
1968-1970 Graphic designer for an advertizing company in Mexico City.
1972-1974 Sculptor in acrylic and photographer in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1974-1975 Photographer at the Institute of Esthetic Research at the University of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
1975 Making a photographic reportage about the Indian Cunas for the Mexican newspaper Excelsior.
1977-1981 Graphic artist for Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados, Mexico City.
1981 Making a stained glass work of 20 m2, Pachuca, Mexico.
1981 Working as stain glass sculptor and photographer.
1989 Making a stained glass work of 15 m2, Rome, Italy.
1995-2003 Freelance photographer for the newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’, magazines and books, first in Italy, then in China.
2008 Pictures in the book ‘China’ by Jan van der Putten
2008 Pictures in the book ‘Chinese tekens’ by Jan van der Putten
EXHIBITIONS
1969 Drawings, collective exhibition, San Carlos Academy, Mexico City.
1973 Sculptures in acrylic, Salão de Verão do Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sculptures in acrylic, Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1974 Sculptures in acrylic, Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil (collective with multiples with Le Parc, G. Segall, Vassarely).
1975 Drawings, Galery La Alianza, Xalapa, Mexico. Drawings and photographs, individual exhibition, Casa de las Artesanías, Xalapa, Mexico.
1976 Drawings, individual exhibition, Crater Lake Bank, Ashland, Oregon, USA. Photographs. individual exhibition, Vintage Inn, Ashland, Oregon, USA
1980 Glass sculptures, Third Glass Salon, Mexico City. Glass scuptures, Palacio Municipal de Tlanepantla, Mexico.
1981 Glass Scuptures, collective exhibition ‘Generación’, Foro de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico. Glass Scuptures, collective exhibition ‘Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven’, Casa de la Cultura de Aguas Calientes. Glass Scuptures, collective exhibition Salón Edípico del Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.
1990 Glass scuptures representing Mexico at the Festa Nazionale de l’Unità, Genua, Italy.
2004 Photo exhibition about China at the Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam.
2005 Assemblages at the Kunst Route in Alkmaar, ZAZO
2006 Itinerary mini prints, Gracefield Arta Centre, Scotland. Kunst in huis, Kunstuitleen, Alkmaar.
AWARDS
1980 First Prize Glass Salon (Salón del Vidrio), Mexico City.
1981 First Prize National Meeting of Young Art (Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
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