We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ana Cecilia Mattera. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ana Cecilia below.
Alright, Ana Cecilia thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
Mi vida artistica es mi mas significativo proyecto, la que comparto con mi vida laboral. La escencia creativa me acompaño cada día. Desde mi niñez siempre acudí al campo artístico para una vida gratificante y reconfortante. Me inicie en la pintura en ecuelas barriales y luego segui una trayectoría con el acompañamiento de mi gran maestro Miguel Caride.
Los oleos y los pinceles siempre estuvieron conmigo trabajando duro en pensamientos metafícos, aborde la escultura y mas tarde la joyeria, mutando luego a la que hoy, con muchos nombres diferentes, trabajo la joyeria contemporanea.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Cecilia Mattera: Art has accompanied her life from the small neighborhood workshops to her consolidation as an artist in the field of painting. As an explorer of other territories, she then took up sculpture, later reducing its format by applying it to designer jewelry, recently venturing into contemporary jewelry. With a spirit of permanent search, fusing colors applied to shapes that awaken the senses, she weaves a personal and mysterious imprint, mimicking elements of nature that accompany her work. She also combines real natural elements into her work that vibrate in consonance and harmony. …. Cecilia Mattera, with silent eloquence that impresses us deeply, with the serene passion of an inevitable freedom, with love, makes the world inhabited by art transparent to us and brings us the hidden treasure of ultimate possibilities.
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Learning
1977-1981 Instituto Porrera – Painting
1981-2013 Painting studies with Miguel Caride
2002-2010 “Fileteado Porteño” painting studies with Alfredo Genovese
2014-2014 Sculpture studies with Antonio Pugía
2015-2021 Jewelry studies with María del Mar Skiaradessis
2021-2022 Contemporary jewelry studies with Fabiana Gadano
2022-2022 Study of unconventional settings with Jorge Manilla
2023-2023 Jewelry study with Jorge Manilla / Núcleo
2024 Project 8 with Francisca Kweitel
Exhibitions held
1989: Collective exhibition at the Avellaneda secretariat
1989: Collective exhibition at the art critics association
1990: Solo exhibition at the Belgrano Bank Branch Boston
1992: Solo exhibition at the Bank Boston Foundation
1995: Solo exhibition at the Bank Boston Foundation
2001: Collective exhibition at Club el Carmen
2004: Biennial of Sacred Art – Bishopric of Morón
2006: Collective exhibition at Club el Carmen
2013: Solo exhibition at the ICBC Foundation
2015: 80th Autumn Salon of the Association of Plastic Artists
2015: Exhibition at Galería Roca
2015: #CuidaLolas Exhibition at Galeria Roca
2015: Exhibition at the Provincial Museum of Arts of La Pampa on its 90th Anniversary
2018: Exhibition at the Plastic Artists Salon
2018: Exhibition at Mansión Berlín
2021: III Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry Abran Cancha 2021 – https://labienal.ar/concurso-obras-1}
2021: Exhibition at Mesas de Trabajo at the Obrador Centro Creativo Buenos Aires – Tours and intermittencies in contemporary jewelry 2021 – Workshops by Fabiana Gadano and Mabel Pena
2022: Brazil Jewelry Week
2023: Salón 40 años de democracia, Centro Argentino de Arte Textil
2024: Participation in “The Battle of the Rings” Danaca Design Studio
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
The goal that has been part of my creative work all my life was and is that art never dies, which is the force that allows us to express ourselves and release the deepest feelings.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I had to share my creative life with my professional life, which is my means of economic support. It is difficult to get out of this circle and I encourage all those talented people who can decide to opt for a life totally dedicated to art, even if it is difficult.
Family and inherited mandates in my time marked our personal decisions with fire.
I had to make way for art, sacrificing unique moments of rest or family, taking time away from my family, but making sure that the flame
Asi logre forjar una vida próspera en el ámbito de la pintura, escultura y finalmente en la joyeria. Actualmente en la joyería contemporanea.
Contact Info:
- Website: cecilia.mattera.com.ar
- Instagram: @cecilia.mattera
