'Elementals: From the material to the emotional' is the sample of painting in which Rosana Sitcha conjugates, with mastery, the beauty of realism.
A collection of paintings where the portrait and the elements;
air, water, earth and fire, are the keys to take us by its simple style, without adornments, where they imbue us in a sense of fullness and connection with nature.
The artist, with a refined pictorial technique, explores the internal textures in their purest nature with the original elements.
The way in which it captures light results in compositions full of spirit and fascination, they are creations where the materiality of nature and soul is condensed.
'Elementals: From the material to the emotional' was inaugurated this Thursday, March 1, in the Subjective Hall of the Consistorial Palace and in the Roman Theater Museum.
Along with the Cartagena artist Rosana Sitcha, was the presentation of the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez.
The sample can be visited until April 22.
The sample, composed of five series, has as a common denominator the nature in internal movement, with a rhythm of cadence of the vital forces that is pure energy, each series is accompanied by literary texts by such significant authors in the city as María Teresa Cervantes , Natalia Carbasoja, Mati Morata Sánchez, Juan de Dios García and Antonio Marín Albalate, who have taken part in the project.
Rosana Sitcha presents her creations with a collection of paintings where the portrait and the elements;
air, water, earth and fire, are the keys to take us by its simple style, without adornments, where they imbue us in a sense of fullness and connection with nature.
In the series Frágiles, it shows the faces of the women in the calm water, in Volatiles, the female figure with the hair in movement recreates the transparency of the air.
The warm and strong fire of Incandescents brings us closer to passion, the earth is protagonist in its Terrenales, series that we can contemplate in the exhibition rooms of the Consistorial Palace, while the fifth submerged Anonimas is exhibited in the Roman Theater Museum.
In the series Anonimas submerged, it is the water element that takes all the protagonism and the face almost disappears.
The works are extracts of life and pure essence of art, water as a source of life.
In this series, the artist Rosana Sitcha invites us to explore the colors and internal textures in their purest nature.
The way he captures the light, lights that bathe and touch the faces resulting in compositions full of spirit and fascination.
This artistic exhibition is the result of collaboration between the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena and the Roman Theater Foundation.
BIOGRAPHY
Rosana Sitcha was born in 1981 in Cartagena (Murcia), she has a degree in Fine Arts from the San Carlos School of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
He has completed his training with great professionals such as Cristóbal Gabarrón, Antonio López and Eloy Morales. Among his latest solo exhibitions, he highlights "The reflected city" at the Real Casino de Murcia, (2017);
"The elements: the force of nature", in the Pedro Cano Foundation, Blanca (2016);
"Madrid, the painted city", Jorge Alcolea Gallery, Madrid (2016);
"Soliloquio urbano", Cajamurcia Foundation, Madrid (2016) or "Cosmopolitas" at the Galería de Arte Mar, Barcelona (2016).
His works are exhibited in different countries of Europe and the United States.
He has participated in important collective exhibitions, among the last ones;
"Heryca.
The trips of Sirus ", Consistorial Palace and Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Museum of the Roman Theater, Cartagena (2017) or" Creative Genres "in the Culture Hall of Cajamurcia, Cartagena (2017).
He has also participated in several national and international fairs such as Fair "FERIARTE", Jorge Alcolea Gallery Stand, Madrid (2017);
"Point of View", R. Alexander Fine Art Contemporany, Georgia.
United States (2017);
"Open House", R. Alexander Fine Art Contemporany, Georgia, United States (2017) or "Portraits of Daily Life", R. Alexander Fine Art Contemporany, Georgia, United States (2017).
A trajectory that completes with recognitions like the first prize "Nicomedes Gómez" dedibujo 2016, Polytechnical University of Cartagena, Murcia (2016), as well as in the "XII painting contest Toledo Puche", Cieza, Murcia (2015);
the first prize of painting in the "Premios Ejército del Aire", Madrid (2014) or the "La Colmena Painting Contest", Asturias (2014), among others.
WORK
Rosana Sitcha is a realistic painter of the most important of her generation.
His art has evolved into compositions in which the sets of planes are a fundamental part in their plastic structures.
In this exhibition, he focuses on the representation of the portrait.
These faces are the mirror of the soul, emotional images that transmit captivating plastic compositions, led to interrelate with the original elements.
Sitcha is a creator in all its extension of the word, who has managed to collect the light of Cartagena, love, the sea, the breeze of the coast and the passion through fire to be in a continuous renewal as an artist.
His exhibition, in synthesis, combines the strength of nature that is in his land, which now gives him the opportunity to show his compositions in rooms of the Palace and the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena.
In her portraits, the artist uses a refined technique and a hyperrealist bill to shape images that are involved with the search for identity in contemporary times through her paintings.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena