Premio Combat Prize

RENATA GERLERO ESTRADA
ART WORK DESCRIPTION/BIOGRAPHY
Renata Gerlero has lived most of her life in Mexico but was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts from Hampshire College, Amhest, Massachusetts, U.S. in 1988 and has taken several workshops in N.Y., Texas and Mexico.
Her work has been shown (solo shows selection): in the MACAY Museum in Mérida, Yucatán, the José Guadalupe Posada Museum in Aguascalientes, the Museum of Antropology in Jalapa, Veracruz, the Toluca Graphics Museum, Estado de México, the Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla in Mexico City, the Instituto Cultural de México, San Antonio, Texas, and Hampshire Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
Through biennials and competitions she has held group exhibits in several states of Mexico (Selection): Museo Tamayo and Galería de la Secretaría de Hacienda S.H.C.P., Mexico City; Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca; Centro Cultural Universitario de Puebla, Puebla; Exconvento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jalisco; Museo Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Michoacán; Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,Baja California as well as in Europe: Sofia, Bulgary; Paris and Bages, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Valencia, Betanzos and Barcelona, Spain; Shenzhen, China; La Habana, Cuba, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Amherst, Massachusetts and San Antonio and Brownsville,Texas in the United States.
She is currently working on the relationships of physical properties and chemical processes of transformation of organic and inorganic elements in sculpture, painting and engraving. Her aim is to show certain procedures and characteristics of nature as aesthetical events.
Being from Mexico, were engraving has had a prominent presence in its artistic history, she has intended to insert her pieces in a contemporary venue.
The work in copper plates submerged in iron perchloride has been registered in prints throughout specific periods of time (days, weeks and months), with the intention of keeping a record of the plates´ process of corrotion. Each print presented entails therefore the notion of time and the processes of reaction and performance of chemicals (corrotion) and an inorganic element (copper) in a natural course of events with a minimum intervention from the artist.