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Born 1955 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Still life, religious symbols.
Born in Mexico City, Elena Climent is known for detailed still lifes of common place objects of contemporary Mexico. Examples of this in her work are scenes of home altars, photographs, candles,... Read full biography
Born in Mexico City, Elena Climent is known for detailed still lifes of common place objects of contemporary Mexico. Examples of this in her work are scenes of home altars, photographs, candles, small shop interiors, family pets, food container items, and plastic toys. Unlike many of her... Read full biography
Born in Mexico City, Elena Climent is known for detailed still lifes of common place objects of contemporary Mexico. Examples of this in her work are scenes of home altars, photographs, candles, small shop interiors, family pets, food container items, and plastic toys. Unlike many of her contemporaries, her work is not despairing but is honest and genuine, accepting of reality without attempting to change it. Her oil painting is highly symbolic of events in her own life including the rhythms of... Read full biography
Born in Mexico City, Elena Climent is known for detailed still lifes of common place objects of contemporary Mexico. Examples of this in her work are scenes of home altars, photographs, candles, small shop interiors, family pets, food container items, and plastic toys. Unlike many of her contemporaries, her work is not despairing but is honest and genuine, accepting of reality without attempting to change it. Her oil painting is highly symbolic of events in her own life including the rhythms of Mexico City and the tensions she feels from the ethnic mix of her parentage. Her father, Enrique Climent, was a Spanish artist and an exile from the Spanish Civil War who came to Mexico in 1939. Her mother was from a Jewish family and was raised in... Read full biography
Born in Mexico City, Elena Climent is known for detailed still lifes of common place objects of contemporary Mexico. Examples of this in her work are scenes of home altars, photographs, candles, small shop interiors, family pets, food container items, and plastic toys. Unlike many of her contemporaries, her work is not despairing but is honest and genuine, accepting of reality without attempting to change it. Her oil painting is highly symbolic of events in her own life including the rhythms of Mexico City and the tensions she feels from the ethnic mix of her parentage. Her father, Enrique Climent, was a Spanish artist and an exile from the Spanish Civil War who came to Mexico in 1939. Her mother was from a Jewish family and was raised in Brooklyn. At age sixteen, Elena decided to become a painter and searched for stillness, beauty, and symmetry where others saw ugliness... Read full biography
Elena Climent - Artist Info
About Elena Climent: Books
Books & Publications (5)
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Latin American Woman Artists 1915 -1995
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Biller, J.D. Smith0 pagesNorth American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesElena Climent Re-encounters
1995Lowe, Sarah16 pages (color)Elena Climent In Search of the Present
1992Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art20 pages (color)