22 February - 13 March, 2011Works on Paper by Luca Cruzat & Juan Carlos Stekelman

Juan Carlos Stekelman (Argentina)
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1936

Education
1962 Manuel Belgrano School of Arts, Argentina
1983 Bachelor of Arts, Open University, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2002
Museo del Grabado Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999
Centro Cultural Recoleta Buenos Aires, Argentina

1996
Museo Nacional del Grabado Buenos Aires, Argentina

1994
Galería Van Riel Buenos Aires, Argentina

1988
Galería Van Riel Buenos Aires, Argentina

1983
Madisons Londres, England
Canaletto Londres, England

1980
Mario Flecha Gallery Londres, England
Canaletto Gallery Londres, England

1979
Angelus Sala de Arte Buenos Aires, Argentina

1976
Hampstead Theater Londres, England

1975
Stanhope Institute Londres, England
Mermaid Theatre Londres, England
1973
Oxford Playhouse Oxford, England

1972
Canaletto Gallery Londres, England
Phoenix Theatre Leicester, England
Erica Bourne Gallery Londres, England

1971
Galería Van Riel Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phoenix Theatre Leicester, England

1970
Woodstock Gallery Londres, England
Galería Lirolay Buenos Aires, Argentina

1969
Unión Panamericana Washington, USA
Instituto de Cultura Hispánica Madrid, Spain
Galería Vignes Buenos Aires, Argentina

1967
Galería Van Riel Buenos Aires, Argentina

1966
Galería Lirolay Buenos Aires, Argentina

1963
Falbo Librero Buenos Aires, Argentina

1961
Galería Lirolay Buenos Aires, Argentina

1960
Galería del Grupo 8, Uruguay

1950
Miraflores, Peru

Group Exhibitions
2011
‘Works on Paper’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2002
Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000
Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999
Exposición Julio Bocca Andanzas Buenos Aires, Argentina (Palais de Glace)
Premio Banco Provincia, Seleccionado Buenos Aires, Argentina

1998
Panorama del Grabado Argentino Buenos Aires, Argentina (Centro Cultural Borges)

1991
Argentinos Printmakers in London, London, England (Anglo-Argentine Society)
Exposición Nacional de Grabado Buenos Aires, Argentina

1988
Salón Confederación General Económica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Cleveland (UK) Cleveland, England (Third International Drawing exhibition)

1976
Brighton College, Brighton, England

1970
Xylon V, Zurich, Switzerland

1965
Museo de Arte Moderno Asunción, Paraguay

1960
Primer Certamen Latinoamericano de Xilografía, Buenos Aires, Argentina


Awards
2002
Third Prize, Segunda Bienal Argentina de Gráfica Latinoamericana, Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Honourable Mention, Print categrory, Papelera Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1988
First Prize, Confederación General Económica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1973
The Purchase of a painting by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1968
The Purchase of an illustrated book of poetry "Madera y Soledad" by the Museum of Modern Art. New York, USA

1963
Honourable Mention, Primera Bienal de Artes Gráficas, Santiago, Chile

1962
Honourable Mention, Centro de Estudiantes de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1961
Second Prize, Centro de Estudiantes de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1960
Special Mention, Salón Estudiantes y Egresados de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1957
Second Prize, SEBA, Ramos Mejía, Argentina

His artwork can be found in the permanent The British Museum in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, National Museum Print in Buenos Aires, Argentina Museum of Modern Art in Córdoba, Argentina, Museum of Modern Art in Santa Fe, Argentina and Museum of Modern Art in Asunción, Paraguay.

My works are printed by hand not with a printing press. I use a water based ink which is softer than the oil based ink. I print them by hand with a simple spoon or a wooden circular wood .This is perhaps an old fashioned technique for prints of this size. In this way by printing by hand not a single copy is exactly like the other. They may seem the same but according to the way I rub or press the spoon or wood they change, getting different marks textures etc.

This gives warmth and individuality to the copies. The plastic or linoleum material I use is also an element of flat and even surface which allows me to print flat and solid blacks. This fact together with the use of simple and clear shapes is ideal for my intention of creating simple, direct works and to express the maximum with the least complicated technique. The colours I use are in general black and white, the maximum and minimum colours. Black and white are elements that are at the same time opposites and complimentary. How to find a composition that is at the same time simple, clear and direct and that can give my work the expressive strength that I wish it to have is the challenge I face.