{"id":4024,"date":"2016-05-28T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoagallery.com\/?page_id=4024&lang=en"},"modified":"2023-09-09T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T08:58:45","slug":"astrid-sommer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stoagallery.com\/en\/astrid-sommer\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrid Sommer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mexican abstract artists, the titles of her paintings are a bunch of abstract concepts: “Impulse”, “Distinction”, “Visceral”… Surely the work of Astrid belongs to abstraction, to the most elegant, optimistic and colorful. In it the “vibration of the soul” is perceived, without which, Kandinsky said, the work cannot be produced. And there it is, in each painting, a reflection of the most intimate Astrid, confirming another statement from the great master of abstraction, “the spirit of each artist is reflected in the form. The form bears the stamp of the personality”. Astrid herself states that colors have an emotional meaning and it is easily noticeable. We are looking at a great example of subjective abstraction… and poetic. Because, as another artistic poet states, Ai Wei Wei, “(…) the poetry serves to keep our intellect in the previous state to rationality. It takes us to a pure sense of contact with our feelings”. And this is precisely what we have with Astrid\u00b4s paintings, pure feeling. But not the expression of feelings “as experienced in real life, but those feelings imaginatively lived, in that level where reality and unreality merge”. The feeling of the artist is, no doubt, in a work she claims to gestate in a fun and spontaneous way, hoping it will be the personal experience of each one, their personal baggage, which guides the reading of her acrylics. She yearns for each piece to communicate with the viewer, to “say” something without being mediated, appeal to the ability of each eye to interpret and find out what happens in each canvas and, better yet, what it provokes in each one. There is no conceptual basis to guide the work, because she is not a fan of explanatory texts but, although the titles are of a calculated vagueness, she cannot help but bring with them significant clues that, like it or not, will affect that particular and nontransferable immersion. Many artists are not interested in what their work may provoke in the viewer. This is not the case. For Astrid, to know what impressions, ideas or feelings her paintings have provoked, becomes essential.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Born in Mexico City. She has participated in more than 50 solo exhibitions and international group shows.
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Artist\u00b4s Webpage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Art Fairs <\/span>and Biennials<\/span><\/h4>\n

2019 KIAF, South Korea<\/p>\n

2019 SEATTLE ART FAIR, USA<\/p>\n

2019 POSITIONS BERLIN, Germany<\/p>\n

2018 CONTEXT MIAMI, USA<\/p>\n

2018 KIAF, South Korea<\/p>\n

2018 Art Marbella, Spain<\/p>\n

2018 Art New York, USA<\/p>\n

2017 Scope Miami, USA<\/p>\n

2017 Art New York, USA<\/p>\n

2017 LA Art Show,USA<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2016 Art Marbella, SPAIN<\/p>\n

2015 New York Art Expo, USA
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Solo exhibitions
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2023 \u201cPenelope\u00b4s Odyssey\u201d, Stoa Gallery, M\u00e1laga, Spain<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> -\u201cOther directions\u201d, Herraiz Gallery, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

2022 “The Sleep of Reason”, STOA Gallery, Spain<\/p>\n

2020 “The clothesline”, STOA Gallery, Spain<\/p>\n

2019 “Pillars”, STOA Gallery, Spain<\/p>\n

2017 \u201cSingle Word\u201d, STOA Gallery, Spain<\/p>\n

2017 \u201c\u00a0Colos”, Herraiz Gallery, Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cPareidolia\u201d, STOA Gallery, Spain<\/p>\n

2015 Di\u00e9gesis, Aura Galerias, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2014 Color Index, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013 Abstractus, Galer\u00eda Carlos Misrachi, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012 -Tendedero, BAR Gallery at Willesden Green, Londres, Inglaterra.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Contrase\u00f1a, Galer\u00eda Carlos Misrachi, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 Interpretaciones, Galeria DRT, Quer\u00e9taro, Qro.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Ritmos Intemporales, Galer\u00eda Carlos Misrachi, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010 Di\u00e1logo entre Colores, Galer\u00eda Carlos Misrachi, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007 Intuitio, Casa Vallarta, Universidad de Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006 Ruta 1106, Foro de Arte y Cultura, Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005 Astrid Sommer, Galer\u00eda Factor Arte,Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exposiciones Colectivas \u2013 selecci\u00f3n<\/span><\/h4>\n

2014 -Femenine reunion, Stoa Gallery,\u00a0 Spain
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Manos por M\u00e9xico, Museo Franz Mayer, M\u00e9xico, D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011 -International Show , Caelum Gallery , New York, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Corazoles, Centro Cultural Universitario, Puebla,Pue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Rojo Red, Galer\u00eda Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007- Rojo Red, Galer\u00eda Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 XIII Sal\u00f3n de la Foto, Centro de Arte Moderno de Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006 -Sal\u00f3n de Octubre, Ex Convento del Carmen, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Festival de la Gr\u00e1fica, Museo de las Artes Populares, Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Sal\u00f3n de la Estampa, C.\u00a0de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Lessedra World Art Print, Lessedra Gallery, Sof\u00eda, Bulgaria<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Casiopea, Revista de Arte, Colegio de Jalisco, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Sal\u00f3n de la Fotograf\u00eda, Centro de Arte Moderno, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Puertas Abiertas al Arte, M. Regional de Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Influencia Europea en Guadalajara, Museo del Periodismo, Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005 -Sal\u00f3n de la Estampa, Centro de Arte Moderno, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Tango Fusion, Art Fusion Gallery, Miami, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Quiero ver Sangre, Ex Convento del Carmen, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2004- Dos Buriles no se pican, Torre de los Grillos, Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Art Around the World, Piag Museum, Miami, Florida<\/span><\/p>\n

2003 Nuevos Grabadores Tapat\u00edos, Museo Regional de Tecolotl\u00e1n, Jalisco<\/span><\/p>\n

2001 -Tradiciones Mexicanas, C\u00e1mara de Comercio de Gdl, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Expresarte, World Trade Center, M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Suma Pict\u00f3rica, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2000 Jarco, Jalisco Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, C\u00e1mara de Comercio de Guadalajara, Jal.<\/span><\/p>\n

1998 Colectiva de Navidad, Galer\u00eda Clave 13, Gdl, Jalisco<\/span><\/p>\n

1997 Forma del Color, I.M.S.S., M\u00e9xico D.F.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2007 Premio Nacional de Pintura Atanasio Monroy<\/span><\/p>\n

2006 Premio Nacional de Pintura Atanasio Monroy<\/span><\/p>\n

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