Texturas
2006
Cardboard Engraving                                 

Rosa Szwarcberg           
Residence: La Pampa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina

I like to freely express my real inner world. I don’t have previous ideas before starting the work. I work in process. In spite of the abstraction of the images, I found them keeping links with images of real life, dreams, or thoughts.

For a long time I used etching as an engraving technique. Becoming conscious that the nitric acid is prejudicial to health, I was looking for another way of working that brings me to a similar solution. So, I started to experiment with cardboard. To interact delicately with the cardboard, gives me results according to my sensibility, and it was highly rewarding as a working process. ‘Texturas’ is an example created using this technique.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rosa Szwarcberg graduated from the Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires. She attended the National Fine Arts School ‘Prilidiano Pueyrredón’, and studied drawing and painting with Cerefino Rivero and Victor Chab, etching with Alfredo de Vincenzo, and photopolymer intaglio with Andrea Juan. Additionally, she has participated in several national and international group shows, including awards and mentions, while an active member of the ‘Grabadoras del Sur’ etching group.

2008
Salón Manuel Belgrano de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2007
VIII ‘Iosif Iser’, Bienala Internationala de gravura contemporânea, Ploiesti, Romania
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina [Mention]
The Iowa Biennial Exhibition, Contemporary Miniature Prints, Iowa Hall Gallery, Kirkwood College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
‘Carbunari 2007’, International Small Engraving Salon, Muzeul Florean, Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania
Salón Manuel Belgrano de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2006
VII ‘Iosif Iser’, Bienala Internationala de gravura contemporânea, Ploiesti, Romania
The Iowa Biennial Exhibition, Contemporary Miniature Prints, Project Art Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Salón Manuel Belgrano de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bienal Argentina Grafica Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Exhibition, Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina