El arte español más femenino conquista la Gran Manzana
España gana peso en la enorme diversidad cultural de Nueva York tras la exposición de tres mujeres, madrileñas y con grandes carreras profesionales a sus espaldas.
La Nacional Española abrió sus puertas en 1868 como un club social para inmigrantes. Hoy se define como “un pedazo de España en Nueva York” . Y el último mordisco a la Gran Manzana ha sido el más artístico: el local pronto se quedó pequeño para acoger la exposición de pintura española que acaba de conquistar la ciudad.
La asistencia duplicó cualquier previsión. Porque, como recuerdan Juan Villalonga, el cónsul general de España en Nueva York, o Juan Verde, el vicesecretario de Comercio de Obama y el hombre que ha llegado más alto en la Administración norteamericana, España “está de moda” en Nueva York.
Lo saben ellos y lo saben los empresarios, banqueros, y hombres de negocios de todos los campos económicos que acudieron a la exposición que acaba de celebrarse en Nueva York. En una ciudad que, por qué negarlo, está dominada por el empresariado masculino, tres mujeres acaban de hacerse un importante hueco: son Esther Rosa, Marta Segimón y Begoña Allendesalazar, un trío de madrileñas instaladas en Nueva York con grandes carreras profesionales que están ganando peso en el competitivo mundo artístico del reino de los rascacielos.
Con esta puerta de entrada, Begoña Allendesalazar aconseja a los jóvenes que quieran aventurarse a hacer las Américas que carguen la maleta con “mucha ilusión, que es la base de todo”. Porque Nueva York, según Marta Segimón, es una ciudad en la que se ve “mucha provocación”. “Es un lugar donde se puede aprender todos los días algo nuevo. Aquí la diversidad cultural es enorme”. Y esa grandiosidad, España está hoy un poco más presente.
Desde ese momento, la pintura le ayudó “a encontrar un nuevo rumbo” a su vida. Ahora, en ella busca armonía, serenidad, equilibrio, belleza, luz, composición que atraiga y conquiste a los sentidos. Su estilo es fundamentalmente abstracto expresionista, y, desde Nueva York, ha estudiado la versión americana. Le apasionan Helen Frankenthaler, Wolf Kahn, Clyfford Still. ¿Entre los artistas españoles? Tapies, Antonio Segovia, Jaume Plensa. Y también siente admiración por artistas orientales, como Zao Wou-ki.
Pero no fue hasta 1997, después de terminar la carrera, aprender tres idiomas y haber tenido experiencias profesionales en el extranjero, cuando Segimón se lo propuso seriamente. Con “mucha determinación interior”. Ahora se inspira en sus “experiencias cotidianas”. “Pintar es saber mirar”, dice. Lo hace al óleo y en casa, en su salón. Sus deseos ahora son “seguir expresándose. Si no pintara, esa parte de mí quedaría estéril”, confiesa.
Eso dice mucho de su estilo, que básicamente es la abstracción, buscando en el subconsciente las “emociones” de una realidad. En esa mentalidad, tiene “muchísimos” artistas favoritos. “Podría citar a autores abstractos americanos pioneros como De Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock”. Y junto a ellos, “por supuesto, a Matisse y Picasso”. Con esos maestros, con su pintura, Allendesalazar solo espera “trasmitir, no me planteo nada más”, asegura. En su opinión, el arte no tiene países ni fronteras: cada artista americano o español o de cualquier país del mundo pinta su “realidad”.
The female Spanish Art conquers the Big Apple
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May 26th, 2011
Spain gained weight in the cultural diversity of New York after exposure of three women, Madrid and great career behind him.
The National opened in 1868 as a social club for immigrants. Today is defined as "a piece of Spain in New York." And the last bite of the Big Apple has been the most artistic: the premises soon became too small to host the exhibition of Spanish painting that has just conquered the city.
Attendance doubled any forecast. Because, remember Juan Villalonga, Consul General of Spain in New York, or John Green, Deputy Secretary of Commerce and the man Obama has come top in the U.S. administration, Spain "is in fashion" in New York.
They know them and know the business, bankers, and businessmen from all economic fields who attended the exhibition recently held in New York. In a city that, why deny it, is dominated by the business men, three women have just become an important gap: are Esther Rosa, Marta Segimon and Begoña Allendesalazar, a trio of Madrid installed in New York with great careers that are gaining weight in the competitive art world of the kingdom of skyscrapers.
Being American
It is not easy, but possible. "The U.S. continues to lead the market of art from all points of view, so that the world is heavily influenced by trends continue here .... That said, any artist (from Spain or wherever) can come here and be an American: New York received with open arms to everyone, "says Esther Rosa.
With this gateway, Begoña Allendesalazar advises young people who want to venture to make the Americas a suitcase loaded with "great enthusiasm, which is the basis of everything." Because New York, as Marta Segimón is a city that is "very provocative"."It's a place where you can learn something new every day. This cultural diversity is enormous. " And that grandeur, Spain is now a little more present.
Human Resources manager to abstract expressionist painting
Esther Rosa had to leave her career in Spain to move with her family to New York, where she arrived in 2006. And now loves painting, which gives the "satisfaction of creating, growing and being valued for something very yours." And is that all past experience is good. She is a psychologist and her career as manager of Human Resources has been a main stay in her life. "When I moved I had to reconstruct me from the begining, and in that search I found, to my surprise, I had other hidden capabilities even for me," she says.
Since then, painting helped her "find a new direction" in her life. Now, she seeks harmony, serenity, balance, beauty, light, composition and conquer appeals to the senses. Her style is fundamentally abstract expressionist, and from New York, has studied the American version. She loves Helen Frankenthaler, Wolf Kahn, Clyfford Still. Between the Spanish artists? Tapies, Antonio Segovia, Jaume Plensa and Oriental artists like Zao Wou-ki.
A vital relief for a practicing lawyer
Born in Madrid, Marta Segimón is a lawyer, a profession in which the deadlines and projects are "suffocating". Hence, the paint would contribute greatly to balance. "It's the way to express myself freely from what I am, with great honesty with myself. It's a life experience that allows me to live a part of me that if there would be drowned. "Because in the paint, compared to that job stress is allowed "to live at another pace, express from within, without words, more from the spirit from the right, is another dimension of me." Since I was little and liked color.
It was not until 1997, after finishing Collage, learn three languages and have had work experience abroad, when it proposed Segimón seriously. With "a lot of inner determination." Now she draws on her "experience." "Painting is able to look," she says. What makes oil and at home in your living room. Her wishes are now "continue to speak. If you do not paint, that part of me would be sterile" she says.
Right to search for the subconscious
From Madrid, Begoña Allendesalazar a degree in law. "The painting I turn on creativity and enthusiasm, to me, fundamental elements of life." She was always involved in the art world, but captured it when she came to New York a decade ago and then began to draw. Where do you find inspiration? "All around me, from any color to any form that I call attention to something."
That says a lot about her style, which basically is the abstraction, searching the subconscious "emotions" of a reality. In that mindset, has "very many" favorite artists."Abstract authors could cite American pioneers like De Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock", and next to them, "of course, Matisse and Picasso." With these teachers, with her paintings, just wait Allendesalazar "convey, I do not plan anything else," she says. In her view, art has no borders or countries, every American artist or Spanish or any country in the world paints her "reality".
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