By Susana Quiroga
On October 3 a presentation took place at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish- American Art consisting of an excellent double art event involving Sculpture and Poetry: Sculpture by Marta Díez, Poetry by Rubén Vela. The exhibition showed a united esthetic view from these acknowledged artists, who resort to different ways of expression.
By Lady Rojas Benavente
We wish to warmly thank each of you for having given us the chance of meeting in Jujuy, the birthplace of Juana Manuela Gorriti, an Argentine writer who was born in the mountains of the North-East and transcended her own country by contributing to the culture in Peru and Latin America.
By Alejandro Caride
Mask-making is practically an ageless art. Hence its magic, through veritable sculptures always radiating identity. Could they be supernatural in their representation?
By Ruben Vela
We live in a world that is detaching itself, thus uncovering vast unexplored areas in which man discovers the endless spaces of his creative liberty.
Por María Cánepa
Masks—Sculptures and Poems by artist Marta Díez and poet Rubén Vela, edited by AEC, 50 pages.
This attractive, colourful, oversize bilingüal book, printed on glossy paper, is an original publication of art with poetry with Marta Díez’s masterpieces and Ruben Vela’s writing.
by Ruben Vela
My eyes are full of masks, colours, shapes surrounding me and getting hold of me with various voices, prompting me to write this[...]
By Cecilia Glanzmann
Prior to the latest Book Fair in Mar del Plata, and also during the Fair, the Book of Masks and Poems by sculptress Marta Díez and poet Rubén Vela was presented at the imposing Villa Victoria.
By Nelida Norris
Unusually artistic as they are, these works display an imaginative sensitivity that interprets the plastic originality of ancient masks and at the same time enhances these visual creations from early peoples through the magic prism of poetry.
By Ester de Izaguirre
Who is hiding behind those empty sockets? A realm of beauty. Not that the eyes may be missing - they are facing inner realities and looking at us. They are there, but we fail to see them because reality sets a limit. Here they contemplate. Over there lies the entire mystery of beauty.
By Bertha Bilbao Ritcher
Through the use of papier mâché, cartapesta, oil, textiles, glass, aluminum, knittings, stuck-on earth, shells, feathers, beads, acrylic, rock crystal, semi-precious stones and iron, Marta Díez Ojeda displays her world of Masks, as photographed by Gustavo Díez Spólita, Agustín Muguerza, José Luis Barros, G. Piñeiro and H. Molina Suárez.
By Federico Maculan Bagarotti
“When dealing with the subject of masks, the mise en scène originates in the Latin concept “persona sibi accomod...”, whether it is the effect of resorting to masks, feigning, changing into drama or buffoonery, mystic or pagan; closing an absence in which[...]
By Cesar Magrini
The masks created by this artist are essentially based on life, that is to say, they refer to real actions evocative of imaginary situations, which in no way goes against their intrinsic reality. Marta Díez has worked for a long time as a researcher and historian in this particular subject, b[...]
By Adalberto Tortorella
Myth and Symbolism is the history of masks. I do not wish to enlarge on the subject, because all three of them will do so intensively. Yet I would like to say something about the personality of each one.
By Ester de Izaguirre
Poem on the “She who is and is not” work piece Whose face is this that has gone away from the countenance? Who has lost the true language and has remained with its soul to the wind? Who is looking for her along the streets of a world in which nobody knows, in which nobody speaks, in which the names of things and men are not known?
By Marcela Costa Peuser
When facing an abyss, a bridge becomes a certainty, and, no matter how deep the abyss, a human being must imagine and build that passage enabling him to reach the other side and so carry on towards his destination.
By Celia Aiziczon de Franco
Marta Díez’s masks begin by making their way into her inner self, causing her to search for her own language, nurtured by the cultures of America, especially those from the Northern area of Argentina[...]
By Virginia Carreño
A man from Santa Fe Province who is a diplomat, poet laureate and art collector; a woman artist from Tucumán Province with a gift for manifold creativity, besides being a beautiful woman and a ranch owner; and a high-level medical doctor from Buenos Aires City, in love with her and her art, have jointly produced a book which is a real attainment. It was presented at a serial exhibition of masks and sculptures so human-like that nobody would wonder at hearing them speak. Several persons from the audience even came over to kiss them.
By Ester de Izaguirre
What could I say, after what we have just been listening to, and after having read this beautiful book written by Rubén Vela on art as produced by Marta Díez.
During my travelling over the world, even if I may have forgotten most, there are things that remain untouched in my memory, among which are art exhibitions.
Por Daniel Perez
¿Quién ve? ¿Qué ve? ¿Qué es lo visto? ¿De qué lado sel espejo? La figura femenina es un pájaro negro, tiene brazos alados y cola blanca, y de su pico caen los hilos de plata de la lluvia; Universo sin tiempo recrea símbolos[...]
Por Prof. Dr. Alejandro E. Caride
Análisis de las funciones del lenguaje de un escritor consagrado. Visión Neurológica -
Alejandro Caride
Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico
California State University, Dominguez Hills[...]