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 María Tamara Revythis
Marta Díez works are truly remarkable inasmuch as they easily convey a sound knowledge about those ancient civilizations and people able preserve their magic and thousand year old past.
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.
Por Cecilia Glanzmann
"Tus" tan originales y bellas MÁSCARAS, Marta, me dijeron de tiempos inmemoriales el jueves..., me llevaron a territorios de misterio, de planos dimensionales más allá de los tres que tenemos aquí en esta vida terrestre..., me invitaron a recorrer culturas y mitos [...]
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.
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[...]
By Horacio Semeraro
Masks have at all times reflected man´s need to take on various roles when faced with infinity, deities and the rest of men. Whether warlike, festive or sacred, masks have always stirred a seductive, mysterious attraction
Por Alejandra Vela
Primero leer esta maravillosa recreación del Papa que es la siguiente:
"Para que los cristianos valoricen mas la literatura, el arte y los medios de comunicación social para favorecer una cultura que difunda y promueva los valores de la persona humana"[...]
By Alejandro Caride
I wish to thank all of you for being here, especially our hosts at this distinguished place.
I am in a truly privileged position, since I am sharing with you a series of moments with Marta, who makes both the sculptures and the masks, and with Rubén and his family.
By Bertha Bilbao Richter
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. It is a luxury edition by Alejandro E. Caride, who also participated in the conversations between the artist and writer Rubén Vela, the latter being the author of the poetic text translated into English by Sara Samet de Gullco. They all contributed in making it a cultural object carefully designed by Marius Riveiro Villar Studio.
By Dr. Alejandro Caride
Myths are expressed within this concept of time precisely because divinity stands beyond time. They are timeless, their time is above and beyond human time.
By Ricardo César Lescano Grosso
By placing the thousand-year-old legacy upon her own shoulders, and vanguard trust on what is new in her inner self, Marta Díez materializes a warning to the faces of the past, by producing masks which are finely clear and splendid.
By Laura Feinsilber
Under the heading “Integration of Cultures in our country”, Marcela Costa Peuser, head of Arte al Día, and the writer, were privileged in sharing on October 12 an event belonging to the deepest Argentina, the one that exists even if it may not appear on the media. It took place at Chasicó, a rural area 60 kilometers away from Bahía Blanca, in a pine-tree woodland surrounded by the slopes belonging to Los Altares Park. Under the skies an exhibition was arranged of some hundred pictures hanging from the branches of the trees, most of them donated by artists in the area, as also from other parts of the country, and by school children.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.