Berta Jayo
Berta Jayo (born 1971) is a Spanish artist.
Early life and education[edit]
Jayo has a degree in fine arts from the University of the Basque Country (1991-1996) and was fine art teacher from 1996 to 2000. She was chosen for doing the first year of postgraduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, then the MA fine art (2000-2002). She has also participated in many programs as ISCP New York (International Studio and Curational program) (2004-2005).
Work[edit]
Jayo's media exhibitions started on 2000. A wall installation called: "All is done" make us think about sense of life. In 2002, the series "Holes" was made, in which she drills canvas and other objects. She participated at "Beauty and sadness" Collective exhibition in Frankfurt and Portugal with Juan Uslé, Gómez Bueno and others, with children dresses made with supermarket bags. Other relevant work is the serie of paintings called "Making Love" on 2004 in which couples make love on canvas. She said it was "a Yves Klein heritage". At the same time appears the series "Nudes" in which she takes photographs after people undressing. On 2008 Jayo begins to make nun dresses with colors fabric, camouflage, polka dot, etc. We can see groups of people, individual or herself wearing the nun dresses at public spaces, or going inside international fairs or famous museums paying the entrance. Museums like Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern, MoMa or Louvre Paris.This is the most extense and best know work of the artist.
Jayo was included in the group of the international itinerating museums exhibition: "Artists of XX and XXl Century". She also participates at other exhibitions like "ELLAS"(they) with Ouka Leele, Eva Lootz or Marina Nuñez. Jayo gives to the concept of performance a special caricature like "Holidays" in which she invites people randomly selected to go holidays. Hotel and place is chosen by the artist and the result is a picture of the people take by anyone inside the city. People is taking from social networks. One exhibition is called "Heart and soul" at El Kubo, next to Kiki Smith and Rebecca Horn among others. Exhibition view On 2015 she presents her first architectural project. Architectural project and on 2016 she shows a nun sleeping during 2 hours in a group show at La Juan Gallery Madrid, first live art space in Spain. The most recent work "A call to humanity" is a series of photo performances and videos.
Published books[edit]
- Sabático. (Sabbatical). 2013 - This vitalista court book says that we have to go ahead with the truth and with self-confidence and that we can all be creative because we are unique. From the formal point of view has a general structure to be compartmentalizing, keeping an overall unit, with a poetic touch, artistical, philosophical, educational, everyday, idealistic and healing.
- Poamario. (mixwords). 2015 - It is a book that opens the heart. It contains a singular energy made of wordplays, conceptual games, antithesis, oxymoron or paronimias.
Curational projects[edit]
From 1996 Jayo organizes shows in which includes artists like Yoshiaki Kaihatsu or Tom Skipp.
References[edit]
1. http://www.hoyesarte.com/evento/2015/06/las-mujeres-artistas-de-los-siglos-xx-y-xxi/18/9/2015
2. http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/03/09/54fd7937268e3ec34b8b4570.html
3. http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/08/09/madrid/1344508708_421286.html
4. http://www.sala-kubo-aretoa.eus/index.php/exposicio/actual?id=773
7. http://www.voidplus.jp/en/regreen-arts-2009/
8. http://dismagazine.com/tag/berta-jayo/
10. http://www.exitmail.net/exitmail.php?idart=3196.
11. http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/prensa/20070521/cultura/como-desnudar-creacion_20070521.html
12. http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/culturas/201409/03/ellas-mundo-distinto-20140903014628-v.html
External links[edit]
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