Rosita Schandy

Rosita Schandy
Montevideo, Uruguay

STATEMENT

My collage work is completely manual, I cut from magazines, books or from printed images from the web. I work with bright color backgrounds and glue. For temporary murals displayed at exhibitions, I use “putty” type of reposition-able adhesive. My shapes can be any size, but I need to learn to work large scale. I enjoy working on very colorful and generally busy pieces depicting fantasy, touches of surrealism and irony, whimsical details and loving to catch the viewer’s curiosity to keep them exploring a piece to discover more in it. In my pieces, such concepts as the feminine shape, ornaments, fantasy and surrealism, intertwine with religious icons, flowers and comic characters in some sort of playful dance, with a touch of protest, sarcasm and balanced ridiculousness.

BIO

Rosita Schandy is an emerging artist and inheritor of a creative genetics. She grew up and currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, enriching herself with the illustrations and drawings she sees in books and those her dad did. Throughout her life, she has explored techniques in a wide array of media. Her creativity took her to paint on canvas and leather, then to decoupage on canvas until she fell prey to the “passionate technique” of analog collage, as she describes it.

She expanded her studies at the workshop of renowned local artist Clever Lara in Uruguay, but a change of life took her to travelling the world for work, so she does, absorbing its art, shapes and colors and cutting and sorting all that which attracts her. Her collages are 100% hand-cut; occasionally she will play with mixed media in her creations.

Her work is exhibited for sale at the TazArt Gallery in Montevideo. Others are part of private collections in Argentina, England, Brazil and USA. Her collages are part of a collaboration for the Pocket Collage Museum in Samara, Russia and, in 2020, she participated in the 1er Concours International d’Art Contemporain in Villa Joyosa, Spain, where judges including gallery owners, artists and guests, distinguished her work, Sister Earth, with a mention.

In 2021, she was invited by Diana Saravia Gallery of Montevideo together with 3 other women artists to exhibit their art work at the internationally renowned ESTE ARTE fair in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Her first solo exhibition, “Imaginarium”, took place at Sala Saez in Montevideo, Uruguay in June 2024, with very positive press coverage and general reviews. Thirty-five pieces were exhibited at the time, for a month. The exhibition was followed by a smaller scale one at the Espacio Arte of the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club in October of 2024. Her large, temporary murals are an explosion of color and fascinating focal points in her exhibitions.

ARTIST CONTACT

+59 898 735 800
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