Roberto Cortázar "A 30-Year Survey" Opening Reception

Clarke & Associates is proud to host the inaugural Houston 2018 exhibition of a 30-year survey of work by the well-known Mexican artist, Roberto Cortázar.

Originally from Tapachula, Chiapas, he was born in 1962. His early artistic talent led him to begin painting when he was 14. In 1984, he held a solo exhibit in the Reynold Kerr Soho Gallery in New York and the Misrachi Gallery in Mexico City. He has participated in group exhibitions at many museums and galleries in Mexico, Central America, and the United States. In 1988, he presented a solo exhibition at the Mexican Museum of Modern Art, titled Anatomies, which travelled to several Mexican museums. In 1991, he participated in the Inaugural Exposition of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO) called Myth and Magic in America: The Eighties. In 1995, The National Palace Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico City organized a retrospective exhibition of his work entitled Postmodernism. In 2000, he participated in the exhibit Soleils Mexicains in the Museum Petit-Palais, Paris, France. In 2012, Cortázar was given a solo show at the San Diego Museum of Art.

Cortázar has worked in painting, photography, sculpture, and assemblage. As a neomodernist, Cortázar has fused the human figure with the abstract. His work is executed within a Mexican tradition and perspective. Cortázar is one of the most innovative painters of Latin America’s contemporary art scene.

The Opening Reception takes place Sat., Jan. 13, 2018, 6-9 p.m. The exhibition will be on display Jan. 13-April 2, 2018.