Jorge Gonzalez Velazquez

 

Mexican painter and sculptor with more than 35 years of experience in the field of plastic arts. He studied until the ninth semester of the sculpture career at ENPE y G., La Esmeralda. He began his artistic production at the age of 18, exhibiting individually and collectively in various cities in Mexico and abroad.

The experience acquired in carrying out his personal projects allowed him to advise artists such as Juan Soriano and José Luis Cuevas in their sculptural production. In 1993 he produced the sculpture "La Luna" by maestro Juan Soriano, placed in the National Auditorium in Mexico City. In 1995 he participated in the Libertad en Bronce project of Impronta Editores, advising and producing the work of artists of recognized national and international trajectory such as Leonora Carrington, Juan Soriano, Günther Gerszo, José Luis Cuevas, Fernando de Szyszlo, Vicente Rojo, Roger von Gunten , Manuel Felguérez, Joy Laville, Brian Nissen among others.

In 1998, Aldama Fine Art made its first retrospective exhibition of the 22 years of plastic production. Catalog reviewed by Dr. Lily Kassner who will invite him, years later, to be part of the dictionary of Mexican Sculptors of the 20th century.

In 2005 he traveled to the city of Graz, Austria where he made the monumental sculpture "White Nude" in white stone. The piece became part of the Austrian city's sculpture collection and was exhibited at Schlossbergplatz from 2005 to 2010. From then on, a series of cultural interactions began with some Austrian cities, workshops, exhibitions and conferences.

He participates in a series of international painting and sculpture symposiums in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria between 2007 and 2017. In 2010, he makes the solo exhibition "Music in Sculpture" and presents it in the gallery of the Juan Soriano Museum in Warsaw, Poland. , at the express invitation of Marek Keller, representative of the master Juan Soriano from which said gallery opens its doors to other Mexican artists.

In 2016 he moved to San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca where he founded Origen66, Atelier. Space open to the production of plastic arts, where in addition to continuing with the production of his work, he advises the community in the elaboration of the masks used in the traditional "Muerteada" relevant celebration organized in said population on November 2 (Day dead).

In 2018 he made the exhibition "Origen" at the Aldama Fine Art gallery with a catalog presented and reviewed by Mtra. Lelia Driben.

In 2019 he works in the master stonemason workshops of Magdalena Apasco, Oaxaca.       _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3 b-136bad5cf58d_   _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_       _cc7 81905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5 cf58d_   _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_       _cc7 81905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5 cf58d_  

From 2020 to 2022, he has individual and collective exhibitions in venues in the State of Oaxaca, as well as virtual participations in Italy, Austria and Germany.

An individual exhibition is scheduled for July 2022 at the La Calera Cultural Space in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, within the framework of the Guelaguetza celebrations, a large festival in the state of Oaxaca.

He is part of the select group of artists represented by the Aldama Fine Art gallery in Mexico City.