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Matty Marcos was born in Havana in 1947. She studied plastic arts at the San Alejandro Superior School of Fine Arts
in Havana, where at the same time she completed engraving and lithography works at Plaza
de la Catedral de la Havana Shop.
Matty Marcos participated in various group expositions in Cuba. In 1971, she traveled to
Spain, where she became a part of the artistic scene and also studied the artistic roots
of the old Europe. She worked in a ceramic craft shop, designing and modeling originals. Because
of her dedication to the arts she obtained membership on the Spaniard Painters and
Sculptors Association.
On May of 1973, she participated in the IV Sport International Biennial of Fine
Arts. On October of the same year, she exhibited in the well-known "Salón
de Otoño" of the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro XLIII presentation. In 1974, she participated in the International
Painting Competition in Pollensa, in Mallorca, Baleares Islands in Spain.
In October of 1974, she went to
New York
where she continued her artistic career. She became a member of the Spanish
American Painters and Sculptors and exhibited her work in
Paramus, New Jersey
. In July 1975, she exhibited her work in the
City
Hall of West New York
, as part of the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Nation.
In October of 1975, she held an exhibition at the Dume Theater of New York. The
media commentaries were beyond personal recollections, they gave to the public and
interpretation of her work, where the praise to her style and her technical qualities
were the main theme, projecting only the figure of the artist based on her accomplished
success, when considering her youthful.
Matty Marcos left a note to her mother before leaving
Cuba
, where you can feel the outstanding humanitarian and vocational stature of the
artist.
Seek
in my love, faith, trust; look at my eyes today and take from them what you
need, and the day that I will not be here, rest your eyes on my work and you
will find me. My life is in my work; it is the only thing I have.
They were made with my hands, only capable to give love; with the pain
that humanity make them suffer, but they are here to give to humankind the gift
of myself.
On December of 1975, after participating in various exhibitions in
Miami
, she moved to live in this sunshine land that reminds her of its beloved island.
She participates in about fifteen group and seven individual exhibitions until
1981, when she decides to take time off for personal matters.
While she was recluse, Dr. Josefina Rubio of Todo Magazine writes this about
Matty.
Regardless of her
youth, Matty has a perfectly defined style in her paintings. A modern, bright
and colorful strong trace in most of her backgrounds and a well marked Afro-Cuban
influence in her paintings. Deeply analyzing her work, there is no doubt that
even though she has a modern line, the influence of the disclaimed Cuban school
is apparent, which its main characteristic is the oval face, slender, refined toward
the chin.
This style was introduced by Victor Manuel and continued by other painters until
today. This characteristic is typical in the paintings of Oliva Robain, Eddy
Cortada and others, and is almost a trademark that has been influencing new painters.
Can this be classified as
Cuban
School
or not? Some experts in the field denied its existence while others confirm
it. Without doubt, Matty Marcos has a great future in her hands. Her
style is well liked, is firm, easy, and of great creativity.
After being absent for some time from public view, Matty Marcos continues to live
in a world that is not hers. Adjusting to new experiences, helping from
a distance her family in
Cuba
. Sad for so many years in exile, which forced her to learn different customs
and cultures, she entered into the world of children, animals and nature. But
she continues painting, sometimes creating for herself and for her interior world,
which she fills with fantasy.
Today in her real world, the arts, the creation, she talks with Luis Felipe Marsans
in a recent interview (Diario Las Americas, July 1998):
To paint is a dream
that is out of reality, and what it needs to be done is to look for a way that one
thing be compatible with another, to continue existing and painting, because time
keeps moving and what we do today, will be only thing that will stay from us tomorrow.
But it took plenty of time and hard work for Matty to arrive at this objective and
realistic conclusion. Here she also realizes the time does not flow without reason,
and that when we learn we grow. Even though the years of loneliness, Matty Marcos
loves life and perform many more works to survive.
On March 1994, she creates the murals of La Carreta Restaurant at the
Miami
International
Airport
. These murals reveal her homesickness, the color of
Cuba
, the peasants, the fruits, the greenery of the country. It is a green concept that
fills the spirit. Also during this time she paints murals in pediatric offices and
that is the way she lives today, back among us.
With new hope and desire to continue enhancing our livers with her art, she is presently
working on one of her most original creations: Her stones. These stones have a life
of their own; the move, they walk; they talk among themselves; they laugh and shine.
The polished river stone is theone Matty employs in her great small work. The acrylic
is used to get a strong color, also in the drawing and pen at the end. A unique,
exclusive finish and extremely original.
A special note from the artist:
On
each stone that I begin, I feel a new different emotion
Is
the joy of a child,
Is
the color of the sea,
Is
the line that jumps to my eyes,
Is
the everyday fantasy,
This
is who I am…
Matty Marcos recently exhibited her stones with 20 of the paintings at the Brickell
Equity Corporation Limited Galleries. There she obtained numerous acclaims through
the radio, TV and printed media. After such a long absence, she happy and satisfied
of the new acceptance. But now Matty Marcos returns to be among us, with her love
to her painting and her public.
I
was there hidden for so long
that
I did not know what was happening outside.
There,
you only feel the sea, with the sound of the waves.
There,
the seagulls disappear in the distance
And
are painted in the air
There,
a tear tastes to salt and algae and is clothed in sand.
I
was there hidden for so long
That
now I only want to go out… To see the sun…
Breathe
the air full of lilies
And
then, with color pencils,
Draw
my name in the sand.
Matty
Marcos
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
35th Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 4 - 5, 2006,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia - Fair Expo Center, Tamiami Park
May 18 - 21, 2006,
Miami
,
Florida
Sunday on the Mile / Carnival Miami (Kiwanis)
March 4 - 5, 2006,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
34th Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 5 - 6, 2005,
Miami
,
Florida
Viernes Artisticos - Calle Ocho Boulevard
May 27, 2005,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia - Fair Expo Center, Tamiami Park
May 19 - 22, 2005,
Miami
,
Florida
Sunday on the Mile / Carnival Miami (Kiwanis)
March 6, 2005,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
33rd Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 6 - 7, 2004,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia
May 20 - 23, 2004,
Coconut Grove
,
Florida
32nd Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 6 - 7, 2003,
Miami
,
Florida
"Guajiros" en Casa Juancho
October 2003,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia, Coconut Grove Convention Center
May 16 - 18, 2003,
Coconut Grove
,
Florida
The Cuban-American Artist Society, "Small Format", GDS Fine Arts
Studio
December 13 - 14, 2002,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
Gallery Night, Davinci's Gallery
December 6, 2002,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
31st Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 1 - 2, 2002,
Miami
,
Florida
The Cuban-American Artist Society, "The Harmony of Contrasts", Brickell Avenue
July 11, 2002,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia, Coconut Grove Convention
Center
May 17 - 19, 2002, C
oconut Grove
,
Florida
Gallery Night, "El Dia Internacional de la
Mujer", O & Y Gallery
March 1, 2002,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
Gallery Night, Davinci's Gallery
January 4, 2002,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
30th Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 2001, Miami, Florida
Gallery Night, GDS Fine Arts Studio
September 7, 2001,
Coral Gables
,
Florida
Art Expo 2001, Brickell Equities Corporation Limited
July 12 - 28, 2001,
Miami
,
Florida
Cubanostalgia,
Coconut
Grove
Convention Center
May 17 - 20, 2001. Coconut Grove, Florida
Gallery Night, Republic Security Bank
May 4, 2001, Coral Gables, Florida
Calle Ocho, Historia Pequena Habana
Gallery 2000, March 30, 2001,
Miami, Florida
St. Stephen's Art & Craft Show
February 17 - 19, 2001,
Coconut Grove, Florida
21st Annual Baptist Artist Showcase
November 25 - 26, 2000, Miami, Florida
29th Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 4 - 5, 2000, Miami, Florida
Centro Matter Art Exhibit,Intercontinental Hotel
September 30, 2000, Miami, Florida
13th Annual Las Olas Art Fair
September 2 - 3, 2000, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Cubanostalgia, Coconut Grove Convention Center
May 19 - 21, 2000, Coconut Grove, Florida
The Art Festival in the Pines
April 8 - 9, 2000, Pembroke Pines, Florida
ArtExpo South Miami 2000
January 8 - 9, 2000, South Miami, Florida
Riviera Country Club, The World of Stones by Matty Marcos
December 5, 1999, Coral Gables, Florida
20th Annual Baptist Hospital Artists Showcase
November 27 - 28, 1999, Miami, Florida
28th Annual South Miami Art Festival
November 6 - 7, 1999, South Miami, Florida
The Wirtz Gallery, Iberoamericana International V Art exhibit 1999
October 1 - 29, 1999, South Miami, Florida
Cuban Museum Fifty Artist, One Hundred works, a silent Art auction
September 24, 1999, Coral Gables, Florida
Art '99, Brickell Equities Corporation,
July 15 - 30, 1999, Miami, florida
XX Hemispheric Congress of Latin Chambers of Commerce aid Industry
April 28 - May 1, 1999, Raddison Cetre, Miami, Florida
Art Encounter 99, Sol Gallery
March 19, 1999, Coconut Grove, Florida
15TH Annual Art and Craft festival
February 20 - 21, 1999, South Miami, Florida
Third Annual Colors of the Earth Art festival
September 19, 1998, Homestead, Florida
Cuban Hispanic Week Art Exhibit, Miami Dade Community College
March 1981, Miami, Florida
CEPA Artists' Plastic Arts Exhibit, Latin American Fraternal Association
October 9 - 12, 1980, Miami, Florida
Cuban Artists' Arts Exhibit, Latin American Fraternal Association, Knights of Colombus,
May 12 - 13, 1979, Miami, Florida
CEPA,
Biscayne college Bilingual Institute
December 1997, Miami, Florida
Trade Fair of the Americans
March 8 - 9, 1978, Miami, Florida
CEPA,
Bacardi Art gallery
December 1997, Miami, Florida
CEPA Hispanic Week, Miami Dade Public Library System
October 8 - 10, 1977, Miami, Florida
Arts Crafts Exhibit, Miami International Folk festival
May 16 - 27, 1977, Miami, Florida
CEPA Art Exhibition, Koubek Center
April 29 - May 1, 1977, Miami, Florida
Art Museum
February 1977, Miami, Forida
Painting and Sculptures Exhibits, Mercy College Center for Bilingual Education
January 27 - 30, 1977, Miami, Florida
Cuban Artists, University Of Miami (50 Cubans Artists)
November 1 - 5, 1976, Coral Gables, Florida
Cuban Artists, Miami, Rainbow Art Galleries
November 1 - 5, 1976, Miami, Florida
Cuban Painters, Dade federal
August-September, 1976, Miami, Florida
Art Show - Pan American Week, Bergen Community College
April 1975, Paramus, New Jersey
International Painting Competition
1974, Mallorca, Spain
Salón de Otoño
1973, Madrid Spain
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
The World of Stones by Matty Marcos, Tete Restaurant
September 7, 2003, Miami, Florida
The World of Stones by Matty Marcos, The Florida Museum of Hispanic & Latin
American Art
October 1 - 30, 1999, Coral Gables, Florida
The Work of Stones by Matty Marcos, D'aluart Café, Art Exhibit
December 18 - 31, 1998, Miami, Florida
Matty Marcos Art Exhibit, Brickell Equilies Corporation
July 10, August 10, 1998, Miami, Florida
Matty Marcos Exhibit, Miami Dade Community College
1981, Miami, Florida
Matty Marcos Bacardi Exhibit, Bacardi Gallery
June 13 - 25, 1977, Miami, Florida
Matty Marcos Art Exhibit, Florida International University
March 1977, Miami, Florida
Art and Curiosity Shop
March 1976, Miami, Florida
Latin Chamber of commerce
November 1976, Miami, Florida
Dume Teather
October 1975, New York, New York
West New York City Hall
July 1975, New Jersey
AWARDS
Sundays on the Mile – Carnival Miami – Kiwanis Mixed Media First Place Award
March 4 - 5, 2006, Miami, Florida
Miami Exclusive Magazine, Premios "Nosotros"
December 7, 2000, Miami, Florida
Miami Dade County Florida - Certificate Of Appreciation
October 1, 1999 Miami, Florida
Telemundo - Channel 51. Noticiero
July 15, 1999, Miami, Florida
Miami Dade County Florida -, Certificate of Appreciation
October 1, 1999, Miami, Florida
Third Annual Colors of the Earth Art festival, First Place
September 19, 1998, Homestead, Florida
GEMS- Que Pasa Miami, Cable Channel 44
September 11 - 13, 1998, Miami, Florida
Nuestro Orgullo, Esteban Lamela, Univision-Channel 23
July 31, 1998, Miami, Florida
Gran Orden Martiana del Merito Ciudadano, Cuban Lyceum inc.
May 28, 1977, Miami, Florida
Bicentennial of the United States
July 4, 1976, Paramus, New Jersey
Lo
que un amigo dijo de mi ...
Esta mujer siempre nada a favor
de los sueños
Y regresa hasta los limites del
rio
Con una cesta de piedras lavadas
En las soperas de Ochún y Yemayá,
Con los otanes mágicos de la
ceiba,
Como una buena cazadoras de milagros
O la sacerdotisa de las playas,
de los peces,
De las palmas.
Esta mujer nos devuelve de las
aguas
Sus mujeres, sus guajiros con
gallos
Y hasta una luna deslumbrada de colores,
Que rueda por las guardarayas,
entre las piñas
Y los mameyes, hasta las puertas
del bohío y las guitarras.
En sus manos se tejen las trampas
Para los tomeguines y las cayenas,
O las trenzas de una guajira
Que reparte el guarapo, en las
jícaras de coco
En los guateques, en las parrandas.
A esta mujer solo basta mirarle
a los ojos
Para saber, quién lanzó la primera
piedra.
Tonada para Matty Marcos
Abril 7, 2002
Miami, Florida
Josevelio
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