Biography
BIOGRAPHY
MARIA TERESA GONZALEZ RAMIREZ was born in Mexico City in 1967. After her studies in Sciences of Communication and Public Relations in Mexico, she started her artistic studies with the Academy San Carlos in Mexico City as well as the Academy di Brera and the Battaglia Foundry in Milan in Italy.
Living and working between Mexico and Europe, she took part in several cultural expositions and events in museums, private galleries, and in public and industrial spaces .
In 2008, the Municipality of Milan decreed her the prestigious prize “EL LATINO DE ORO 2008” in the
category ARTE Y CULTURA at the Theatre Dal Verme. She was also selected for the Finale of “PREMIO CELESTE 2009 ” in the category “Installations & Sculptures” in the Factory Borroni Bollate in Milan.
In the words of the artist: “In my artistic research of more than one decade, I have always probed the human heart in search of this interior LIGHT which we all have, but that we generally hide. I think that in this historic moment in which we live, crossed by a major economic crisis and an alarming moral crisis, it is becoming essential to us to find this LIGHT of truth… and I think that only culture will be able to save us and stop the rapid spiritual desertification. ”
In her works, Maria Teresa Gonzalez Ramirez shows a great capacity to manipulate various materials and the surrounding space which has thus become a big part of her work.
The LIGHT, a recurrent icon, sometimes ironic, but always an axe of reflection in the artistic search of Maria Teresa Gonzalez Ramirez; this subject is not only represented by rings and their bulbs, but also by the reproduction in other materials; on certain occasions, there will remain only traces which have transpierced even the most resistant of materials.
The artist illustrates with time an artistic maturity which seems to give up every time the bond with a material object projecting herself in a more conceptual dimension, ever the while keeping this personal and unique imprint that distinguishes her work.
Maria Teresa Gonzalez Ramirez lives and work to Varese. Italy
