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Strokes of passion in Romy Alvarado's
pictorial vision
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by Ana Luz Velázquez
June 24, 2002. |
An evening of pen and brush took
over at L'Opera where, aside from Alvarado's paintings,
the Gómez de Ixtapa launched their erotic literature.
She tells how she was the least likely
to follow in her father's footsteps (he was a painter),
she could only manage to draw some childish lines, the
kind all children draw, a little house, a dog, but art?
Nothing. "I just couldn't get the hang of it,"
Romy Alvarado says quite often.
So for various reasons, she decided
to take a workshop for "right brain development".
Here, she was put to exercise her left and right hands
with mechanical lines, "impulsive" as they
called them, circles and more lines, over and over again
over the same space, until the pen would run out of
ink. The teacher told her that this way, she would be
able to develop any ability. "So I kept telling
my hand "Paint! Paint!" as I was doing the
exercises," she continues. "Then one day I
felt that my hand was drawing the lines with an ease
I hadn't felt before, as if something had gotten into
me, as if I were possessed… and I've been painting
ever since!"
That all happened in 1998, so Romy
Alvarado is really very new to the world of brushes
and canvases. Nevertheless, she has been the special
guest to various events like the homage to José
Luis Cuevas in 1999, and exhibitions at the Poliforum
Cultural Siquieros, the Galería Mena-che (one
of the most important ones in all of México),
the Galería La Misión SENECU and at the
"Vetrina Internazionale degli Artisiti Latino Americani"
in Florence, Italy, where she got raving reviews from
the critics and specialized media for her painting entitled
"Yo le tengo fe a mi gallo".
But nudes are the main theme of Romy's
work. "Nudes are beautiful. It is intensely fascinating
to have the chance to capture on canvas the beauty that
is the body. It's thrilling. Sometimes I end up crying."
Romy is exhibiting 14 acrylics at
L'Opera, all of them made at the workshop of the famous
painter and master, Luis Argudín. All nudes with
great expressionistic force, maybe mystical, maybe whatever
the viewer finds within. What is for sure is that none
of them need lengthy explanations to communicate something.
Romy is a mother, a grandmother and
an artist who enjoys listening to the music of painting,
the sound of the strokes that help her focus her pictorial
world in the service of art, of the mind and of the
spirit. The exhibit is entitled "Los Refinamientos
de la Pasión" (The Refinement of Passion)
and will go on for another couple of weeks.
At the inauguration of the event,
the Gómez brothers of Ixtapa, Eduardo and Juan
Manuel, demonstrated a facet of their literary creation
that few are familiar with as they seldom present their
erotic literature. Better known are story tellers, the
brothers from the clan of Ixtapa authors and co-founders
of "El Tintero" literary workshop, read fragments
and pieces where their erotic vibes shine forth, where
fantasy and imagination are evoked, where homage is
paid to life, where exploration takes place through
poetry or narrative -through rituals, ceremonies and
movements that end up honoring eroticism.
L'Opera is located at 287 Encino
St. downtown, next to the Cuale River.
analuz@pvmirror.com
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