Curriculum
Mery Godigna Collet, born in Caracas Venezuela, 1959, has participated in 34 solo and more than 40 group
exhibitions in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, New York,
Miami, New
Mexico and Texas.
As her thinking on the visual arts evolved, her ideas and attitude on how to approach art has changed.
Her interest in
ecological matters has grown and the "concept" has become the "nuclei" of her work.
The concept and the technique
run parallel though morphogenesis principles, as the artist acts as an “activator” producing a cause in
the
unconventional materials she uses. The final “consequence” allows her to reach her goal: Portraying the
subject with
the subject. In her works, she shows a tendency to minimalism where the only statement is a call to
reflection.
For more than forty years, she has been developing a work of great formal coherence that explores
different
perceptive, mental, and emotional states. The unifying thread through the years has been the rigorous
research
about the “interference” related to societal and ecological subjects and materials and their connection
with the
subject. By assembling and tensioning objects and raw materials, color and light, her works open as much
as they
conceal physical and mental spaces.
Searching for vertiginous gaps between vocabularies of shapes, she explores the gap between intimate and
social,
the existential and the everyday, the environment and degradation.
Mery Godigna Collet's artistic proposal is based on 4 research projects involving new techniques
that reveal ways
"concepts" translate through "matter." Matter, Time, and Space (Materia, Tiempo, y
Espacio) 1997, Done with Fibers
(Hecho con Fibra) 2003, Metallic Light (La Luz Metalica) 2006, Language and Memory (2022).
Her works are at the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia (MACZUL) in Venezuela, the
Galleria
D'Arte Moderno Aroldo Bonzagni di Cento (Italy), the Quai Branly Museum, Latin American Art Museum
and
Petroleum Museum in Texas. She has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Siderurgica del Orinoco, the Museum
of
Discurso de Agostura in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, the Centro Romulo Gallegos of Latin American Studies
(CELARG) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Venezuela. Monument Museum "La Rocca"
in Cento,
Italy, the Museum Pallazo Estense (Italian branch of the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg), the Centre
D'Art
Puyguerin-Vayolles, Monts sur Guesnes, France and the Museum of the Americas in Miami, USA.