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Rocio de la Villa (Madrid, 1959) is a Spanish university professor, art historian, curator, researcher and art critic. She has edited and collaborated in the edition of distinct catalogues and publications related with the art and the position of the woman in the artistic world. In 2014 she was rewarded with the Prize MAV in the modality of Criticism of art.[1] She also goes by the names Rocio de la Villa Ardura and Rocio Villa-Ardura.
Rocio De La villa | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Other names | Rocio de la Villa Ardura Rocio Villa-Ardura. |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Art historian
editDe la Villa is Professor in the Autonomous University of Madrid of Aesthetics and Art Theory. She obtains the professorship of Aesthetics and Art Theory.in the same university. Besides she gives class in the Master of History of Contemporary Art and visual Culture that offers the Museo Reina Sofia.[2] Also she gives classes in the Master of Studies Interdisciplinares of Gender at the Woman´s Studies Institute.[3]
President of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts as of 2013[4] and a co-founder of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV), of which has been president between the years 2009 and 2012.[5][6]
She has directed different cycles and conferences such as the first European Congress of Aesthetics celebrated in Madrid (2011), the cycle of conferences Heroines and the symposium Agencia Feminista y empowerment en artes visuales, both celebrated in the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. Also she organised, together with the professor Jesús Carrillo Castillo, the first Congress on Art and Woman (Contraposiciones. Mujeres en el arte actual) in the Autonomous University of Madrid (2001).[7][8][9][10]
Publications
editAs critical of art collaborates in Cultura/s of the newspaper La Vanguardia, in the El Cultural of the newspaper El Mundo and other specialized magazines in contemporary art: ars Magazine, ExitBook, ExitExpress, Dardo Magazine, Magazine Matador, etc. Also, she has co-edited and written publications like Guía del usuario de arte actual (Tecnos, 2003), Guía del Arte hoy (Tecnos, 2003) or Mujeres en el sistema del arte en España (EXIT/MAV, 2012).[11]
In 2012 she founded and, since then she directs the on-line magazine M-arteyculturavisual.[12]
She has contributed to the interpretation of the work of women artists in numerous individual catalogues and group shows, like Cien años en femenino, Genealogías feministas en el arte español: 1960-2010 and In-Out House. Circuitos de género y violencia en la era tecnológica.[13][14]
She is the founder of M-art and Visual Culture.
Curator
editLike curator of exhibitions, has organised in 2001 Victoria-Encinas. Non Erectus in the Sala Alameda at Málaga, the group exhibitions Revuelta and In/Habitantes at the Centro de Arte Joven in Madrid (2002) and Extraversiones (2003) also in the Sala Alameda. In the frame of the XXV Anniversary of the Woman Institute of Studies of the UAM (2004) she organized of the feminist video-art program MICRONARRACIONES. Also she has organised the XVII edition of Circuitos 2005. Artes Plásticas y Fotografía and the exhibition of Creacion Injuve. 2011 of the Instituto de la Juventud.[15]
In 2015 she had curated Registros Domesticados in the space of Tabacalera (Promotion of the Art) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, in which it was exhibited the retrospective show by the Spanish artist Marisa González, this exhibition travel to the CGAC Museum in Santiago de Compostela in 2016.[16] And a selection of the feminist work by Marisa González was shown in the Sala Amós Salvador de Logroño, España in 2019.
References
edit- ^ "Premios". Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Máster oficial en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura visual | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía" [Master's Degree in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture]. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (in Spanish). 2023. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Master - Estudios Interdisciplinares de Género" [Master - Interdisciplinary Gender Studies]. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Rocío de la Villa, Presidenta de la Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes" [Rocío de la Villa, President of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts]. masdearte.com (in European Spanish). 27 December 2013. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "Junta Directiva" [Board of Directors]. SEyTA (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "MAV - Mujeres en las Artes Visuales". www.mav.org.es. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Congreso Europeo de Estética" [European Congress of Aesthetics]. Autonomous University of Madrid (in Spanish). 2010. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Curso monográfico: Heroínas" [Monographic course: Heroines]. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (in Spanish). 2011. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Agencia Feminista y empowerment en artes visuales" [Feminist Agency and Empowerment Symposium in Visual Arts]. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (in Spanish). 2011. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Primeras Jornadas de Arte y Mujer en la UAM: 'Contraposiciones. Mujeres en el Arte Actual'" [First Conference on Art and Women at the UAM: 'Contrapositions. Women in Current Art']. Estudios Online (in Spanish). 2001. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "Rocío de la Villa Ardura". Arte Informado (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "m-arte y cultura visual". m-arte y cultura visual (in European Spanish). Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ "MUSAC". musac.es. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "In-Out House. Circuitos de género y violencia en la era tecnológica (Desplegable) | ACVG | Arte contra violencia de género". artecontraviolenciadegenero.org. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ ARTEINFORMADO. "Rocío de la Villa Ardura. Crítico/Periodista, Comisario, Investigador/Docente | ARTEINFORMADO". ARTEINFORMADO (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Marisa González. Registros domesticados - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte". www.mecd.gob.es. Retrieved 26 January 2016.