Francisco Souto: Ecos de la Memoria

FRANCISCO SOUTO Ecos de la memoria

FRANCISCO SOUTO Ecos de la memoria

(Memory echoes)

Ecos (China) #1, #2, #3, #4, 2012. Digital pigment print, 11� x 11 1/2�

Ecos de la memoria is an exhibition structured around a sensorial trajectory rather than organized by media or chronology. Every piece developed itself as a direct response of my recent travels to Venice, Florence, Mexico, China and Barcelona. The central preoccupation of this new body of work is the mystery of being in the world and how one becomes aware of unpretentious moments in the visually stimulating nature of travel. All these works were slowly conceived as visual responses to small fragmented memories within the inventory of images collected.

These unpretentious memories refused to stop echoing in my mind well after I returned home. They became irresistible haunting echoes longing to become testimonies of visual awareness. As these sensorial reverberations transformed themselves into this new body of work I became aware that whatever happen to one self should be considered a resource material, all things have been presented to us for a purpose, and art should be considered a way of thinking through an image as a testimony of a life lived.

Francisco Souto

Seascape #3 Barcelona, Spain, 2011. Graphite on paper, 23” x 60”

Mont Blanc #3, 2012. Graphite on paper mounted on wood, 8” x 24”

Seascape #2 Venice, Italy, 2012. Graphite on paper, 23” x 60”

Mont Blanc #2, 2012. Graphite on paper, 23” x 60”

FRAN CISCO SOUTO: SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Born in Mérida, Venezuela.

Lives and works in the US since 1997

EDUCATION

2002 2000

M.F.A B.F.A

The Ohio State University Herron School of Art

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

SELECTED PUBLIC COL LE C T I O N S

Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, R.O.C. The National Museum of Art, Romania Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Japan Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Blanton Museum of Art, Texas Lakeview Museum of Art, Illinois MuseoGrabado, México Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Print Cabinet Mondial de L’estampe et de la Gravure Originale, France Amity Art Foundation, Connecticut Sprint Corporate Art Collection, Washington MUNO The No-Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico Fonds d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France Private collections nationally and internationally

SELECTED AWARDS

Honorable Mention at the 2011 Russia International Mezzotint Festival. Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, Russia.

Nebraska Arts Council 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship Award. Nebraska Arts Council, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Special Prize, 7th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan Selected Prize, 12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, R.O.C. Ex aequo Prize, International Mini-Print Biennial, Cluj, Romania Honorable Mention, 7eme Mondial de L’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale Triennale de Chamalieres, France International Award, 6th British International Print Exhibition, United Kingdom Juror award, 2005 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, Hawaii Special Prize, 6th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan Juror Award and Purchase Award, Sixty Square Inches 14th Biennial Small Print Exhibition, Indiana Savoir-Faire Award, Boston Printmakers 2003 North America Print Exhibition, Massachusetts

7eme Mondial de L’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale - Triennale de Chamalieres, France

The International Mini-Print Biennial, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Romania 6th British International Print Exhibition, Gracefield Arts Centre, United Kingdom

7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art 2006, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, India 2005 IV Novosibirsk Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art,

Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia

2005 Hilo National Invitational Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii

Los Angeles Print Society 18th National Exhibition, The Armory Center for the Arts, California 6th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan

The Minnesota National Print Biennial 2004, Minnesota

S E L E C T E D RE VI E WS

L.Kent Wolgamott. “Views through frosted glass ” Lincoln Journal Star. Sunday, April 24, 2011. Lincoln, Nebraska.

Araceli Rodarte Solorzano, “Centro de Museograbado imparte taller con experto en mezzotinta,” La Jornada, México, May 2010 Michael Krainak, “Another Nebraska,” Omaha Reader, Omaha, Nebraska, February 2010 L. Kent Wolgamott, “Time and Memory: Striking images make up Francisco Souto: La memoria del tiempo at Kiechel,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2010 Kim Buckley, “Francisco Souto: Professor printmaker,” Omaha Reader, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2009 Sofia Gamboa Duarte, “Francisco Souto: la mezzotinta, una meditación casi filosófica,” La Jornada, México, May 2008 Theo Jean Kenyon. “Educated Risk: Bradley featuring artist who pushes limits of mezzotint,” P eoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois, November 2007 Mondial de l’Estampe. “Les quatre grands prix déeernés, heir soir, avant le début officiel aujourd’hui,” La Montage, France, October 2006 “La Vocación: Prints of Francisco Souto,” Printmaking Today: International Magazine of Contemporary Graphic Art, Winter 2005 issue. Published in the UK David Newman, “Setting to work: Francisco Souto Prints,” Brookhaven College School of

the A rts, Texas, February 2005 Pamela S. Thompson, “For the love of prints,” L Magazine, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 2005 Julianna Thibodeaux, “Stars and Spider Webs,” Nuvo Newspaper, Indiana, February 2003

SELECTED SOLO EXHIB I T I O N S

2011 Por el rio del tiempo (Through the river of time). Kiechel Fine Arts Gallery.

Lincoln, Nebraska.

2010 Francisco Souto: New Work, Fonds d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France 2009 La memoria del tiempo, Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Nebraska Now: Francisco Souto, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska 2007 El otro, el mismo (The self, and the other), Janu Hartmann Center Art Gallery, Peoria, Illinois 2006 Francisco Souto: New Work, Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois Francisco Souto: Recent Prints, Slugfest Gallery, Texas 2005 Francisco Souto, Brookhaven College School of Arts, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXH I B I T I O N S

2011 Another Nebraska: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Omaha, Nebraska.

3rd Qijiang International invitational Print Exhibition. Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Chongqing, China Epicenter/Epicentro: Re Tracing the plains. On the occasion of the 54th Venice Biennale International Arts Exhibition. Venice, Italy 2010 State of the States: A Contemporary Survey of American Printmaking, Texas A&M University Galleries

A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University New York International Print Fair 2010, The Park Avenue Armory, New York Works on Paper, New York City 2010, New York 2009 Maestros del Grabado Latinoamericano Contemporaneo, Italy Multi-media Artist: A Focus on Photography, Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, Nebraska 2008 Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan Works on Paper New York City, The Park Avenue Armory, New York 2007 New York International Print Fair, New York City, New York

Action/Interaction Book/Art, Columbia College, Illinois 2006 12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, R.O.C.

K I E C H E L

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5733 South 34th Street, Suite 300 / Lincoln, Ne 68516 402.420.9553 / gallery@kiechelart.com / www.kiechelart.com

Exhibition Dates October 19 - November 23, 2012 Opening Friday, October 19, 6 - 8 PM (ABOVE) Small Seascape (Barcelona) #1, 2012. Graphite on paper mounted on panel, 8” x 8 1/2” (cover) Cityscape #2 Zacatecas, Mexico, 2012. Graphite on paper, 23” x 60” (inside) Cityscape #1 Venice, Italy, 2012. Graphite on paper, 23” x 60”