"Marcela Iriarte's passion for collage took form at the Academy of Fine Art of Rome, where she developed and refined her artistic style and research. 

Her subsequent studies in set design at Italy’s National Film School and her love for cinema, together with her work experience as set designer for film and television in several international productions, defined not only her subjects, but also the silver screen-like atmosphere in her paintings and installations.

Her work explores the idea of memorabilia applied to the art of glued paper. How far can our memory betray us? Where is the limit between lived memories and dreamt remembrances?

Assembling different shapes taken from photo albums, pictures, newspapers, film posters, bits of colored hand-made paper, portions of other artwork, and such, glued to a canvas or a box, her work recreates a new past.

She follows the paths of an obsessive collector but instead of conserving she cuts and pastes, recreating new layers of the same imagined dream.

She currently lives and works between London and Paris, where she has also collaborated with several well known visual artists."

- 291 Est Gallery

STUDIES___________________________________________________________________

2003:    Film Set Design at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinema di Cinecittà, Rome, Italy.

2000:    Painting and Theatre Set Design at the Academy for Fine Arts of Rome, Italy.

1996:     Painting at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS­­­­______________________________________________________

2010:

Monika Bobinska Gallery ( London). Stardust Boogie Woogie. Collective Exhibition
Spazio Callisti Gallery (Perugia). Collective exhibition with the Hysterical Women art group
The Old Police Station Gallery (London). Collective exhibition

2009:

Gallery Studio D.R (Rome). Collective exhibition with the Hysterical Women art group
Stoke Newington Gallery (London). Collective exhibition with the Hysterical Women art group
Galleria 291 Est (Rome)

2008:

Rich Mix Gallery (London). Collective exhibition

Pre 2008:

Accademia del Superfluo (Rome)
Gallery Studio DR (Rome)
Einaudi Gallery (Rome)
Balic Gallery (Rome)
La Cuba d’Oro (Rome)
School of Fine Arts (Rome)

WORK EXPERIENCE ________________________________________________________

Fine Art Assistant (2007 - 2009) Fine art painting, project management, exhibition design, for several contemporary artists (Alice Anderson, Bruce Dazel Atherton, Marc Quinn)

Set Decorator / Set Dresser / Art Director / Art Dept Assistant (2003 - 2009) For various feature films, short films, TV series, TV advertisements.

See also => Marcela's profile on LinkedIn