WATERCOLOUR
ACUARELA
JULIO
CASANOVA
Exhibitions
1982 - 2006 Exhibitions in Sweden
1990 House of culture in Santa - Cruz, Bolivia
1993 Râdhuset en Oslo, Norway
1994 House of culture in Moscow, Russia
1995 Modern Art Museum, Jarkov, Ukraine
1996 O dense, Denmark
1999 Gallery "Las Brisas" Acapulco, Mexico
2001 V International Room of Independent Contemporary Artists, Barcelona, España
2002 Latinamerican Museum, Miami, USA
2003 "Rudic" Gallery,Acapulco, Mexico
2004 Latinamerican Museum, Miami, USA
2005 Watercolour Museum, Toluca, Mexico
2006 Swedish Organisation Ornitológica, Öland, Suecia
2008 Galería "Los Andes", San Cristóbal, Venezuela
2009 Alianza francesa, Caracas, Venezuela
Julio Cesar Cuéllar Casanova, was born in Santa-Cruz, Bolivia ,moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1981.
He started exhibiting his naturalistic work early into the 80s, many of them aligned with the defense of the ecology. And due to this virtue he was awarded a price of honnor in Denmark in a International event against the atomic bomb With his almost flawless watercolour technique he delights us with hyper realist artpieces filled with detalis and he takes us out of the the rutine with his colourful paintings.
The majority of his paintings are owned by collectors and public entities. Also, Casanova is represented by private collectors in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Russia, Island, Ukraine (Modern Museum de Jarkov) Mexico, USA, Venezuela and Spain.
Comments and Reviews
"Thus, we are before an artist of light, everything else is a product of Casanova. Giving us that miracle back is enough for his work to be one of the most important within the aesthetic of international realistic watercolour. An artist with a particular instinct that understands our nature with all its forms and shades in an individual and constant way. A painting by Casanova banishes loneliness with its infinite details of exceptionally developed strong colours, they allow company without fear or rest".
Slava Ptrov. Moscu. 1994
"Casanova seems to paint wiith a surgical brush that shows it all to the eager eye. Casanova has not invented a
technique, but he immerses himself into the origins of oldschool watercolour painting, providing total mastery of the expressive resourses of this pictorical technique by means of a balanced combination of dry and wet brush strokes, the control of glaze fading, gradation and tonal harmony of modeling and the blended resolution of the chromatic range in the service of the unmistakably poetic language of his paintings. But it's better to let the image of his work spreak for itself".
Roger Ericsson, Stockholm 2001
""Man of two creative climates, Casanova is an exceptional case when it comes to painting. Born nearby the savage bolivian amazone, adopted aswell his aesthetic temper from rigorness of the Baltic cold of the Scandinavian mainland. Therefore, he's able to paint with warmth in the morning and gelid at night on the same day without loosing quality nor atmospheric belonging"
Jorge Mancilla Torres, México 2004
Comentarios y Críticas
"Nos hallamos así ante un artísta de luz, todo lo demás es un producto de Casanova. Basta con devolvernos ese
milagro para que su obra sea ya una de las más importantes dentro de la estética realista de la acuarela internacional. Un artísta con un instinto particular para plasmar nuestra naturaleza con todos sus matíces de una manera individual y constante. Una acuarela de Casanova aleja la soledad, con sus infinitos detalles de colores fuertes trabajados excepionalmente, permiten una compañía sin temor ni descanso".
Slava Ptrov, Moscu.1994
"Casanova parece que pinta con el pincel quirurgico, que todo lo muestra al ojo ávido. Casanova no inventa una técnica sino que se sumerge en los origenes del antigüo acuarelismo, acreditando dominio total de los recursos expresivos de esta técnica pictórica, mediante una equilibrada combinación de la pincelada en seco y húmedo, el control de los fundidos de las veladuras, del degradado y la armonía tonal del modelado, la matizada resolución de la gama crómatica, al servicio de su inconfundible lenguaje poético de sus acuarelas. Pero es mejor que sea la imagen de su obra la que hable."
Roger Ericsson, Estocolmo 2001
"Hombre de dos climas creativos, Casanova es un caso excepcional en la pintura. Nacido en el claro selvático de una colindancia amazónica boliviana, adoptó también su temperamento estético a los rigores del frío báltico de la Penninsula Escandinava. Puede, pues, pintar en un mismo dia, cálido por la mañana y gélido por la tarde sin mengua de su calidad y pertenencia atmósferica".
Jorge Mancilla Torres, México 2004