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"Allons enfants de...l'Iraq", Mateo Romero, peinture acrylique sur bois, 70 x 90 cms, 2007. |
Contemporary Pueblo painter Mateo Romero was born and raised in Berkeley, California. Although his cultural background is an urban one, through his father Santiago Romero and his connection to their Southern Keresan Cochiti people, this experience includes much of the Rio Grande Pueblo world as well. Mateo attended Dartmouth College and studied with acclaimed artists Ben Frank Moss and Varujan Boghosian. He received an MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. Mateo is an award-winning artist who has exhibited internationally in Canada and in the United States. He is currently a Dubin Fellow in painting at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, NM, and paints in his studio at Pojoaque Pueblo where he lives with his wife, Melissa, and their children Erik, Povi, and Rain. |
Mateo Romero : un peintre anti-conventionnel, voire subversif. |
Dans ses moments de paix, comme les soldats amérindiens à Bagdad, il rêve des traditions indiennes. Ses peintures de danseurs (Crown Dancers, Deer Dancers) évoquent les retrouvailles dans les pueblos lors des rituels. La spiritualité traditionnelle s’explique collectivement et reconstitue le tissu social. Mais les peintures de paix de Mateo Romero sont aussi flamboiement (Fire), représentations d’instants extatiques à la faveur desquels les danseurs sont transportés par le rythme des tambours et des chants. Ainsi ses peintures de paix expriment-elles aussi la tension, le combat intérieur que livrent aujourd’hui les Indiens pour affirmer leur affirmer leur continuité cultuelle et culturelle. |
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