Breza
Cecchini
Breza Cecchini (Oviedo, 1976), currently lives and works in Nava (Asturias).
Her painting could be described as a tale narration, mysterious and allegorical, but also very sincere and honest.
This "invisible narrative", which Breza pours into her canvases, is made up of characters such as the forest, the mist, the humid green, the overcast gray, the wolf that stalks, and the mare that gallops. Her painting is anecdotal and affective: her memories are its storage and its roots lays in her everyday environment. And all this "invisible narrative", conclusively, constitutes the architectures of her own self.
However, although in traditional narratives the wolf is a sign of danger, of approaching the wild and the unknown, in Breza's works, the traditional roles can be rearranged until the characters become some sot of accomplices. Sometimes even new uncensored contexts develop, such as a strong erotic tension between the animal and the girl-woman, in which nature, the disturbing, the instinctive and the psyche as untamed territory serve as backdrop.
In this story Breza invites us to get to know her "invisible narrative", to read between the lines, to decode the established imaginaries, to transgress the norm. In short, to go out into the woods.
Breza Cecchini began her sculpture studies at the Oviedo School of Art in 1998. After completing her internship in the specialty of Stone, she also studied the specialties of Engraving and Printing Techniques, obtaining recognition for her final project. She received a scholarship at the Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, where she furthered his studies. She participates in several editions of the painting course-meeting of Albarracín in 2005 and 2007, organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid and the Santa María de Albarracín Foundation. Furthermore, she completes her training with workshops in engraving, welding, sculpture, ceramics, engobes, textile and dyeing techniques that allow her to develop a multidisciplinary practice.
She has had solo and group exhibitions in different galleries and art centers such as the Barjola Museum, the Espacio Líquido Gallery, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, La Stanza or Espacio Local in Gijón; Sala Borrón, Dos Ajolotes Espacio de Arte, Sala Estudio Pablo de Lillo or the Texu and Lucía Dueñas galleries in Oviedo; the Octógono Gallery, the Municipal Center of Art and Exhibitions (CMAE), the Palace of Ferrera and the House of Culture of Avilés; the As Quintas Room in La Caridad; Valey Cultural Center of Castrillón in Piedras Blancas; the Gloria Helmound Gallery, the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, as well as other spaces in different Spanish communities, Belgium and France. She also participated in several projects and contemporary art fairs such as ARCO, Estampa, Marte, Feriarte, La Noche Blanca, the Festival Mujeres Mirando Mujeres, Obertura Carabanchel or MásQueLibros, among others. Her work is part of the collections of many public and private collections, both nationally and internationally. She has also been recognized with numerous awards in various contests and competitions.