Nelda Ramos
{{Short description|Argentine performance artist (born 1977)}}
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| birth_place = Caballito, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Nelda Daniela Ramos (born October 4, 1977) is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist, curator and art educator known for her performance art.{{cite web|url = http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=22&lang=jp|title = Nelda Ramos|work = Venice International Performance Art Week|accessdate = March 24, 2015|date = 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027030658/http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=22&lang=jp|archive-date = October 27, 2017|url-status = dead}}{{cite web|url = http://www.boladenieve.org.ar/artista/4320/ramos-nelda|title = Nelda Ramos|work = Bola de Nieve|accessdate = March 24, 2015|language = Spanish}} Working with performance, object and photography, the dynamics of Ramos' works are often reflecting the essence and political issues of being a woman in the Latin American context. Her performance art work conveys a deep connection between nature, body and spirit, and often stimulate the audience to be fully involved into the hybridization occurring between nature and the artist.
Biography
Ramos studied visual arts and teaching at the Carlos Morel School of Fine Arts (EMBA) also known as Carlos Morel Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes in Quilmes and at National University of La Plata (UNLP), as well as engraving and printed arts. She currently works as a teacher in several educational institutions and as coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Technology for the Painting Production{{Cite web|url = http://visuales.una.edu.ar/contenidos/168-plan-de-estudios|title=Plan de Estudios Especialización en Medios y Tecnologías para la Producción Pictórica|accessdate=July 30, 2015}} at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires (former Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte).File:Nelda & balloons.jpg
Since 2000, Ramos has participated in several events related to different disciplines such as performance art, mail art and ceramics. Her works were shown in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Canada, USA, Italy and Albania.{{Cite web|url = http://www.theinc.ca/visiting-from-argentina-artists-gabriela-alonso-and-nelda-ramos/|title = Visiting from Argentina – Artists Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos|date = September 1, 2010|accessdate = March 24, 2015|website = Hamilton Artists Inc.|publisher = |last = |first = }}{{Cite web|url = http://www.geifco.org/actionart/actionart01/secciones/03-adla/index.htm|title = Arte de acción y mujer|date = |accessdate = March 24, 2015|website = geifco.org|publisher = |last = Carrizosa|first = Pedro Encarnacion|language = Spanish}}{{Cite web|url = https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/hybrid-body-poetic-body-2012/nelda-ramos|title = Nelda Ramos at the Venice International Performance Art Week|date = |access-date = 2019-11-29|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}
Ramos explains most of her roots, influences and role as a self managed artist in the Latin American context, in an online paper called "Arte de Acción. Agitación Cultural desde el Río de la Plata desde una perspectiva de la autogestión" (Action Art. Cultural Agitation in Rio de la Plata from a perspective of self-management) (In Spanish).{{Cite web|url = http://territorioteatral.org.ar/html.2/dossier/pdf/n10_2_01.pdf|title = Cultural Agitation in Rio de la Plata from a perspective of self-management|date = |access-date = 2015-01-12|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}
Curation
=Zonadeartenacción performance art festival=
Gabriela Alonso, an Argentine artist, created Zonadearte, an art gallery which wanted to show the most innovative artistic expressions located in Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires. Nelda joined Gabriela in 2006 and they organized together the festival of action art and urban interventions. Zonadeartenacción,{{cite web|url=http://www.arsomnibus.com/web/muestra/7--festival-zonadeartenaccion-2012-|title=7° Festival ZONADEARTENACCIÓN 2012. – ARSOmnibus|work=arsomnibus.com|accessdate=March 24, 2015}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=183|title = Performance, Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos|date = 2010|accessdate = March 24, 2015|website = FADO Performance Centre|publisher = |last = |first = }}{{Cite web|url = http://glasstire.com/2013/07/17/not-easy-togetherness-young-latino-artists-18-conjuntos/|title = Not Easy Togetherness. Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos|date = July 17, 2013|accessdate = March 24, 2015|website = Glasstire, Texas Visual Art|publisher = |last = Biczel|first = Dorota}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.mexic-artemuseum.org/exhibitions|title = Main: Young Latino Artists 18: Con/Juntos (June 7- September 8, 2013)|date = |accessdate = March 24, 2015|website = Mexic-Arte Museum|publisher = |last = |first = }} active until 2010, became a multi-disciplinary event that hosts exhibitions including the areas of design, clothing, object, mail art, installation art, urban interventions, visual and sonorous poetry. In spite of that, talented international and national artists participated in this festival, such as VestAndPage, Sinead O'Donnell, Irene Loughlin, and many others.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geifco.org/actionart/actionart01/eventos/EVENTOS/zonadearteaccion/index.htm|title = Zonadearte}}
References
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External links
- [http://nelda-ramos.blogspot.com/ Nelda Ramos artwork blog] (In Spanish)
- [http://neldaramosperformance.blogspot.com/ Nelda Ramos performance art blog] (In Spanish)
- [https://www.facebook.com/Nelda-Ramos-Arte-en-Acci%C3%B3n-738453869573680/ Nelda Ramos performance Facebook page] (Spanish/English)
- [http://www.nonsolocinema.com/Es-Copia-Fiel-This-is-a-true-and_26706.html This is a True and Exact Copy – Ramos at the Venice international Art Week] (In Italian)
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Category:Artists from Buenos Aires
Category:21st-century Argentine women artists