"KALEIDOSCOPIO 4" Collage

Artist, illustrator and Architect, with a long and distinguished career in the disciplines of drawing, painting and illustration.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 17, 1953, after her parents moved from Spain at the onset of that country’s Civil War. Engineers and Architects like Fernando and Amos Salvador Rodrigañez, from the Rioja region, are an integral part of her ancestry.

Early years

Carmen grew up surrounded by books, nature and animals, as well as pencil-made architectural plans, reproductions of Picasso, Dalí and Miró, Calder mobiles, fabrics, embroidery, freshly cut dresses, sewing and needle threading of grandmothers, in addition to her mother's book binding works.

In 1994, Art critic and curator Federica Palomero wrote about Carmen’s work:
“The artist has not taken her figurative forms through the paths of abstraction (in the sense of ‘abstracting’), but has rather concealed them with other already abstract forms. Her pictorial work fits easily within the new abstraction, nourished by informalism, which has constituted a significant trend in Venezuelan art since the 1980s. Her contribution to current abstraction is founded on the ambiguity of space”.

“Carmen Salvador goes to the essential, dissolving form into referential structures that evoke a pictorial exercise on the skin”. María Luz Cárdenas, 1991.

“Carmen Salvador bases her work on the creation of spaces that appear as the background of the image by superimposing forms –structures–, in the manner of a ‘mesh’ or ‘net’, of pure and contrasting colors that are distinguished by their organic appearance, recalling honeycombs”. Susana Benko, 2015.