Montserrat Mesalles

I strongly believe in recycling and resemantizing ideas and materials to turn them into new objects.
I am dedicated to the rescue of industrial waste, reconverting the pieces not just in works of art but also I grant them a new symbolic value. My mission is to revive and confer new meanings to the remains of industrial times.
All my work is a reinterpretation of the past, turning it into present.
I spent thirty years of my life collecting industrial waste, objects of all kinds and also old toys to transform them into new assemblies, my tribute to human inventions of all time .

1981-1982 University of Kansas
School of Visual Arts
University of Costa Rica 1983-1986
Bachelor of Fine Arts

SPECIALIZED COURSES
Techniques and concepts of Design & Silverware .
Processes in contemporary art , with Marcela Valdeavellano 2013
Bead Fest , Dallas , Texas 2011
Beadazzled , Washington DC 2009
Redecorator Training Program, Redecorate.com , New York 2008

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
" Objects of Design" , Klaus Steinmetz Gallery , San José , Costa Rica , 2013

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
" Art Object " National Gallery , San José , Costa Rica , 2013
" Art , music and food pairing " Artflow , San Jose Costa Rica , 2013
School of Fine Arts, University of Costa Rica , 1986