Background
Pallares was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, on November 4, 1980.
Av. Dr. Río de la Loza 148, Doctores, 06720 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Marina Pallares started her education at CEDART High School, a part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura.
Av. Dr. Río de la Loza 148, Doctores, 06720 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Marina Pallares started her education at CEDART High School, a part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura.
Pallares was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, on November 4, 1980.
Marina Pallares started her education at CEDART High School, a part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. She always enjoyed painting and drawing. When she was 13 years old, Pallares started to paint more frequently. She dedicated herself to painting, drawing and printing since 2000. In 2004 Marina Pallares received a degree in Visual Arts.
Later she took numerous courses to study a variety of techniques, including oil, acrylic and watercolour painting, encaustic, graphite, charcoal and prints. She has studied with renowned Mexican artists, such as Jose Luis Malo, Alejandro Camacho, Enrique Ruíz Rojo, and Gustavo Alvarado.
At the age of 20, Pallares decided to dedicate herself to the Plastic Arts, changing the orientation of her career from Photography to Painting. Over time, she managed to develop her own style, one that can best be described as magic realism executed via diverse pictorial and graphic techniques, including oil painting, linocut, and metal engraving. Her works reflect a love for nature and dreaming.
In 2001 her first solo exhibition took place, during which she immediately sold out the entire collection on display. After that, she has exhibited her artworks individually and collectively in Jalisco, San José del Cabo and Hamburg, Germany.
To date, she has had 13 individual exhibitions and has also participated in more than 40 group exhibitions. She continues to receive commissions for paintings and mosaics, among other projects. Her works are popular among prominent Mexican professionals, including financier Jorge de Jesús Montes Guerra (CEO of Bansí), publicist Alejandro Sierra (co-founder of Vértice Comunicación), lawyer Praxedis Padilla, and agrarian attorney Rubén Ávila Tena.
The arrival of abundance
#27: El Nopal (Nopal)
#07: La Botella (The Bottle)
Tree of life
Arlés in deep sleep
Espérame Tantito (Wait Up a Moment)
Canciones Para Reconstruir Un Corazón (Songs for Reconstructing a Heart)
#24: El Mariachi (Mariachi)
#17: La Luna (The Moon)
#34: El Cacto (Cactus)
#03: La Dama (The Lady)
#02: El Diablito (The Little Devil)
#15: El Alambique (The Still)
#25: El Volcán (The Volcano)
The parachute
#28: La Calavera (The Skull)
#19: El Horno (The Oven)
#35: El Pato (The Duck)
The forest that watches me
#01: El Gallo (The Rooster)
A discovery
#22: La Sandía (Watermelon)
Animals
#05: El Paraguas (The Umbrella)
#16: La Mano (The Hand)
#10: El Gato (The Cat)
#26: El Mundo (The World)
#23: El Músico (The Musician)
#20: El Sarape (The Sarape or Blanket)
Música Natural (Natural Music)
#13: La Bandera (The Flag)
A day of fishing in lunar seas
Esperando (Waiting)
Adiós Pelo (Goodbye Hair)
Attached to a memory
#18: El Borracho (The Drunk)
Weaving to the moon
#30: El Sol (The Sun)
#12: La Muerte (Death)
Véngase Pá Ca Mi Chaparrita (Come Here, My Little One)
#04: El Tequila (Tequila)
Por La Calle (Through the Streets)
#31: La Maceta (The Flowerpot)
#29: La Escalera (The Staircase)
La Tiendita (The Little Store)
Composición En Amarillo No. 1 (Composition in Yellow, No. 1)
#21: El Corazón (The Heart)
#08: El Barril (The Barrel)
The alchemist cook
#09: El Árbol (The Tree)
Pase Usted (Please Go Ahead/Please Enter)
Tolerancia (Tolerance)
#06: La Sirena (The Mermaid)
#14: El Jimador (The Jimador)
Camouflage
#32: El Pescado (The Fish)
#33: El Templo (The Church)
#11: El Agave (Agave)
Los Inventos (Inventions)
#36: El Tren (The Train)
The magic carousel
The soul of Playa del Carmen
Pallares defines herself as an eternal seeker. She doesn't like labeling herself or her work. As soon as someone tries to place her in a category or classification, she rebels and changes.
Quotations:
"I enjoy having the biggest array of instruments available to express myself. In other words, I adapt techniques according to the theme that I'm working on. I am very careful about my work, and I don't suit mainstream contemporary art because I think it is distant from the viewer. Let's just say it seems to suit only the few who can understand complex concepts."
"I prefer to paint so that the majority of the people can understand and appreciate my work, and that my technique draws their attention. On the other hand, I don't want it to seem like something improvised that anyone could do. My focus is making works of art of good technical quality, with a concept, with feeling, and as creatively original as possible."
"I like realism, surrealism, impressionism and most other '-isms.' My favorite artists include Vincent Van Gogh, Remedios Varo, Leopoldo Méndez, Picasso, Francisco Corzas, Rufino Tamayo, Gustav Klimt, and Toulouse Lautrec. And, my favorite techniques include linocut, oils, graphite and mixed media."
"Most of my themes revolve around people and ordinary activities such as drinking coffee, riding a bike or dancing. Although sometimes I can be more complicated and express my dreams, my feelings, and other personal issues."
"Fine Arts to me symbolize the engine that makes me get up every morning."
