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Julia Romano
Born 1978
Lives and works in Cordoba City, Argentina
www.juliaromano.com.ar

Julia Romano’s work goes deeper into the fact that representation makes the existence of landscape possible. It is the moment the artists
start painting their surroundings on their canvases when the territory becomes landscape. Our observation is conditioned by the multiplicity
of ways in which landscape has been represented during the history of art; therefore we do not observe our surroundings in a static, unique
way, but as a plastic production.
Her work refl ects the encounter of the patches of iconography that creates the cultural imagery. These images account for another possibility
of the world, they make it up each time we observe our surroundings and project our humanness on it.

The dialogue between painting and photography, in her work, strives to be a mechanism for revealing the value of representation on
the construction of an image of the world; an excuse to recognize how art displays its power over what we see and its excellence as
a reality–maker.

JULIA ROMANO is a Professor and Licentiate in Plastic Arts from the Cordoba National University, Argentina. She has participated in numerous contests and exhibitions,
both individual and collective in Argentina, USA, Spain, China and England. She has received many distinctions and awards, including among others: 3rd prize Digital
Stamps, El Caliu Foundation, Cataluña, Spain (2003), 1st prize at the III Emergent Art Biennale. Cultural Center Spain-Cordoba. Argentina (2005); 2nd prize at the
Young Artist Contest, Cordoba, Argentina (2007); 2nd prize at the Graduated Students Prize. Cordoba National University. Argentina (2011); fi nalist at the 1st Forum of
Young Artists. Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2011); fi nalist at the Andreani Award. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013-14); fi nalist at Brighton Photo Fringe 2013, Brighton,
UK; honourable Mention at the Dave Bown Projects, New York, USA (2014); fi nalist at the Open West, Gloucester, UK (2014); fi nalist at Peaches & Cream IV Prize, UK
(2014). Her works are part of public and private collections both at home and overseas.

Above: Landscape Studies - Gainsborough II, 2012, Photography and digital collage.
h: 50cm w: 150cm, Artist’s Collection.
Right top: Landscape Studies - Gainsborough/Villa María, 2013, Photography and digital collage.
h: 40cm w: 90cm, Artist’s Collection.
Right centre: Landscape Representation - Combined Landscapes III, 2014, Photography and digital collage.
h: 30cm w: 74cm, Artist’s Collection.
Right bottom: Landscape Studies – De Haes/ Warcalde, 2013, Photography and digital collage.
h: 40cm w: 60cm, Artist’s Collection.

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