Pilar Calvo Rodero

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Calvo, the second or maternal family name is Rodero.
Calvo Rodero in undated photo. Pilar Calvo Rodero.png
Calvo Rodero in undated photo.

Pilar Calvo Rodero (Madrid, 1910-1974) was a Spanish sculptor, costume designer, and set designer.

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Early life and education

Her mother was Anunciación Rodero Domínguez, and her father was Gaspar Castor Calvo Rodero, deputy director of the Tabacalera in Madrid. The couple had six daughters and one son: Josefa, Carmen, Matilde, Rosalía, Isabel, Pilar, and Rafael. [1] Her sister Matilde was an engraver and bookbinder who worked at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas.

Calvo studied at the French Girls' Lycée and the IES San Isidro. She began her studies as a draftsman and surveyor but did not complete them. She worked as a teacher at the Escuela Normal de Madrid  [ es ], where she taught drawing and manual arts. At the same time, she contributed articles to fashion and decoration columns. [2] In 1924, she participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibition with a photoengraved casket in the Decorative Arts section. [3]

Career

In 1932, she married the critic, writer, and theater director Alfredo Marqueríe. [4]

During the civil war, they moved to Tangier with their daughter, where Calvo began modeling. Upon returning to Madrid, she took classes from the sculptor José Planes  [ es ]. Once the war was over, Calvo exhibited for several years at the Salon d'Automne, organized by the Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores (Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors):

When the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo organized a tribute to Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Calvo participated alongside other artists such as Eva Aggerholm  [ es ], Menchu Gal, Aurora Lezcano  [ es ], Salvador Dalí, Ángel Ferrant, Ricardo Baroja, Benjamín Palencia, and Darío de Regoyos. [2]

Calvo held her first solo exhibition in 1951 at the Instituto Internacional de Madrid  [ es ]. She exhibited seventeen sculptures in stone, wood, fired clay, and patinated plaster, some with bullfighting themes. Thanks to a grant from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, she lived in Paris between March and April 1952. There, she successfully exhibited her series dedicated to moments in bullfighting: Chicuelina, Citando de frente, Paseo natural, Verónica, De frente por detrás, and Paso de rodillas. In 1952, she participated in a collective exhibition on bullfighting themes held at the Galería Xagra in Madrid, promoted by Antonio Oliver, where he was the only sculptor. She also exhibited in Tangier and at the Sala Estilo. [2] She exhibited Desnudo at the 1954 National Fine Arts Exhibition. [8] That same year, she was awarded a third place medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition for her work Desnudo de mujer. [9] In 1957, Calvo received the runner-up prize in the National Sculpture Award for her work Retrato de Azorín. [10] [11] In 1964, she participated in XXV Years of Spanish Art at the Palacio de Velázquez's Retiro Exhibition Hall in Madrid. [12]

She also worked in fashion design, costume design, and set design, and contributed to various publications. She began her activity as a contributor in the Madrid newspape España in 1938 and 1939 in a section entitled "La mujer y el hogar" (Women and the Home), where, in addition to writing fashion columns, she gave decorating tips, recipes, and more. The illustrations were her own. She created sets and designed costumes for numerous plays, as well as serving as the executive secretary of the Teatro Popular Español. [2]

Death and legacy

Calvo and her husband died in a traffic accident near Minglanilla on July 31, 1974. They were buried in the Cementerio de San Justo. [13]

Her work was included in the exhibition Reexistencias, escultoras del siglo XX (Re-existences, 20th-century sculptors), held in Madrid and Seville in 2006. [14] [15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Pilar Calvo Rodero". Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores (in Spanish). 30 October 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Monmeneu González, Mónica; Gaitán Salinas, Carmen; Murga Castro, Idoia (27 December 2022). "Pilar Calvo Rodero: trasvases entre escultura y escena durante el franquismo" [Pilar Calvo Rodero: transfers between sculpture and stage during the Franco regime.]. Asparkía. Investigació feminista (in Spanish) (41): 209–233. doi:10.6035/asparkia.6447. hdl: 10234/201806 . ISSN   2340-4795 . Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Gaitán Salinas, Carmen; Murga Castro, Idoia (20 November 2023). "Al bies. Las artistas y el diseño en la vanguardia española" [On the Bias: Women Artists and Design in the Spanish Avant-Garde.](PDF). cultura.gob.es (in Spanish). ISBN   9788481818505 . Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Alfredo Marquerie". Diario de Burgos : de avisos y noticias (in Spanish). No. 24189. Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica. 13 August 1969. p. 3. Retrieved 11 September 2025– via Ministerio de Cultura.
  5. ↑ "23 Salón de Otoño" [23rd Autumn Salon] (in Spanish). Salón de Otoño. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "24 Salón de Otoño" [24th Autumn Salon] (in Spanish). Salón de Otoño. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "25 Salón de Otoño" [25th Autumn Salon] (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes" [National Exhibition of Fine Arts](PDF) (in Spanish). Catálogo Oficial. 1954.
  9. ↑ "Boletín Oficial del Estado num 166 de 1954" [Official State Gazette No. 166 of 1954.](PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Ordinario.
  10. ↑ "Jose Ma. Sanchez Silva, Premio Nacional de Literatura" [Jose Ma. Sanchez Silva, National Literature Prize winner] (in Spanish). No. 524. Baleares : órgano de Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las J.O.N.S. 24 January 1957. Retrieved 11 September 2025– via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
  11. ↑ "Concesión de los premios nacionales de Bellas Artes" [Awarding of the National Fine Arts Prizes] (in Spanish). No. 17463. El adelantado : Periódico de Intereses Morales y Materiales, Ciencias, Literatura y Artes. 24 January 1957. Retrieved 11 September 2025– via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
  12. ↑ Vicente de Foronda, Pilar (2016). "40 escultoras españolas del Siglo XX" (pdf). Arte, Individuo y Sociedad (in Spanish).
  13. ↑ "¿Vacaciones Politicas?" [Political Vacation?]. La Voz de Albacete : diario de la tarde (in Spanish). No. 6840. 3 August 1974. p. 3. Retrieved 11 September 2025– via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
  14. ↑ Solano, Susana, ed. (2006). Reexistencias: escultoras del siglo XX ; esta exposición[Re-existences: 20th-century female sculptors; this exhibition] (in Spanish). Consejería de Cultura y Deportes, Comunidad de Madrid. ISBN   978-84-451-2882-4.
  15. ↑ "Con nombre de mujer" [With a woman's name]. Diario ABC (in Spanish). 31 July 2006.
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