Galería Corsica Celebrates Its 10Th Art Season In Vallarta
It will be soon ten years ago that Jean Pierre Renucci and partner José Villavicencio founded Galeria Corsica, in downtown Puerto Vallarta; An art gallery that nearly single-handedly changed the face of the art world in this increasingly cosmopolitan coastal pueblo.
Born in Corsica, South of France, Jean Pierre met José from Mexico City in Puerto Vallarta and while visiting the existing galleries at that time, they decided to open an art gallery specialized in only Top Mexican Art that would show the great respect and love they have for Art. .jpg)
During these ten years, the two partners have proudly represented some of the country´s top talent. "Our focus is on artists who exhibit at important art museums, primarily in Mexico City where the country´s most important museums are located, most of whom already have an international following." Having had previous experience in the art field both of them, they claim that their passion for art is the secret to their success since they don´t represent someone for commercial reasons but because, they like their work. "The fact that we´ve been so amazingly successful is almost beside the point. We wanted to do something that we really like, so our decision from the beginning was to be very choosy."
Attending art school in his youth, Jean Pierre studied with French sculptor Cesar Baldaccini who "taught me the difference between good art and art that is commercial. I´ll never forget how it changed the way I saw things. Forever". A few years later, he became a Curator and was in charge of creating the art collection of several banks and companies.
Representing top contemporary Mexican artists in a mostly american/canadian market has been a challenge for Jean Pierre and José since it´s been hard to e ducate people on the subject. José says that "you can really tell when a collector enters the gallery because he distinguishes immediately the quality of the pieces that are displayed and, knowing what this kind of art is worth, usually says that our prices are really inexpensive. On the contrary, there are some people that come to the gallery and love what they see but don´t know anything about the artists or Mexican art for the matter. .jpg)
It´s then that we know we have to start the education process. People get really excited when they learn that José Luis Cuevas is the most famous living Mexican artists in the whole world or that Manuel Felguérez is the most important abstract Mexican artists of all times. They just can´t believe that such important artists works are actually displayed at Corsica"
Galería Corsica features the works of some other important masters such as Vladimir Cora, Xavier Esqueda, Flor Minor, Agustín Castro and Miguel Carrillo together with some younger but consolidated talents such as Rocío Caballero, Rodrigo de la Sierra, Marco Alvarez, Hartwig Lugo Rhode, Ricardo Fernández and Yanira Bustamante, just to name a few.
For its 10th season, Jean Pierre and José linked together their two locations on Leona Vicario 230 and Guadalupe Sánchez 735 in downtown Puerto Vallarta so that now their gallery is the biggest space in town dedicated to displaying art. www.galeriacorsica.com Phone: 223-1821.
