Visual artist — Rosario, Argentina
Painting · Drawing · Digital art · since 1975
Book — 2025
31 July 2025, 6 p.m.
Read the critical writings“Marta Tarsia is a humanist who reaffirms in her work the enduring presence of man in conflict with himself and with his surroundings.”
My vocation for the visual arts began when I was five or six years old. I was in first grade, and the drawing teacher at the Normal Nº 1 school in Rosario, Nidia Bollero, discovered that I was a good draughtswoman and rewarded my work with a kiss and words of praise.
I didn’t study at secondary school, and at the end of each school year I had to sit exams in several subjects. With some stumbles along the way I qualified as a schoolteacher, and the following year I received a little card from Marcelo Dasso. He had seen my drawings and was offering to be my teacher. He was, for a long time, and despite my shyness he got me to show paintings in group exhibitions and finally, in 1975, to hold my first solo exhibition at what was then Galería Diez. That was the beginning of a competition with myself that still goes on.
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