Rocío Heredia

Divine Inspiration Exhibition: 44 pieces from 1997 to 2001. Date: May  2001. Loyola Cultural Center of Monterrey, A.C. Address:  Hidalgo 2260 Poniente, Colonia Obispado, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

"Divine Inspiration" Author Lic. Horacio Cantú Flores, restaurador.      Someone said "Each piece of Art represents a spiritual expression, it is possible to get and communicate an expression through a specific technique."      In its origins, the icon was an important remembrance, the representation of an image or the portrait of a person, which, due to his religious testimony of Christian life deserved to be remembered, by trying to perpetuate his/her image and inviting everyone to follow the example set in his lifetime.		Lic. Horacio Cantú, Rocío Heredia        &  Sra. Graciela Ríos de Fernández.
The icon is a sacred image or sacred material dedicated to God, made over wood using a technique known as Repoussé, in a particular style.     "Divine Inspiration" is the title that Rocio has chosen for her first individual Exposition, a very well chosen title, in my opinion, because it's not possible to study her work only as art as its difficult technique and structure cannot be separated from its spiritual content.   It's important to say at this moment that not only ability to dominate and handle the metal, but practice, and patience make it possible to create these objects, it is of major importance that the spiritual charge the artist must deposit in every one of her works transmits the religious message and makes possible its interpretation.		Mrs.. Sylvia Jones de Ordóñez &           Master Efrén Ordóñez Villalobos.

    For people standing in front of an icon image, there should be a mystical and spiritual experience, the union of human and divine. An icon must be felt, not only seen, because it's the only way it can transmit the message it has within it.

I'm sure experts in art will be delighted with the magnificent icons created by Rocio and will continue with their interest in the artist's way. Those newly exposed to this form of Art, may learn to understand and appreciate this beautiful style of religious art, and may be very deeply impressed.      Congratulations Rocio, hopefully this will be a platform to show your art and spiritualism, within every one of your repoussed icons.

Metallic Art Exhibition

MARIANA FIGUEROA/El Norte Newspaper . May 18, 2001, Monterrey, Mexico

      The metal has been inspiration base for the artist Rocio Heredia who has transformed metal fragments in more than 30 pieces of art in which, with relieves, textures and ornaments deeply detailed, from Virgins, saints and symbols representing Jewish and catholic religions.


     Artwork of different formats on which we can find 15 miniature pieces (8 X 10 cms), will be inaugurated Thursday May 24th in the Loyola Cultural Center by Mr. Horacio Cantu. The series of art work based on religious sentiments and light reflex, started 3 years ago when Rocio entered in touch with repousse and discovered its beauty. "My first contact with this technique gave me an idea of richness of art metal, reveling on me a sensitivity for visual arts".  "My own interpretation and creativity depend particularly on chasing and repousse techniques that require two important things: The ability to manageand create a design, and the ability to use tools".

     Heredia's art metal that is member of the American Silversmiths and North American Goldsmiths, US organizations formed by metal artists, will remain in the Loyola Center until June 1st.

Art Metal Show

 MARIANA FIGUEROA/ El Norte Newspaper.   May 21, 2001, Monterrey, Mexico

With reliefs, textures and ornaments deeply detailed, from Virgins, saints and symbols representing Jewish and catholic religions the artist Rocio Heredia who has transformed metal fragments in more than 30 pieces of art in  'Divine Inspiration', exposition that will be open Thursday May 24th in the Loyola Cultural Center by Mr. Horacio Cantu.      The series of art work based on religious sentiments and light reflex, started 3 years ago when Rocio entered in touch with repoussé and discovered its beauty.       "My first contact with this technique gave me an idea of richness of art metal, reveling on me a sensitivity for visual arts". "My own interpretation and creativity depend particularly on chasing and repousse techniques that require two important things: The ability to manage and create a design, and the ability to use tools".

Jesus El Maestro

      Her first work combines oleo painting in the faces of the religious characters and applications of gold sheet and fantasy stones.     Non-the less, the artist has redefined her work and, in her last pieces of art the most relevant base has been reposed faces.

     "I like to fight with the metal until I get what I want' Heredia says and "I like the Jewish and Catholics because sine I was a child I studied in religious schools and God always has been in my life".

     A characteristic of Heredia's art, who is member of the Society of American Silversmiths and the Society of North American Goldsmiths, US organizations formed by metal artists, is the attention to detail, 'the smallest the better', she says. Bachelor in Psychology from Regiomontana University in Monterrey, Mexico, the artist will present her art for the first time before she goes to New York  where she will take a seminar with Valentin Yotkov, a very important and recognized artist in metal". "I will go to study techniques to work with wider metals; I want to start working on cooper, silver and gold in the future". "Chestokova Black Virgin, Guadalupe Virgin, King David and Antonio de Padua are some of the pieces that compose the exposition".

Makes art with saints, virgins and angels

Mario Prado Cabrera/ El Porvenir Newspaper, Monterrey, Mexico, Friday 1st of June 2001

     Her inspiration is not only based on metal beauty but in religious motives that have driven her to reflect it in a series of icons where saints, virgins and angels come up.  As Rocio Heredia says, her education in catholic schools offers her the opportunity to access to the beauty of Christian images.  Vladimir and Nuestra Señora del Rocio virgins are two of this art pieces that Monterrey people will have the opportunity to see in Loyola Cultural Center in Divine Inspiration Exposition beginning 24th of may. The exposition consists in 44 pieces of art and triptychs where her own inspiration takes place to make them.

     "At the beginning I started making stationary and the by curiosity experimented with metal, which I found more interesting" says Rocio. Her work has been observed internationally, she is member of the American Silversmiths and North American Goldsmiths, US organizations formed by metal artists". "My first contact with this technique gave me an idea of richness of metalwork". Then she was developing a series of her own interpretations without leaving apart the religious motives on her artwork.  "I started making Statement Cards and the I was elaborating faces and hands, which show the biggest expressions of the pieces".

     She revealed that her work is mainly based on tin but also in brass sheets and gold leaf. It takes from one day up to a month to create a single piece.  "Actually my own interpretation and creativeness depend on two old techniques (Chasing and Repoussé) that require the ability to imagine, create, draw a draft and the correct use of the tools".

 Expone su Inspiración

LAURA TIJERINA/Periódico El Norte Edición Sierra Madre. June 2001, Garza García, Nuevo León

Rocío Heredia        y Sra. Sylvia Jones de Ordóñez

Después de varios meses de elaboración, Rocío Heredia dio a conocer las obras que comprenden su más reciente exposición "Inspiración Divina", compuesta por 44 fragmentos de estaño en los que plasmó imágenes representativas de las religiones católica y judía.     Durante la ceremonia de inauguración, el 24 de mayo en el Centro Cultural Loyola de Monterrey, el Lic. Horacio Cantú leyó un escrito realizado con anticipación, para externarlo en el momento en que le correspondiera dar por inaugurada formalmente la exhibición.     "Inspiración Divina es un título muy acertado que Rocío nos dio, ya que su trabajo es una obra de arte que no se puede separar de su contenido y que establece la habilidad que tiene para desarrollar el metal", expresó Horacio Cantú.

     Además, agregó que toda pieza de arte representa la expresión del espíritu siendo posible plasmar y comunicar esta expresión a través de una determinada y específica técnica.  La elaboración de las obras comenzó alrededor de 4 años y medio, cuando se interesó en la técnica repoussé.

    "Mi primer contacto con esta técnica me dio una idea de la riqueza del arte en metal, revelando en mi una sensibilidad hacia las Artes Visuales" comentó la artista.

     La autora, Psicóloga de profesión de la Universidad Regiomontana y miembro de la Society of American Silversmiths y de la Society of North American Goldsmiths, organizaciones estadounidenses que reúnen artistas y artesanos del metal, tiene como plan a largo plazo estudiar en Nueva York más sobre el metal.