Sculptor

Mara Quintana was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1949. While still very young she was interested in shape and form and took sculpture classes with a renown Argentine visual artist Pablo Edelstein, in whose studio she produced her first sculptures.

She left Argentina in the early 1970s, moving to Oxford, where after starting further studies in Anthropology, she went on to follow evening classes in sculpture at the then Oxford Polytechnic.

Influenced by Moore, Hepworth and Chadwick, she started working in the Metallurgy Department at the University of Oxford, School of Engineering and Science. It is there that she began working on a monumental project, which was chosen to cover the façade of the Engineering and Science Building.

From Oxford Mara moved to France near Geneva, just near a quarry where she began to work in stone. In the late 1970s early 1980s Mara continued to produce a range of sculptures in bronze and steel, benefiting from access to equipment and materials at the CERN. During this period she produced her iconic modular trochoide cubes and held her first exhibition in Geneva in 1976.

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At the foot of the Jura mountains she fell in love with an old ruin and spent the next years on a restoration project. She was in her element in large building works and found a passion for architecture and renovations. She lived in Paris and Zurich and finally settled in Brussels where she studied traditional painting techniques at the Van der Kelen school. For a number of years she focused on renovation projects in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Today she lives in Carthage, Tunisa and is enjoying a renewed enthusiasm for stone sculpture.

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