Cecilia Betancourt

Danza Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2001	La Danza Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm 1999	Primavera I Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm 2003	Espejos I Oil on canvas 120 x 40 cm 2003

ART CRITIC

Her unique paintings reflect states of mind and spirit and are generally filled with a sense of joy at being alive. For her, she has said, "The real acquires an imaginary dimension, and the unreal a dimension of reality. The truth and the untruth blend together". She paints for everyone and no one. She manages to infuse her works with the appreciation of forms and the beauty of brilliant colors. Thay aiso suggest that there is metaphysically more to the mystery of life and art that meets the human eye. As a result, her paintings suggest that the intangibles of life are quite as real as the tangibles, if one can feel and see them both.

Alfonso de Neuvillate

The work of Cecilia Betancourt a Mexican artist living and working in Zurich arises the, only in appearances, curious contradiction that impresses with a unique work that hasn't stopped growing and developing, and at the same time, it shows, with strokes full of movament and life, a piece of art which is definitive, stable and fixed. But it is, in reality, her dynamism that creates, in a muitiplicity of planes, pure postry with very sensible and intelligent touchas of color and raw material. It is familiar to a romanticism, someNow melancholic, and even mough the design is finisDed and covered, one can perceive it as sensible, mature and eloquent; as if one wanted to discover and reveal the secret but attractive images that form it.

CESAR MAGRINI

CECILIA BETANCOURT, young artist that knows how to observe, that appreciates the richness of popular culture, giving it a high meaning through her work, in which she combines the principles of modem Mexican painting with European tendencies, in an interesting synthesis of tradition and new creation, expressing and achieving the reinterpretation with excellent use of techniques. In this way, tradition and evolution move towards a creative development.
Owner of a rich technique she achieves a basically retinal image. Her characteristic style is a mixture of dreams and realities, a Union of colors and textures that have been admired around the worid.

RAUL IBAÑEZ P.

To draw a face or a landscape, to reproduce an object is the work of an artist. But to discover an idea, reveal a secret, or represent a feeling is the work of a creator.
Congruent with her vital self, Cecilia Betancourt, makes a creative life out of a pictorial experience. All her work, with chromatic insinuations, reflects the double reality in her-that of an artist and that of a woman-.
She learnt to travel in her inner self and discovered universes that became tangible in her painting.
I'm not sure if her character was transformed in art or if it was art that formed her unchangeable personality. But one way or the other, she undoubtedly overcame difficulties, ignored scarcities und created, as if it were a principle, a doctrine or a philosophy, a whole palette of feelings, sensations, ideas and futures, always underlined with optimism.
Cecilia Betancourt was, is and will always be like a rainbow flowing from her hands, mind and sensible heart.

ALFREDO VILLANUEVA BUENROSTRO
(Mexican writer)