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 Vallarta Living | Art
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Metal Art Show in Bucerias
Harold Sokolove -
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| Ron's Gallery is located at Km 10, on the Las
Palmas Hwy, between Ixtapa and Las Palmas. For more
information or to view the artist's works, visit
www.metalartpv.com. | Bucerias,
Nayarit - Ron Berg is showing, and he hopes selling, some of
his artwork-in-metal this week in Bucerias. His Arte Metalico
Exposition runs through Sunday at Gringo's Books & Coffee
on Av. Morelos, south of the footbridge, where you can meet
the artist from noon to 6 pm each day.
Berg, 61, is a pipe-fitter by trade, but for the
last 14 years or so, has dabbled in several different forms of
media for his creations since arriving on the Puerto Vallarta
scene. "All this," he says, "with a seventh grade education. I
went to work at my father's plumbing shop at an early
age."
Berg, originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, first
came to Puerto Vallarta on vacation 15 years ago. Each
vacation after that became longer and longer, until he finally
moved into a house in the Olas Altas area of the city. It was
there that his creative juices started to really flow,
creating carvings from moose and deer antlers.
He later took a ceramics class in Edmonton, Canada
and began creating pottery items. In the class, Berg and the
rest of the students were given basic pottery items as
teaching tools to learn technique. Berg would have none of
that, however. He started adding his own touches to the items,
asking "Why would I want to do the same thing as everyone
else?"
That was certainly a sign of things to come for
Berg. Several years later he moved to the Versailles area. He
continued his work with antlers and ceramics, but added
abstract painting to his list of talents. "I was just
playing... I never knew what I was going to do when I got up
in the morning," says Berg.
Six years ago, Berg moved to a more peaceful
environment in the small village of La Desembocada, east of
Puerto Vallarta, to get away from the beach, the noise and the
tourists. And he began creating artwork and furniture in
metal. "I bought a piece of land and then I designed my house
and had it built," he says.
"My best friend, as a matter of fact, all my
friends, thought it was a terrible idea to move out there. The
interesting thing is that now my best friend, who owns a condo
on the beach in Nuevo Vallarta, leaves his place to come stay
at mine. He wants to move out here too... to build on top of
my place. He already has a lot of the construction materials
purchased."
Berg's home is also his gallery, Arte Metalico
Escondida, with about 800 art and furniture creations, and his
gallery keeps outgrowing its allotted space. "Right now, as we
speak, the furniture in the living room is being moved
someplace else so the room can become more gallery," he
laughed on a recent Tuesday afternoon.
Ron's Gallery is located at Km 10, on the Las
Palmas Hwy, between Ixtapa and Las Palmas. For more
information or to view the artist's works, visit
www.metalartpv.com. |
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