Extracted from Documentary Saravia (Photo by Joaquin Montalvan)
Mauricio Saravia passed away on December 12, 2008, Since then his mother, Marisa Damele, has diligently been at work, fulfilling a promise made during her son's last painful days. As a result, this page was created in appreciation of Mauricio's extraordinary talent. Featured are his paintings, poems, short films, and music; everything that reflects his unique view of life.
Saravia's memory and spiritual messages are still among us in every piece of his art work. You can still hear his voice in his recordings, view his unique image on his videos, read his words in his poems and try to get to the essence of his soul in his paintings.
You will find here information to buy his books or prints of his paintings.
To select the paintings you like, please, click on the button on top or at the bottom of this page to go into his official site.
To purchase prints of his paintings on special paper or on canvas, a track of his music, or for any other information, please, send an email to:info@mauriciosaravia.com
Each track costs $0.50 (fifty cents) and all purchases will be made via Paypal. The eight tracks cost $3.50 Please, send an email as soon as you pay via Paypal, letting us know which track you want to get and the complete mp3 will be sent to your email address.
Samantha Newark and Bitt Kenedy (Photos by Francisco Madrid)
The Theology of Time.
To go on with this year of accomplishments for Saravia's legacy, his electronic music CD entitled "The Theology of Time", will be released soon.
Saravia finished the CD in 2007 with the beautiful voices of Samantha Newark in five tracks and Britt Kenedy in two tracks. They sang his lyrics, extracted from The Book of Whispers.
There is an eighth track in which Saravia recites his poem with the same title of the Album. The mastering of the eighth tracks was done by Fc Bester, outstanding Audio Mastering Specialist who has worked on the music of James Brown, Billie Joel and Joe Cocker, to name some.
A selection of 68 of his last poems was published on the second anniversary of his death, last December 12th., with the title that Saravia had chosen for it: The Book of Whispers.
These poems were written by Saravia in different locations of the United States of America, such as New York, New Jersey, The Bronx, North Carolina, Denver and Los Angeles. It has received very good feedback and people say they love the way he uses words to express his feelings and emotions.
it can be acquired here: www.lulu.com
Front and back covers (Photo by Todd Pierson)
Poetry Book Esencia.
This is an opportunity for book collectors who like to obtain special issues. Esencia, a poetry book by Mauricio Saravia, published in Uruguay, in 1998, with his poems in English and in Spanish can be purchased now.
Saravia himself designed the covers and pages which are all in soft colors and with artistic graphic designs created by him as well as photos of some of his paintings. It is a little jewel that cannot be bought in the market. Let us know if you would like to have one of these unique books. There are only few copies left.
Mauricio Saravia has been featured in Destino Arte annual book catalog, edition 2011.
This is an annual book catalog, created in Uruguay in 2004 with the idea of informing art collectors and art lovers all over the world about new outstanding artists, not only from Uruguay but from other countries.
Every year since 2004, the Catalog has successfully showed a selection of artists in a variety of art expressions, including painting, portrait, sculpture, carving, pottery, glass, photography, porcelain, design, and restoration, to name some.
It is not for sale and it is distributed around the world in Diplomatic Offices and International Art Fairs.
In the BOOKS Section you will find reviews of Destino Arte - art catalog and The Book of Whispers. If you visit the ART Section you can read a very in depth interview to his mother, in which she tells about Saravia's life story and his works.
photo by Faye Sadou
The Many Faces of Mauricio Saravia.
Bruce W. Hall, counselor, coach, lecturer and writer created a blog called "The Many Faces of Mauricio Saravia."
Although Mr. Hall never met Mauricio, he was deeply inspired by his art work and his story and after reading all about him on the Internet he wrote a fascinating insight of his thoughts and feelings in first person as if it were Saravia talking.
The School of the Arts on his name, created in Denver, Colorado, in November 2008, one month before his passing, has grown as much as to be now called academy. Pastor Scott Carranza founded it to help children from low income families, providing them a safe place to go after regular school time, to learn different subjects and the word of God.
It has been blessed by God and every year more students and more teachers are becoming part of this program.
photo by Dawid Szmyd
The Mauricio Saravia Poetry Series.
The Metropolitan State College of Denver( MSCD), Department of Chicana/o Studies, Journey Through Our Heritage program, hosted a month long poetry series in tribute to the memory of Mauricio Saravia during April of 2011. The four separate events were overseen by Dr. Renee Fajardo, coordinator of JTOH program and coincided with National Poetry Month.
The events provided visiting artist/poets as in house residents to several grade schools, high schools and college classes. The grand finale of the series took place on April 22nd at the St. Cajetans event center in the Auraria Campus. In honor of Saravia's literary work, students were given copies of The Book of Whispers. A poetry slam and open microphone followed. The JTOH program also published a spring journal of students writing and some of Saravia's poems.
This received good coverage of media, appearing articles on newspapers and magazines of the State.
To purchase prints of his paintings or for any other information, please, send an email to: info@mauriciosaravia.com
