Teresa Lanceta was awarded the 2023 National Plastic Arts Award, awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, this Monday. 30,000 euros.
The jury awarded Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, 1951), who has lived in Alicante for many years, “for her artistic practice, sustained over time, that rescues a feminine, local and collective language.”
As he emphasized, rewarding the Lanceta “The generation of women getting used to the knitting technique as a language, “Far from being patriarchal, it is the primitive code of humanity”, which means coming into contact with the cultures of various groups, such as the “Roma population, Moroccan nomadic weavers or the inhabitants of Raval”.
It also acknowledges the fact that the artist focuses on “traditions and ways of life with which he dialogues through his tapestries, paintings, drawings and theorizing.”
Teresa Lanceta holds a degree in History from the University of Barcelona and a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Since the seventies, her artistic work has focused on the use of textiles as a form of expression, blurring the boundary between crafts and art. Adding to his interest in formal research are material and technical issues, as well as traditions and lifestyles associated with the act of weaving.
Among the themes of his artistic research popular art found Textiles from Morocco, Spanish tapestries of the 15th century, and the work of women in the tobacco industry.
His works have participated in exhibitions organized by national and international institutions such as MACBA, IVAM, MUSAC, the Spanish Academy in Rome, the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Cairo Biennale or the Reina Sofia National Art Center Museum.