Weaving”an art about lifeThis led him to explore the structures and geometries of popular arts on different continents and in the avant-gardes of the 20th century.
This reflection is the starting point of the exhibition opened in Istanbul on Friday by artist Teresa Lanceta, who was born in Barcelona and lives in Alicante. Barcelona Museum of Contemporary ArtAnd what does that mean? the greatest view their work so far.
“Teresa Lanceta. Knitting as open source” It covers fifty years of this creator’s work, using textiles and technique as a central element of his work and a research method. During the presentation of the exhibition, the artist said, “Weaving is a clear code of break and repetition, in which information that is always complex and plural can be read, transformed and transferred, and embeds an ongoing process before it becomes an image.”
Son more than 200 tracks The creators of this exhibition, which is organized by MACBA and IVAM and consists of tapestries, canvases, paintings, drawings, writings and videos. “They offered me an anthology, but I’m not ready to retire and I didn’t want to focus on it exactly like that. There has been business since 1972″ highlights the artist, Made an individual in Reina Sofia in 2000.
These two hundred pieces were distributed in five rooms and accordingly they have jobs Nuria Enguitaco-curator of the exhibition Laura Valles, “They poetically interrogate concepts such as collectivity and authorship traditionally understood by individuality”.
Two axes express the exhibition: Different creative stages in his art career, Moroccan Middle Atlas dabsorbing the work of women in textile for thirty years and Barcelona’s Raval district, Where he lived between 1969 and 1985. “The job at Raval is new, I feel in love with that neighborhood and I spent two years doing this episode”
The five rooms form a route consisting of the series “Fabrics”, “Do not buy watches”, “Spanish tapestry of the 15th century”, “Waiting for the Future”, “Las Cigarreras” (2011-2022), “Gallinero”. ” ( 2019), “Pass of the Ebro” (2013-2015), “Work of work” (2020-2022) and “Trades of Raval” (2019-2022).
This latest series is a collaboration between students and teachers of Teresa Lanceta, Nicolas Malevé, IES Miquel Tarradell, and the MACBA Department of Education, “consisting of a digital map based on participants’ work stories, experiences, resources and love.” their families.”
collaborative work
In this exhibition, Teresa Lanceta explores collaborative formats by creating works with artists such as Alicante. Olga Diego or Pedro G. Romero; police station Leire Vergara, collective ditch or filmmaker Virginia Garcia del Pino.
“I’ve always been interested in this collaborative process, but never more directly and decisively than now, and I’m very happy because I’ve done so many different things with each of them,” says the artist. “And I did it legally, I contracted the authorship because otherwise it would have remained mine.”
Together with Olga Diego, he created “a kind of fantastic little ceramic theater” that ignited in his workshop. Maria Aracil de Mutxamel. “I used many techniques, but I never made ceramics,” he emphasizes.