Teresa Lanceta covers IVAM with textile art

“Weaving has got me; it’s a primary, ancestral, repetitive technique that gives you so much freedom”specifies Theresa LancetPioneer of textile art born in Barcelona and Living in Alicante for more than fifteen yearsopened this morning IVAM The largest retrospective dedicated to his work, which will remain open to the public until February 12, 2023.

Exhibition Theresa Lancet. Weaving as open source includes 175 works contain tapestries, pictures, drawings, writings, videos and sound recordings last created five years, as well as ways to collaborate with other creators such as Olga Diego, Pedro G. Romero or Xabier Salaberria from Alicante. Lanceta’s textile business, which has since yesterday spanned several rooms of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is the result of a joint production effort between the Valencia center and the Valencia centre. Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA)which hosted this exhibition in the first place with more than 200 works in this exhibition between last April and September .

“This exhibition began to take shape decades ago. Teresa learned to weave with an old loom He bought it from one of the many dying factories in Barcelona of the seventies.” From then on, he “immersed himself in a kind of weft and warp world. open source where you can express yourself and spark your imagination”, IVAM director explained, Nuria Enguita – exhibition curator Laura Valles– after underlining Lanceta’s pioneering position by proposing weaving as an art in itself.

Teresa Lanceta exhibition at IVAM Michael Lawrence


“Knitting is an open binary code, an exchange between ones and zeros, similar to the language of computers”, the artist emphasized this art based on the collaboration between anonymous persons inherited by one craftsman from another and used as his own knowledge before passing it on to a third party. “I have work because others have work; art is collective” highlights the Lancet.

“Unlike other artists who use weaving or their techniques to ‘bring’ them into contemporary art, Teresa Lanceta’s commitment consists of verifying and demonstrating that these fabrics are also works of art.they are realized by using techniques that are inseparable from the person who created them – subjectivity – that are the carriers of their own and the different poetics of the world.

It was in the 80s, Lancet’s journeys to the Berber peoples of the Middle Atlas they made her aware of an anonymous information that is transmitted from mothers to daughters and beaten in the home environment, universal and present in all cultures.

exhibition layout

hang in the first room of the exhibition two large murals made of dozens of fabricsIt was made from the end of the seventies until 2022. In the second room Tapestries dedicated to the Middle Atlas. Later, we find projects dedicated to the Spanish carpet of the fifteenth centuryReflected in a production made by Muslims for war and conquest lords.

to face him passage of the EbroA work that emerges from a mixture of times. Ebro War The childhood of the artist at l’Horta de Sant Joan and his weekly trips to Barcelona From Alicante between 2013 and 2020. This work contains objects from the museum. ditch: everyday objects made from remains found in trenches, such as a military helmet converted into a funnel for wine, or the remains of a soldier’s uniform converted into an apron.

The exhibition ends in the hall dedicated to Raval“It’s where she shared her experiences with the Gypsy community, lived through her formative years, and where her need to explore what was broken, destroyed and repaired begins,” stressed Laura Vallés.

Theresa Lancet

After studying History at the Complutense University of Madrid and completing her PhD in Art History, Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, ​​1951) spent extended periods in Alicante, Granada, Madrid, Seville and Marrakech. She has taught at the Alicante School of Architecture and at Escola Massana in Barcelona she. In the early 1970s, Lanceta chose textiles as a form of artistic expression, thus pushing the boundaries between what is considered art and craft.

Artist at the Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària, Barcelona (1989); Contemporary Art Museum, Elche (1995); Reina Sofia Art Center, Madrid (2000); Ville des Arts, Casablanca (2000); Burning House, Madrid (2016); Azkuna Zentroa Alhondiga, Bilbao; and Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona (2017-2018). He participated in the biennials in Cairo (2009), São Paulo (2013, 2014) and Venice (2017). Among the collective she attended the Las Cigarreras Center. closure is the answer (2011), a documentary about Alicante’s former Tobacco Factory workers. He also curated the Olga Diego exhibition in 2014. and definition Art at Casa Bardín by IAC Juan Gil-Albert. His works are in the collections of Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Mediterranean Savings Bank; José Cuervo Foundation, Mexico; Perez Art Museum, Miami; and MACBA, Barcelona.

Source: Informacion

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