Fernández, born in 1968 in Miami, Florida, is, within the broadest sense, a panorama artist. However her work throughout three a long time has been a rigorous consideration and poetic probing of the character of panorama. Essentially a sculptor, she not solely explores landscapes as visible phenomena, however makes use of the substances discovered inside them to sculpt with—from graphite to iron ore, gold and pyrite. So they’re her topic and her materials.
Drawn Waters(Borrowdale), 2009
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London
Starting with profound analysis, Teresita displays on land in relation to geography and geology, but in addition as a cultural area, with intimate connection to folks and communities. Inevitably, then, it is a research of energy, by which the historical past and violence of colonisation looms giant.
However the panorama can also be a metaphor for the territories inside us. And in her works, whether or not they’re huge sculptural or ceramic reliefs, room-scale installations or reflective canopies masking big areas of public area, the viewer navigates this productive stress between the target and subjective.
Island Universe, 2019
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London
She discusses the early significance of Wilfredo Lam, and his affect on her main public sculpture Fata Morgana (2015). She additionally displays on her admiration for artists whose writings are central to their follow, together with Eva Hesse and Jack Whitten, and her deep engagement and demanding response to Robert Smithson.
She talks about her pivotal experiences in Japan and the affect of historic Asian artwork on her pondering. She talks about her friendship with and admiration for Cecilia Vicuña and the significance of the writings of José Martí and Sylvia Wynter, amongst others. Plus, she offers perception into her life within the studio and solutions our common questions, together with the final word: what’s artwork for?
Astral Sea 1, 2024
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London. Picture by Studio Kukla
Teresita Fernández: Liquid Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, 27 August-25 OctoberTeresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, Radius Books, revealed 16 October, $60, £42.99 (hb)
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Bloomberg Connects provides entry to an enormous vary of worldwide cultural organisations by way of a single click on, with new guides being added commonly. They embody numerous establishments within the US which have proven and picked up the work of Teresita Fernández, together with the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Artwork, often called MASS MoCA, in North Adams, and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico. The information to SITE Santa Fe options in depth content material on the newest SITE Santa Fe Worldwide exhibition, curated by the previous inventive director of the Venice Biennale, Cecilia Alemani. You’ll be able to watch an introduction to the exhibition by Alemani and considered one of her collaborators on the exhibition, Estevan Rael-Gálvez, the manager director of Native Certain Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. This twelfth version of the Worldwide extends past SITE Santa Fe itself to varied atmospheric accomplice venues throughout the town and you may plot a journey by way of the exhibition by exploring these totally different areas and the works inside them.
