Teresita Fernandez : elemental / Amada Cruz, Aruna D'Souza, Teresita Fernandez, Maria Elena Ortiz, Seph Rodney, Franklin Sirmans, and Matthew Spellberg.
Includes bibliographical references. "DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, a member of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH"--Colophon.
Contents:
Placas. Paisajes superpuestos / Teresita Fernandez in conversation with Maria Elena Ortiz = Teresita Fernandez en conversacion con Maria Elena Ortiz -- Teresita Fernandez's diaporic landscapes = Los paisajes diasporicos de Teresia Fernandez / Aruna D'Souza -- Teresita Fernandez and Felix Gonzalez-Torres: something personal = Teresita Fernandez y Felix Gonzalez-Torres: algo personal / Amanda Cruz -- The metaphysics of place = La metafisica del lugar / Seph Rodney -- All manner of thing shall be alive = Todas las formas cobraran vida / Matthew Spellberg -- Artist as citizen = La artista como ciudadana / Teresita Fernandez in conversation with Maria Elena Ortiz = Teresita Fernandez en conversacion con Maria Elena Ortiz -- Plates = Placas.
Summary:
"'Teresita Fernandez: Elemental' brings to life the myriad experiential and luminous works of Teresita Fernandez's more than twenty-year career. Images of her visually alluring, monumental sculptures and installations reveal how one of the United States' most compelling contemporary artists investigates the intersection of culture and landscape. This catalogue captures the powerful nature of a creative practice that draws connections between landscape, history, place, and materiality. Included essays and interviews shed light on Fernandez's sculptural and conceptual approaches, as well as her references to land, geology, and social order. Accompanying this monograph, the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Phoenix Art Museum have co-organized the retrospective Teresita Fernandez: Elemental, the first midcareer survey of the 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. = 'Teresita Fernandez: Elemental' recoge una miriada de obras luminosas e interactivas de Teresita Fernandez, creadas a lo largo de una carrera que abarca mas de veinte anos. Las imagenes de sus instalaciones y esculturas, visualmente atrayentes y monumentales, revelan las indagaciones sobre la interseccion entre la cultura y el paisaje realizadas por una de las artistas contemporaneas mas cautivadoras de los Estados Unidos. Este catalago captura la poderosa naturaleza de una practica creativa que establece sugerentes conexiones entre el paisaje, la historia, el lugar y la materialidad. Los ensayos y entrevistas includios arrojan luz sobre las premisas escultoricas y conceptuales de Fernandez, asi como sobre las referencias de suas obras a la tierra, la geologia y el orden social. Acompanando esta monografia, el Perez Art Musuem Miami (PAMM) y el Phoenix Art Museum han organizado conjuntamente la exposicion Teresita Fernandez: Elemental, retrospectiva que abarca mas de dos decadas de la carrera de esta artista, MacArthur Foundation Fellow en el 2005." -- Publisher's description, lower cover. Teresita Fernandez's dazzling large-scale sculptures and installations employ diverse materials-charcoal, ceramics, chrome, steel, onyx, wood, resin, and enamel-with an utterly immersive effect. Accompanying a retrospective of Fernandez's career, and including images of her most recent installation, this book captures the powerful nature of an artistic practice exploring issues of perception, geography, ecology, history, and society. Featured works include Fire, her haunting ongoing series on the conceptual phenomena of landscape; Autumn (...Nothing Personal), created as a participatory space at Harvard University; and As Above, So Below, a series of immersive, interconnected installations referencing alchemy and the cosmos.00Exhibition: Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA (18.10.2019-09.02.2020) / Phoenix Art Museum, USA (21.03.-24.05.2020) / New Orleans Museum of Art, USA (summer 2020 - winter 2021).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.