A brush with… Teresita Fernández—podcast – The Art Newspaper

Fernández, born in 1968 in Miami, Florida, is, within the broadest sense, a panorama artist. However her work throughout three many years 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.

Starting with profound analysis, Teresita displays on land in relation to geography and geology, but additionally as a cultural area, with intimate connection to folks and communities. Inevitably, then, it is a examine of energy, during 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 overlaying large areas of public area, the viewer navigates this productive pressure between the target and subjective.

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 apply, together with Eva Hesse and Jack Whitten, and her deep engagement and important response to Robert Smithson.

She talks about her pivotal experiences in Japan and the affect of historic Asian artwork on her considering. 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 regular questions, together with the last word: what’s artwork for?

Teresita Fernández: Liquid Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, 27 August-25 OctoberTeresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, Radius Books, printed 16 October, $60, £42.99 (hb)

This podcast is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the humanities and tradition platform.

Bloomberg Connects affords entry to an enormous vary of worldwide cultural organisations by a single click on, with new guides being added commonly. They embody quite a few 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 Up to date Artwork, referred to as MASS MoCA, in North Adams, and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico. The information to SITE Santa Fe options intensive content material on the most recent SITE Santa Fe Worldwide exhibition, curated by the previous creative director of the Venice Biennale, Cecilia Alemani. You may watch an introduction to the exhibition by Alemani and one among her collaborators on the exhibition, Estevan Rael-Gálvez, the chief director of Native Sure Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. This twelfth version of the Worldwide extends past SITE Santa Fe itself to varied atmospheric associate venues throughout town and you’ll plot a journey by the exhibition by exploring these completely different areas and the works inside them.