Feb 8
Gallery Lehmann Maupin presents Maelstrom, an exhibition of monumental works from Cuban-American artists Teresita Fernandez. In the show, she explores the topic of colonization through visual poetry. Immense sculptures and installations feature scenes from natural disasters. The artist conceptualizes violence and devastation through metaphors. In Caribbean Cosmos, Fernandez created a series of mesmerizing vortexes over the Caribbean. The 16-foot-long ceramic panel of mosaics invites viewers to delve deeper into the connection between catastrophic weather events and human biological rhythms.
In Black Beach (Unpolished Diamond), Fernandez uses entangled palm trees and beach debris to portray the chaos of history. It consists of three large panels of charcoal and wood embedded with intertwining layers of material. Édouard Glissant’s essay “The Black Beach” inspired the series. The Caribbean writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic describes Le Diamant, a beach in southern Martinique, as having a “subterranean, cyclical life.”
Guest may enter the online viewing room to explore a visual essay. It is full of resources including videos, articles, and images. There is a video of an interview with the artist about the research and ideas behind her work. A reading of Glissant’s poetic essay on the occasion of Maelstrom is also available. Making it even more fun, the gallery provided documentary film footage of Cuba and several essays on Caribbean history. One can even find a map of the Caribbean with original Taino names.
In addition, those curious about the show may request to schedule a visit at the New York gallery.
Blog links to Teresita Fernandez
Wikipedia Link
Link to Video
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May 29
By Alanna Martinez • 05/26/16
From Observer.com
Teresita Fernández knows how to light up a room, and she’s done just that inside the front gallery of Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco. The century-old house inside which Mr. Meier’s gallery is located has been set ablaze by Ms. Fernández’s fiery handiwork, which features a smoky landscape rendered in charcoal and a glittering inferno made from thousands of glazed ceramic tiles.
Ms. Fernández is widely known for her large-scale experiential installations, the most recent being a 500-foot mirrored canopy for New York’s Madison Square Park which was experienced by nearly 50,000 people each day during its nine-month run.
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Jul 30
published in Events
tags : CANY, CCCNY, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, Cuba Art NY, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Fata Morgana, Madison Square Park, New York City, Teresita Fernandez
Sunday, August 2, 2015 @ 12 Noon
MADISON SQUARE PARK Madison Ave. & 23rd Street, NYC
Spend an afternoon at Madison Square Park exploring the ever-changing wonders of Fata Morgana with its creator, Cuban-American artist Teresita Fernández. Fata Morgana is Madison Square Park Conservancy’s largest and most ambitious outdoor sculpture to date. The outdoor sculpture consists of 500 running feet of golden, mirror-polished discs that create canopies above the pathways around the Park’s central Oval Lawn.
This event is free and open to the public. Visitors are advised to arrive in the park around 11:30 am to walk around and experience the work on their own. THE GROUP SHOULD ASSEMBLE AT THE PARK’S NORTH FOUNTAIN MONUMENT BY 12 NOON to meet Ms. Fernández, who will give a talk and tour of the installation, followed by a Q&A with the public. For more information, write to cccofny@aol.com.
This exclusive event with artist Teresita FernándezCuba Art NY is co-sponsored by the CCCNY (Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York) and Cuba Art NY.
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Jun 5
From TimeOut New York
Over the past 15 years, artist Teresita Fernández has created more than a dozen public art projects that put the viewer in the role of both spectator and performer. Recalling natural phenomena, her evocative installations, which could be called conceptual landscapes, often rely on optical illusions that become more magical with repeated visits. She talks about her new piece, Fata Morgana, at Madison Square Park, and the earlier works that led to it.
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Nov 29
November 4- December 20, 2014
Almine Rech Gallery
11 Savile Row, 1st floor,
Mayfair, W1S3PG London
From Artdaily.org
LONDON.- Inspired by the landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references, Fernández presents a group of new works for her second exhibition with Almine Rech Gallery that collectively demonstrate her remarkable ability to transform materials into unique perceptual experiences.
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. Fernández’s new Golden paintings, made with India ink on reflective metallic panels, continue the artist’s inquiries into materiality, landscape painting, mining, the connections between the cosmos and the subterranean, and the cultural significance of gold.
The thick, visceral layer of ink marks on top of the mirror-like surface explores painterly conventions of figure-in-the-landscape by superimposing the viewer’s own distorted reflection into the image. Shifting reflections animate the landscape scenes into almost gestural, real-time cinematic dissolves where the viewer becomes engaged in the immersive, experiential quality the work.
Fernández’s intense research and investigation into the materiality of gold and the convention of landscape can also be seen in her large-scale exhibition of sculptures and installations titled As Above So Below, on view at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts through March 2015.
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May 27
On view beginning May 24, 2014
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
NORTH ADAMS, MA 01247
Demonstrating the artist’s remarkable ability to transform materials and their surrounding architecture into an enveloping perceptual experience, Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic. Fernández’s largest solo exhibition to date, As Above So Below is made up entirely of new works.
Describing a universe in balance, the phrase “as above, so below” originates from the ancient Hermetic tradition central to alchemy, in which every action occurring on one level of reality (physical, emotional, or mental) correlates to every other. Responding to MASS MoCA’s massive and light-filled first-floor galleries, Fernández’s trio of new landscape-informed, large-scale installations embodies this expression, and is united through the show’s elaborately detailed exploration of two essential minerals.
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Aug 29
published in Exhibits
tags : Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Art, cuban artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Hong Kong, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Pedder Building, Teresita Fernandez
September 12 – November 9, 2013
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central, Hong Kong
Lehmann Maupin is honored to open it’s fall season in Hong Kong with the first solo show in China of acclaimed American artist Teresita Fernández, whose conceptual, experiential works are often characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking.
Link:>>Yareah Magazine
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Dec 19
published in Articles
tags : 2013 Aspen Award for Art, art, ArtCrushsummer, Aspen Art Museum, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Teresita Fernandez
The Aspen Art Museum is proud to announce the selection of renowned contemporary artist Teresita Fernández as the recipient of the museum’s 2013 Aspen Award for Art. The award will be presented on Friday, August 2, 2013, during the museum’s 9th annual ArtCrushsummer benefit gala. The Aspen Award for Art is given each year to an artist who has made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art.
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