Magdalena Fernández

Magdalena Fernández (Caracas, 1964) is one of the most important artists in contemporary Latin American art. Her works based on video, installations, sculptures, and engravings consist of the exploration of two thematic axes: nature (and landscape) and the reinterpretation of an essential chapter of the history of art such as abstraction, of great strength and validity in many countries of Latin America, among which her native Venezuela stands out. It is important to point out that abstraction in the artistœs work arises from her relationship with nature, as can be seen in several of her videos and in the poetic installation designed specifically for the Terrace of this Museum, on whose floor Pueblaœs light and sky are reflected. Another part of her artistic production establishes a relationship with some significant names of the abstract-geometric genealogy. Many of the pieces selected for this exhibition (engravings, installations, video installations and soundscapes) represent a compendium of gestures, appropriations, and tributes that echo (hence the title of the exhibition) on forms, works, and ideas of artists such as A. G. Fronzoni, Agostino Bonalumi, Gego, Hélio Oiticica, Hércules Barsotti, Jesús Soto, Joaquín Torres-García, Kazimir Malevich, Lucio Fontana, Lygia Clark, Mercedes Pardo, and Piet Mondrian. Magdalena Fernández. Ecos brings together works that have been done for more than a decade. These proposals lead the most relevant of her artistic production and assume a sort of selected chronology of her recent works. It is at the same time a sequence of echoesʺ of her honored artists and, a personal history of abstraction from the artistœs sensitive and intelligent view.