Lola Guerrera

Lola Guerrera - Galaxy 16

Technique: Digital photography printed on handmade cotton paper with pigmented inks.

Artist Biography: Lola Guerra is a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1932. Guerra is known for her work in sculpture, Print and drawing, and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.Guerra studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia and the Escuela de Arte in Madrid. She has participated in group exhibitions in Spain and abroad since the 1950s, and her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions.Throughout her career, Guerra has received numerous awards and recognition for her work. In 1972, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Print, and in 1983 she received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In 1992, she was named Académica de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia.In addition to her career as an artist, Guerra has also been a professor of art and has taught at various schools and universities. She has been recognized as an important figure in the Spanish art scene and has influenced several generations of artists.

 

THE LAST FRONTIER, THE LIGHT We live in a world of frontiers. Real and imaginary, geographical, political, linguistic, economic, economic. A world fragmented by limits, categories, barriers, boundaries; subject to tensions and forces that repeat themselves in every human being. forces that are repeated in every human being. Because the most obtuse frontiers, the steepest cliffs, are the ones that the steepest cliffs, are those that inhabit each one of us. All our potentialities, all the universe of realities that we could live, fit in the beats of a heart. heartbeats. Also all the gags that prevent us from achieving them, all our fears, our chains. our fears, our chains. That is our last frontier. A frontier that does not appear on any map, invisible and magnificent, changing, eternal. Unreachable and close. So far so Close. In this project, Lola Guerrera resorts to light as a metaphor of that last frontier. Recreating the immensity of the constellations (that last horizon of the known universe, overwhelming and seductive as the abyss), Lola Guerrera succeeds in suggesting that sense of isolation and fragility that haunts the human being. that haunts the human being. It is also a way of relating the infinite and the absolute. From the reflection on the ephemeral and or vulnerar le born a more introspective look, more abstract. A search for the essential. Taking light as his raw material, he returns to the origins, both philosophical and philosophical as well as material. By constructing galaxies and timeless spaces, the artist also reflects the terrifyingly intimate and personal. personal. In this project Lola Guerrera's work decisively takes a new path. It is not an abrupt rather it is a soft and progressive turn of gaze. The last frontier: ourselves. Text by Laura Castillo