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- Curated by
- Vicenç Altaió i Glòria Picazo
Sands by Eva Lootz
Press release
Exhibition: Sands by Eva Lootz
Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10, Taste and Differences season
Dates: 6 February to 2 May 1986
Opening: Thursday 6 February at 7.30 pm
An exhibition by the Austrian artist Eva Lootz will open at the Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10 on 6 February as part of its Taste and Differences season, organised in collaboration with the art critic Glòria Picazo and the writer Vicenç Altaió.
Eva Lootz (Vienna, 1940) moved to Spain in 1968 and has lived in Madrid ever since. During this time, she embarked on her activities in the field of the visual arts, which has led her to consolidate a highly personalised body of work based on a return to specific aspects of poor art and the art of nature. Her common materials are wood, earth, branches, cotton, paraffin and minerals such as mercury, which in themselves are highly evocative. Reminiscent of architecture, her constructions are a mix of ruins and industrial collapse.
The project she is currently working on for Espai 10 is called Sands, and it consists of two complexes made up of identical elements: four wooden fences and a large mass of sand that are in turn connected by a wooden bridge-like structure. The two complexes simultaneously complement and contrast with each other: positive/negative, empty/full, inside/outside.
As she herself states: ‘If the case of Elm House, a piece created for Galería Montenegro last year, was a space for concentration, this piece is part of the series of circuit topologies. The series is dominated by gradient, speed and circulation: there are swamps, waterfalls, water transfers and “liquid lands” (sands).’
Eva Lootz had a show in Barcelona in 1977 at the now-defunct Galería G, and since then she has only taken part in the exhibition Travel Logs, held at Espai 10 during its 1981-1982 season.
Barcelona, 27 January 1986
