Eduardo Terrazas
27.15 From the series: Celestial Dome, 2022
Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche Wax
90 x 90 cm (35,43 x 35,43 in)
ET22004
Eduardo Terrazas (1936) is a Mexican creator who has taken genuine interest in studying and contemplating the complexity of our contemporary world. Spirit, beauty, order, and technique are the cornerstones...
Eduardo Terrazas (1936) is a Mexican creator who has taken genuine interest in studying and contemplating the complexity of our contemporary world. Spirit, beauty, order, and technique are the cornerstones that define his visual universe.
Architect by training, he obtain his Bachelor’s degree at UNAM Mexico, and then a Master’s, at Cornell University, New York. But his endeavors –for over fifty years- include an array of disciplines: design, architecture, urban and regional planning, visual arts and environmental issues, responding and reflecting creatively to our changing reality, proposing alternate methods of inhabiting our world, different forms to relate one another, new ways to portray and understand our cosmos.
Terrazas sees his transit through these disciplines, as different pathways that nevertheless run parallel, as resources to approach concerns that range from philosophy to science.
He is one of the few Mexicans who work with the geometric abstraction to establish a dialogue between the formal occidental aesthetics and the indigenous crafts techniques.
He was the co-author of the Design and Identity Program Mexico’68, working for architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, President of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad in Mexico in 1968.
His first exhibition Tablas (1972 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico) presents a series of compositions focused on basic forms, all of them produced with the Huichol technique (wool yarn on wooden board, covered with Campeche wax), a joint collaboration between Terrazas and the Huichol artisan Santos Motoaapohua de la Torre de Santiago.
His broad artistic production includes works as heterogeneous as Possibilities of a Structure (1974 - ), a pictorial investigation of the characteristics that allows an specific structure to be developed and transformed to the infinite.
From that time on, Terrazas has produced more than 20 different series like: Exponential Growth, Organic Growth, The predicaments of mankind, Multiplications, Deconstrucion of an Image, Everyday Museum, Imagen México, Traces, Universe, and Toscana, among others.
Terrazas creates images that serve as a testimony of his interest in thinking in an interdisciplinary way to establish visions of the future through a universal visual language.
Architect by training, he obtain his Bachelor’s degree at UNAM Mexico, and then a Master’s, at Cornell University, New York. But his endeavors –for over fifty years- include an array of disciplines: design, architecture, urban and regional planning, visual arts and environmental issues, responding and reflecting creatively to our changing reality, proposing alternate methods of inhabiting our world, different forms to relate one another, new ways to portray and understand our cosmos.
Terrazas sees his transit through these disciplines, as different pathways that nevertheless run parallel, as resources to approach concerns that range from philosophy to science.
He is one of the few Mexicans who work with the geometric abstraction to establish a dialogue between the formal occidental aesthetics and the indigenous crafts techniques.
He was the co-author of the Design and Identity Program Mexico’68, working for architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, President of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad in Mexico in 1968.
His first exhibition Tablas (1972 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico) presents a series of compositions focused on basic forms, all of them produced with the Huichol technique (wool yarn on wooden board, covered with Campeche wax), a joint collaboration between Terrazas and the Huichol artisan Santos Motoaapohua de la Torre de Santiago.
His broad artistic production includes works as heterogeneous as Possibilities of a Structure (1974 - ), a pictorial investigation of the characteristics that allows an specific structure to be developed and transformed to the infinite.
From that time on, Terrazas has produced more than 20 different series like: Exponential Growth, Organic Growth, The predicaments of mankind, Multiplications, Deconstrucion of an Image, Everyday Museum, Imagen México, Traces, Universe, and Toscana, among others.
Terrazas creates images that serve as a testimony of his interest in thinking in an interdisciplinary way to establish visions of the future through a universal visual language.
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