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, in benefit of the
social well being and the environment.
His fascination for the Mexican indigenous techniques is visible in
many of his works. He was the co-author of the Olympic 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.

Terrazas broad artistic production includes works as
heterogeneous as his most iconic series Possibilities of a Structure
(1974 - ) with it subseries: Cosmos, Nine Circles, Diagonals, Grid
and Bar Code, a pictorial investigation of the characteristics that
allows an specific structure be developed and transformed to the
infinite. He has at this moment more that 375 works only from the
Cosmos subseries.

From that time on, he has produced more than 20 different series
like: Exponential Growth, Organic Growth, Multiplications, The
Predicament of Mankind, Deconstruction of an Image, Everyday
Museum, Imagen México, Traces, Universe, Toscana, and Gravity
among others.

Terrazas work serves as a testimony of his interest in thinking in an
interdisciplinary way to establish visions of our contemporary
world through universal visual languages. Image after image his
work seems to tell stories of the geometry underlining our
Cosmos.