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Eduardo Terrazas
Icons of Infinity, August 28 - October 19, 2024

Eduardo Terrazas: Icons of Infinity

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  • EDUARDO TERRAZAS
    ICONS OF INFINITY

    28 AUGUST– 12 OCTOBER 2024

    HOLBERGSGADE 19, COPENHAGEN

    In the works by Eduardo Terrazas (b. 1936, Guadalajara), vibrant play with scale, unlimited combinational possibilities and equilibria in movement are all shapes that unfold in a succession of irradiations that exert a magnetic effect on the human gaze.

     

    Since the mid-twentieth century, he has produced a body of work that portrays the generating principles of the cosmos, integrating strokes, figures and tonalities to create a dynamic painting system that depicts the universe as a force-field.

    Its components are rigorous but open shapes, awash in possibilities, where variety and repetition come together in a felicitous gear assembly that can depict matter’s rhythmic versatility alongside our own perception mechanisms. His plastic vision has tended to a decisive idea that explores limit as fundament for deep-dives into multiple formal horizons.

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    Terrazas’s pieces present a cosmic dimension but originate in a recognizable space of Mexican modernity within which the particular and the universal converge. We see the symbiotic confluence in traditional materials he uses, such as wool yarn and wax from Mexico’s melipona bees. Above all, he portrays an integration between art elements from Mexican indigenous communities and the contours of international geometric abstraction.

     

    Despite this formal abstraction, we can also derive symbolic significations from his rotating figures. His colorations’ expansive agility may embody a notion of growth inserted into the multiple equilibria of the cosmos. It is an image of incessant activity from a universe in unending self-creation.

     

    His astral landscapes also leave space for the human, the experience that comes from taking in these immense spaces’ infinitude from our mortal condition’s earthbound and transitory perspectives. Given the human gaze’s fleeting nature, the artist’s woven fabrics sparkle like a fragment from the heavens, an outlook for contemplating eternity, luminous icons of infinity.

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  • Works
    • Eduardo Terrazas 1.1.487 (1.1.487b, 2021) From the series: Possibilities of a Structure Subseries: Cosmos, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      1.1.487 (1.1.487b, 2021) From the series: Possibilities of a Structure Subseries: Cosmos, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 28.72 From the seres: Cosmic Variations, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      28.72 From the seres: Cosmic Variations, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 1.1.666 From the series: Possibilities of a Structure Subseries: Cosmos, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      1.1.666 From the series: Possibilities of a Structure Subseries: Cosmos, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 28.69 From the seres: Cosmic Variations, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      28.69 From the seres: Cosmic Variations, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 28.70 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      28.70 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 28.68 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      28.68 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
    • Eduardo Terrazas 28.71 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
      Eduardo Terrazas
      28.71 From the series: Cosmic Variations, 2024
      Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Melipona bee wax and framed with Optium Museum Acrylic
  • Artist Biography
  • EDUARDO TERRAZAS Born in Guadalajara, MX, 1936 Lives and works in Mexico City, MX Eduardo Terrazas studies and contemplates, the...

    EDUARDO TERRAZAS

    Born in Guadalajara, MX, 1936
    Lives and works in Mexico City, MX

     

    Eduardo Terrazas studies and contemplates, the complexity of our contemporary world; spirit, beauty, order, and technique serve as the cornerstones defining his visual universe. His visual reflections stem from a geometric language and a technique inspired by the ‘Huichol tablas’, originating from the indigenous Wixárika/Huichol people. The ‘tablas’ represent their cosmogony and the sacred entities animating it, Terrazas draws on this and through wood, wax, and wool he seeks to map the universe. Though their forms are dissimilar — the former resolutely figurative, the latter abstract — their goal remains the same; to reveal and share a unique pictorial version of their respective world views. Terrazas has spent a lifetime exploring questions about the nature of the universe through the microcosm of his images. His work suggests both a curiosity about the fabric of our universe and a profoundly human hope for an underlying rationality behind the chaos of the world.

     

    A renowned architect and designer Terrazas career is multifaced and includes both iconic design efforts such as the logo for the Olympic Games held in Mexico in 1968 and the 4th edition of the Dior Lady Art and major solo exhibitions at art institutions such as Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; MACG – Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Parque Cultural Reynosa, Reynosa; MASIN – Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Sinaloa; National Museum of Art, La Paz; and National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile.

     

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