Soledad Sevilla: Soñé con un espacio

The Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universitat Politècnica de València is hosting the exhibition 'Soledad Sevilla: Soñé con un espacio', which can be visited until 6 March in the Sala Josep Renau (ground floor of building 3N). The exhibition presents some of the most important works by this acclaimed Valencian artist.

The curators responsible for organising the exhibition are Isabel Tejeda and Laura Silvestre. They faced the challenge of offering a vision of Sevilla's work that would not overlap with the retrospective she will present at the Reina Sofía Art Centre this year.

According to Soledad Sevilla herself, the result is a success: "They have selected unique pieces from different series, and what they have achieved is magnificent".

Light, matter and space

"Soledad Sevilla: Soñé con un espacio" (Soledad Sevilla: I Dreamt of a Space) was inaugurated in December on the occasion of awarding a Sant Carles 2023 Medal to the artist.

As Isabel Tejeda and Laura Silvestre explain, the exhibition covers some of the most significant series of her artistic career. "Since her beginnings in the late 1960s, Soledad Sevilla has explored the connections between light, matter and space, combining the plastic possibilities of the line with analytical rigour and geometric order".

"These reflections were also projected in a three-dimensional work, fundamentally installations and interventions, which since the 1980s have sought to generate sensorial and organic experiences in the spectators, in the users of her spaces".

"These works manifest an internal poetic logic in which elements such as the evocation of the intangible, the reflection on time and language, the presence of the paradoxical and the study of the conditions of perception of the senses stand out".

Outstanding career

Valencian artist Soledad Sevilla has received the highest awards in Spanish art, including the National Prize for Plastic Arts (1993) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2007).

In 2020, she was awarded the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts and appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Granada. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de València.

With an extensive exhibition career, her works can be found in collections such as the Reina Sofía Museum, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the MACBA in Barcelona, among others.

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