The main exhibitions of Leonor Serrano Rivas (Málaga, 1986) have developed in stages with expressive designs and peculiar memories, such as the old refrigeration ship of Slaughterhouse or the monumental rooms of C3A de Córdoba.
The artist, who has always had a … Solid institutional support in Spain, presented in 2023 an individual at the Reina Sofía Museum, entitled ‘Natural Magic’, in which the conventional exhibition spaces to be deployed in unplanned areas of the center.
His most recent project has taken place in the Retuerta Abbey, In Valladolid, a hotel located in an old medieval monastery, where he developed a work path whose poetic, linked to popular knowledge, has expanded in his current sample in the newly opened Center d’Art les Lait de Albi (France).
The uniqueness of these environments has allowed you to improve your ability to challenge the spectator’s senses, using scenographic strategies that invite you to appreciate the work from multiple perspectives. Now he presents his first individual in the Carlier Gallery | Gebauer, whose Madrid headquarters – a aseptic white cube – is devoid of corners and memories to reveal. Serrano Rivas counteracts these shortcomings by display Recoleto and Walled Garden, chaired by the Virgin Mary, usual in medieval Christian iconography.
However, the artist is not interested in both religious memory and the exploration of the various knowledge that characterized that period, embodied in works such as The miniated codices, the lapidarians, the herbariums or medicinal treaties, but also present in popular expressions such as songs or sewing.
Detail of the assembly of the proposal ‘For a submerged being’, by Leonor Serrano Rivas
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Precisely, the centerpiece of this appointment is a plant of plant theme that, in contrast to the fine exquisiteness of the embroidery of its recent series ‘Rhythm patterns’, is made with wool and more robust plots. It is about called ‘nudo gurullo’, An ancient technique that Serrano recovers in dialogue with artisans, while reinventing to incorporate new designs and multiply its inventory of colors.
This garden is completed with metal structures that support natural plants, which, subject to complex chemical processes, are wrapped in crystallizations of unexpected shapes and colors, even for the artist herself.
Leonor Serrano Rivas
‘For a submerged being.’ Carlier Gallery | Gebauer. Madrid. C/ José Marañón, 4. Until April 30. Four stars.
It is a transformation process that remains latent and that synthesizes the main hypothesis that underlies this beautiful sample: in front of the taxonomies and borders of traditional thought, everything we classify Under terms nature or culture It is, in essence, the metamorphosis of the same life.
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