Sunday 18 May, 12:00 h.
International Museum Day ~Meeting with sculptor Lola Guerrera~.
Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engravings
Meeting with sculptor Lola Guerrera and presentation of the sculpture deposited in the Museum by courtesy of the Isolina Arbulu art gallery.
The work; Collision 2018 -Lola Guerrera
Sculpture made with flowers and dry branches, with hardening and conservation treatment. Nylon threads and wooden structure.
270 x 120 x 120 cm
Lola Guerrera (Córdoba 1982)
Lola Guerrera understands art as a way of explaining and making the larger things understandable through the smaller ones. Her work deals with themes of great philosophical or scientific depth, constructing subtle metaphors with everyday and familiar elements. There is a solicitous attitude in her art, striving to make intelligible and beautiful that which, because of its magnitude, often escapes our understanding.
As a skilful constructor of metaphors, Lola ensures that sign and meaning coincide in each work. The sign: dry leaves, seeds, plants, bushes, vases with flowers, branches - elements taken from the natural environment or placed in it. The meaning: cycles of life (life and death), the suspension of planets in the universe, nebulae, the principle of entropy - concepts of considerable complexity derived from the world of science. The key lies in the connection Guerrera achieves between these two worlds, different but similar, governed by the same physical laws. Thus, she makes the smallest and most fragile natural elements speak of universal immensity. This involves connecting two very different languages: botanical or phytological knowledge and the figures of the scientific world (prisms, photographs of telescopes, the armillary sphere).
Trained as a photographer, Lola Guerrera began her career constructing images that existed only to be photographed - ephemeral pieces that seek a connection with uncertainty.
International Museum Day ~Meeting with sculptor Lola Guerrera~.
Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engravings
Meeting with sculptor Lola Guerrera and presentation of the sculpture deposited in the Museum by courtesy of the Isolina Arbulu art gallery.
The work; Collision 2018 -Lola Guerrera
Sculpture made with flowers and dry branches, with hardening and conservation treatment. Nylon threads and wooden structure.
270 x 120 x 120 cm
Lola Guerrera (Córdoba 1982)
Lola Guerrera understands art as a way of explaining and making the larger things understandable through the smaller ones. Her work deals with themes of great philosophical or scientific depth, constructing subtle metaphors with everyday and familiar elements. There is a solicitous attitude in her art, striving to make intelligible and beautiful that which, because of its magnitude, often escapes our understanding.
As a skilful constructor of metaphors, Lola ensures that sign and meaning coincide in each work. The sign: dry leaves, seeds, plants, bushes, vases with flowers, branches - elements taken from the natural environment or placed in it. The meaning: cycles of life (life and death), the suspension of planets in the universe, nebulae, the principle of entropy - concepts of considerable complexity derived from the world of science. The key lies in the connection Guerrera achieves between these two worlds, different but similar, governed by the same physical laws. Thus, she makes the smallest and most fragile natural elements speak of universal immensity. This involves connecting two very different languages: botanical or phytological knowledge and the figures of the scientific world (prisms, photographs of telescopes, the armillary sphere).
Trained as a photographer, Lola Guerrera began her career constructing images that existed only to be photographed - ephemeral pieces that seek a connection with uncertainty.
May 14, 2025
