5 mujeres que revolucionaron el mundo del arte
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5 women who revolutionized the art world

Mar 08, 2023

International Women's Day is a day dedicated to the fight for equality, participation and empowerment of women in all areas of society.

Throughout history, many women in different fields have seen their talents hidden behind the male figure. Over the years and with the continuous struggle of society, we have seen how many women have fought to have their work recognized and leave their mark on this world.

Within the artistic panorama we highlight 5 names that marked a before and after in the world of art.

1. Esther Ferrer

The work of the artist Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, Spain, 1937) moves between performance art, collage , photography, drawing and sound work. Her work is part of the minimalist and conceptual movements that began in the 1960s, as well as the feminisms of the time and dematerialized art. Ferrer is one of the main representatives and pioneers of performance art in Spain, as well as a committed feminist whose artistic and theoretical production has contributed to giving visibility to the problems associated with women. In 1999 she was one of the two artists who represented Spain at the Venice Biennale, in 2008 she was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts, in 2012 the Gure Artea Prize of the Basque Government, in 2014 the MAV Prize (Women in the Visual Arts), the Marie Claire Prize for Contemporary Art and the Velazquez Prize.

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2. Elena Asins

Elena Asins (Madrid, Spain, 1940) is considered one of the pioneers of cybernetic art in Spain. She brings together the constructive tradition of the 20th century avant-garde with computing and information theory from the 1960s, and is considered one of the pioneers of computer-assisted art in Spain. Linked to some of the most innovative projects in the recent history of Spanish art, such as the Cooperativa de Producción Artística y Artesana or the Centro de Cálculo at the Complutense University of Madrid, Asins has used a wide range of formats and media in her work (from concrete poetry to video, through drawing, sculpture and installation), always characterised by compositional rigour and formal refinement.

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3. Cristina Iglesias

Cristina Iglesias Fernández Berridi (San Sebastián, Spain, 1956) is a sculptor and engraver, winner of the National Prize for Plastic Arts and one of the most international Spanish artists of recent decades. Belonging to a generation of artists who since the 1980s have transformed the concept of sculpture in the field of installations, her works reflect an aesthetic vocabulary based on the use of different materials (concrete, alabaster, resin, iron, glass, sometimes combined with plant motifs such as bamboo and leaves) and different techniques (bas-relief, tapestry or large-format screen printing on silk and copper), and reveal the artist's interest in space, architecture, literature and geology.

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4. Isabel Muñoz

Isabel Muñoz Vilallonga (Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1951) is a Spanish photographer based in Madrid. Isabel Muñoz's images solemnise the body. Concerned with shapes and light, Isabel Muñoz shows us the detail in close-up. Muñoz discovers sensuality and wants us to approach and re-examine the everyday, inviting us to perfectly perceive what goes unnoticed. The sixth woman elected to the Academy of Fine Arts was a late photographer who has now won all the awards: the National Photography Award (2016), two World Press Photo Awards and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.

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5. Blanca Muñoz

Blanca Muñoz (Madrid, Spain, 1963) Gonzalo is a Spanish artist, engraver and sculptor. She mainly uses steel and perforated sheet metal, both in her monumental works and in small pieces, also incorporating steel wires into her engravings to turn them into sculptures. Blanca Muñoz's sculptural activity has continued in interventions in public spaces, where she has shown that the interaction of materials and precise colouring achieve a perfect adaptation of the sculptures to the environment, whether urban or landscape.

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