Lola Warrior

Lola Guerrera - Without title

Técnica: Photography printed on Hahnemuler paper

Biografía del Artista: Lola Guerra is a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1932. Guerra is known for her work in sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. Guerra studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia and the School of Art in Madrid. She has participated in group exhibitions in Spain and abroad since the 1950s, and her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions. Throughout her career, Guerra has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work. In 1972, she was awarded the National Prize for Engraving, and in 1983 she received the National Prize for Plastic Arts. In 1992, she was named an Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. In addition to her career as an artist, Guerra has also been an art teacher and has taught at several schools and universities. She has been recognized as an important figure in the Spanish art scene and has influenced several generations of artists.

THE LAST FRONTIER, THE LIGHT We live in a world of borders. Real and imaginary, geographical, political, linguistic, economic. A world fragmented by limits, categories, barriers, boundaries; subject to tensions and forces that are repeated in every human being. Because the most obtuse borders, the cliffs more abrupt, are those that live in each one of us. All our potentialities, the entire universe of realities that we could live, fit into the heartbeats n. Also all the gags that will prevent us from achieving them, all our fears, our chains. That is our last frontier. A border that does not appear on any map, invisible and magnetic, changing, ethereal. So far so close. In this project, Lola Guerrera uses light as a metaphor for that final frontier. Recreating the immensity of the constellations (that last horizon of the known universe, awe-inspiring and seductive as the abyss), Lola Guerrera manages to suggest that feeling of isolation and fragility that haunts the human being. It is also a way of relating the lowest and the absolute. From the reflection on the ephemeral and the vulnerable, a more introspective, more abstract view is born. A search for the essential. Taking light as raw material, it returns to the origins, both philosophical as material. By constructing galaxies and timeless spaces, the artist also reflects the terrifyingly intimate and staff. In this project, Lola Guerrera's work decisively takes a new path. It deals with a abrupt movement, rather it is a smooth and progressive turn of the gaze. The final frontier: ourselves. Text by Laura Castillo