Vista de l'exposició Teresa Lanceta. Teixir com a codi obert, 2022. Foto: Miquel Coll
Exhibition
8 April to 11 September 2022
8 April to 11 September 2022
Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
For Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, 1951), the act of weaving constitutes a triggering of critical imagination beyond the confines of materiality. For her, weaving is an open-source formula of repetition and rupture, from which it is possible to read, transform and convey a knowledge that is always complex and plural. It is a procedure for which there is no rough outline to follow; where figure and ground, object and language, medium and image, come together at the same time, assuming the unexpected, along with error and success. Accepting the unexpected is for Lanceta a way of learning a primordial and universal source or code that clearly manifests an internal law; a law that transcends physical, temporal and cultural frontiers. For weaving is a techné – a ‘technical’ knowledge dependent on a specific geographical, cultural and human context, be it, in her case, Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, where she lived, or the Middle Atlas, which she visited every year for three decades. Both of these places fed her fascination for women’s work and the non-verbal communication of stories and emotional bonds.
Teresa Lanceta. Weaving as Open Source traces the artist’s trajectory from the 1970s through to the present day and includes a broad selection of tapestries, weavings, fabrics, drawings, photographs and videos, offering the most comprehensive overview of her work to date. The exhibition also explores Lanceta’s interest in collaborative work formats based around dialogues that she establishes with the help of ‘creative accomplices’, including Olga Diego, Pedro G. Romero and Xabier Salaberria; the curator Leire Vergara; the art collective La Trinxera; the filmmaker Virginia García del Pino; the artist and thinker Nicolas Malevé who, together with members of the Museum’s Education Department and pupils and teachers from Miquel Tarradell secondary school, has spent the last few years developing the project The Trades in the Raval.
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Teresa Lanceta
Barcelona, 1951
After studying History and doing a PhD in Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Teresa Lanceta spent long periods of time in Alicante, Granada, Madrid, Seville and Marrakesh. She has taught at the School of Architecture in Alicante and at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. From the early 1970s, Lanceta opted for weaving as a form of artistic expression, blurring the boundaries between what is considered art and craft. She is interested in the elements of formal exploration, but also in material and technical matters, and in the traditions and ways of life associated with weaving, a form of creation that operates without preliminary drawing and in which figure and ground are developed simultaneously. Through textiles, Lanceta has discovered a primitive human source or code and has come into contact with the cultures of different societal groups such as the Romani peoples and Moroccan nomadic weavers, incorporating their artistic traditions and ways of life in a dialogue with her own tapestries, paintings and drawings, as well as her theorising.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària, Barcelona (1989); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Elche (1995); Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2000); Ville des Arts, Casablanca (2000); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2016); Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga, Bilbao (2016); and Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona (2017–18). She has participated in the biennales of Cairo (2009), São Paulo (2013, 2014) and Venice (2017). Her work is in the collections of collections where her work is located are the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo; Fundación José Cuervo, Mexico; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; MACBA, Barcelona, among others.
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Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
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Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
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gallery of images
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Activity
From June 29th to July 22nd 2022
Looking out of the corner of one’s eye
Activity
Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 June 2022
Up and down the stairs
Activity
Saturday, 14 May 2022
El círculo y la flor
Activity
Sunday, 30 April 2022
P2P. L’art com a codi obert a l’ensenyament
Activity
Wednesday 9 and 30 March 2022
Trabajo de estudio (Study Work)
Activity
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Visit to Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
Activity
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Guided tours to Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
Activity
Sundays, until 11 September 2022
Let’s talk about… Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
Activity
Thurdays 21 and 28 April and 5 May 2022
A conversation between Teresa Lanceta, Nuria Enguita and Laura Vallés
Activity
Thursday, 7 April 2022
videos
2 results
La veu de l'artista | Teresa Lanceta | MACBA – YouTube
La veu de l'artista | Teresa Lanceta | MACBA – YouTube
Teresa Lanceta parla de l'exposició "Teresa Lanceta. Teixir com a codi obert". «Teixir em va atrapar, i ho va fer d’una manera radical, absoluta, més enllà d…
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La veu de l'artista | Teresa Lanceta | MACBA – YouTube
Teresa Lanceta. Teixir com a codi obert | Exposició MACBA – YouTube