|| Noni Lazaga
An artist from Madrid with a PhD in Fine Arts. In recent years she has been interested in space, perception and the void.
She works with
various techniques and materials: paint and especially installations. In her installations, she investigates ephemeral constructions made with wool, entitled space events. Exhibited in 2007 in the Amparo Gamir gallery, there is a direct interaction with the public´s perception of them, force fields and the architectural space in which they take place. She is an expert in oriental fibres and has worked in recent years with gampi, mitsumata and kozo.
She has lived for long periods in
different countries, such as Egypt and Japan, where she was given grants to carry out various studies. This research led to the publication of two books: "Washi, el papel japon´s" (Washi, Japanese Paper) (Editorial Clan, 2000) and "La caligraf�a japonesa. Origenes y relación con los movimientos abstractos occidentales" (Japanese Calligraphy. Origins and Relation with Western Abstract Movements) (Editorial Hiperión, 2007).
In the artistic field, she has been exhibiting since 1989, participating in numerous exhibitions in Spain and abroad. Among others: Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria (Egypt), Paper Museum (Mino, Japan), Metropolitan Museum (Tokyo, Japan), ARCO (Madrid, Spain)� One of her most noteworthy pieces made for public spaces is the last one, recently opened in the main post office of the Palacio de Comunicaciones at Cibeles in Madrid.
In the last ten years,
she has been working with pieces and installations that interact with the various spaces where they are located and she has been especially interested in oriental paper and fibres, as they are versatile and because of their connection with nature, and she later wrote a book about them. Within this context, and via these same cultures (Arab and Japanese), she became interested in the spatial meaning of the active void in both through calligraphies.
One of the conceptual challenges that
has marked her work has been to make the invisible visible, such as drawing in the air, treating it as a solid and not a gaseous medium. Similarly, she has also worked with hypothetical planes in space created through force fields that give each piece its character.
The material chosen had to be simple and elastic to be able to move through enormous areas, which is why she chose air and wool, almost non-existent and virtually ephemeral, but with enough force to evidence the value of a line that is sometimes capable of going through walls.
"Acontecimiento espacial granaíno 1 / Granadine Spatial Event 1":
- installation in the Carmen de la Victoria -
Carmen de la Victoria (Cuesta del Chapiz).
From 18 to 21 December, from 10:00 to 14:00 hours and from 17:00 to 19:00 hours.
She has used the void of the architecture of a pergola made of cypresses in the Carmen de la Victoria. Some abstract calligraphies created with kozo fibre float in the empty space. The fibre has been extracted from inside the branches of a Japanese tree of the mulberry family, which is normally used to make paper. The plant essence of the architectural structure is the same as that of the calligraphies. The idea is to create a spatial, almost dreamlike, poem, in which the nature of the site blends with the new shapes created by the oriental material.
"Acontecimiento espacial granaíno 2 / Granadine Spatial Event 2":
- installation in the Palacio de los Córdova -
Palacio de los Córdova (Cuesta del Chapiz).
From 18 to 21 December, from 10:00 to 14:00 hours and from 17:00 to 19:00 hours.
Using the architecture of the central courtyard, she is interested in connecting the various unmovable architectural elements by almost imperceptible lines in space. Modulating empty spaces and making something invisible visible.
