Lilian blog

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2007-04-16T22:26:00.000-07:00

Hands, Hickeys, and Hurly-Burly
Art Basel leaves its mark on Wynwood
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus Published: December 14, 2006
During Art Basel Miami Beach last year, Lilian Fernandez was crestfallen that none of her abstract paintings was on display at any of the fairs' events or exhibits.
To cope with her depression, she ritualistically ripped one of her canvases, The Flowers That My Mother Painted, into 38 envelope-size sections, wrote the title of the work and her information on the back of them, and handed them out to strangers at the Miami Beach Convention Center, hoping her luck would change.
"I did it as a cleansing, sending the work out into the world sort of like a message in a bottle that people toss into the ocean, dreaming of a response in the future," the Cuban artist said. "My hope was that this year I would have the opportunity to exhibit my work during the fair and that the people I gave the pieces to would remember my performance."
During the past several months, Fernandez peppered Miami with flyers bearing images of her shredded painting, offering anyone who returned the pieces a reward. She did so as part of an effort to restore the work for her Basel project at the recently opened GIL Art Gallery in Wynwood.
Even though Fernandez still found herself a world away from the glitz and glamour of the convention center big top, by early Friday, some of the strangers she encountered last year had shown up with six sections of the painting. She exchanged them for one of her works. "I wanted to reconstruct the piece as part of the cycle. The response has been humbling," Fernandez said, adding with a laugh that instead of her going to Basel, it was now coming to her.
Despite the hundreds of artists scattered in and around the convention center and the smattering of small fairs on the Beach this past weekend, many collectors in town for Art Basel seemed to be sinking their attention and cash into Wynwood. I stuck to the hood to see what all the hurly-burly was about. ..............

2006-07-11T14:38:00.000-07:00

Series: "Red System"
Installation, Cuba, 2001

2006-07-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

"Comfort for the "Asleep Awareness"(2001), (Installation performance)
I made this artwork using the hair of many of my friends and neighbors,
First I cut my own hair, then I went to a couple of beauty salons and asked the people to cooperate giving their hair for my installation, collecting the hair was hard but I enjoyed the process,

Series: "Momentum"
Acrylic on canvas
36"x36"

"My artwork is an integration of lines, textures, and shapes to explore human sexuality based in my own experience living in this world and confrontig the heavier questions of life in to my paintings"

take From Agora gallery, New YorK, NY
Lilian Fdez vivid abstract expressionism reveals a deep concern with both somber weightiness and an irrepressible urge toward flight. Her paintings repeatedly explore the fluidity of boundaries, and the degrees of coherence between form and background. Coal-gray tones are balanced by flame-like detailing, with a tension created between the fullness of the dark colors with the striving of the lighter colors. Her repeated exploration of a central spiral shape placed against an opposing color reveals the pathos in her works, the obsession at the heart of being human.

Lila values the repeated exploration of the same emotional and psychological territory, the same narrative which is implied in her works. She makes use of the possibilities in her art form to explore themes of personal vulnerability, intuition and the challenges of craft. Both a source of frenetic energy as well as personal centeredness, Lila Fernan's work frequently reveals a mind deeply in touch with the human state of ambivalence.

(OPP)- Programing Oriented to Objects, was a ciclycal exhibition an interactive cycle open to the public