Elisa de la Torre (1990) - Maia

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
- Litografi på Fedrigoni-papir.
- Håndsigneret og nummereret.
- Leveret omhyggeligt emballeret og med et ægthedscertifikat.
- Tilhørende det kunstneriske projekt 'Pleiades', udstillet i Spanien i 2016.

THE STORY BEHIND

The objective of Pleiades is to make a proposal that brings into play the element of figurative creation from ambiguous elements such as the stars. This exercise has been carried out since the beginning of time, when primitive men, observing the starry sky, joined the stars to form figures and traced drawings, creating constellations. Pleiades shows a figurative interpretation of seven different constellations created from the cluster of stars called Pleiades or The Seven Sisters. The Pleiades were seven sisters from Greek mythology, daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea nymph Pleione. As a result, in the set of constellations formed by the mythological nude, the self-portrait of the artist reflected in the work itself, becomes part of this mythological story and related to its protagonists who, being several sisters are, in essence, the same figure. A plurality of constellations and figures that make up a single one.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Elisa de la Torre (Madrid 1990) is an artist who lives and works in Madrid. She has studied Fine Arts at Western Ontario University in Canada, Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid and RCM School of Printmaking. In 2015 she won the 1st Artist Book Prize of the Villa de Móstoles. Some of the exhibitions in which he has participated are Franqueados-JUSTMAD, Brita Prinz Arte Gallery (2017), Certamen Jóvenes Creadores in Calcografía Nacional and Tinta de Verano in Museo Casa de la Moneda (2016), Sala AVAM Matadero and Theredoom Gallery (2015), Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery (2014), Würth Museum of La Rioja and A/NT Gallery during his stay in the USA (2013). In last years has participated in a dozen of solo and group exhibitions in Spain, USA, Germany, Dubai or Austria.