Teresa Lanceta Barcelona, Spain, born 1951
ORÁN - ALICANTE, 2006
Wool and cotton fabric
76 x 58 inches
193 x 147.3 cm
193 x 147.3 cm
Over her five-decades long career, Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta has expanded the art of textile beyond practical enactments of materiality and towards a mode of epistemological inquiry. The patterns and...
Over her five-decades long career, Spanish artist Teresa Lanceta has expanded the art of textile beyond practical enactments of materiality and towards a mode of epistemological inquiry. The patterns and compositions seen across her work are intrinsically founded upon the physical structure of the woven, sewn, and fiber form and the idea of technique as a universal code. As in her weavings, the repetitive interlocking of weft and warp constitutes the fundamental “open source” of language, generating unique, unscripted conversations of thread and color with each successive weave.
