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Third and final activity in the series of conversations with artists organised within the framework of the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló.

At this event, the exhibition curator María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco will converse with Soledad Sevilla, a leading figure in the development of geometric abstraction since the 1970s. Her work is on display in the “Geometric abstraction” section of the show.

All lectures take place at 7 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis.  Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the  website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona in the 1960s and then continued her training in the Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms Department at the University Madrid’s Computing Centre. She also attended classes at Harvard University in Boston, United States, in the 1980s. Although she was initially aligned with so-called rational abstraction, geometry and working with light are common threads of her plastic creation, which in the beginning was pictorial but in the 1980s gradually incorporated installations and interventions in the space. Her painting uses the cold quality of the grid as a basis on which unfold weaves and modular explorations, although a certain lyricism and expressiveness subsequently creep in. Towards the late 1990s grids disappeared from her painting, nevertheless preserving a notion of geometry, the wall and space through the plant world. In her installations, light is a central element, often treated geometrically. Sevilla has intervened in heritage spaces like the castle in Vélez Blanco, Almería, and some of the courtyards at the Alhambra in Granada. She has also conducted formal investigations into paintings and iconic figures of universal art history like Velázquez and Rubens.

Sevilla has shown her work in countless exhibitions during the course of her career, while venues like the Centro José Guerrero in Granada (2015), Galería Marlborough in Barcelona (2017), the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente in Fuenlabrada (2018) and the Centro Cultural Bancaja in Valencia (2019) have hosted retrospectives of her oeuvre. The Museo Reina Sofía and the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, Artium in Vitoria and the MACBA in Barcelona are just some of the institutions that hold her works in their collections. Among other distinctions for her achievements, she is the recipient of the National Plastic Arts Prize (1993), the Fine Arts Gold Medal of Merit (2007) and the Velázquez Award for the Plastic Arts (2020).