A study of Emilia Azcarate’s recent art work focused on her vital relationship with geometric abstractionism and her spiritual practices. These series of work adds on to the aesthetic and conceptual themes recurrent in the artist’s work, and are linked to abstraction as a way to manifest her spirituality.
The catalogue includes three bodies of work: the Practicables, Postcards and the Gohonzon series which incorporate processes, ideas and aesthetics related to her life and spiritual practice, Nichiren Buddhism.
Emilia Azcarate (Caracas, 1964) studied Fine Arts at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London in the eighties. She has participated in workshops and artist in residency programs in Venezuela and Trinidad. She was awarded the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation Grant, United States and the Arturo Michelena Prize, Venezuela. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are Henrique Farias Gallery, New York (2014), Distrito 4, Madrid (2011) and Farias Fabregas Gallery, Caracas (2010).
Text in English and Spanish.
90 colour illustrations