(Caracas, Venezuela, 1964)
Magdalena Fernández’s versatility as an artist is a reflection of her path through the fields of physics, mathematics, graphic design, visual and sound arts. Since the 1990s, she began to experiment with participative works that echoed the profound modernist history of Venezuelan art, referring to interventions in public spaces and collective experiences, similar to those configured by artists such as Jesús Rafael Soto.
Afterwards, Fernández has kept in dialogue with her modernist predecessors, establishing formal links in more recent media, both analogue and digital, that materialize abstraction into a historical discourse subject to widening, modifications, and distinct recoveries. An important part of this process of grounding has been to return to abstraction its worldliness, its connection to the natural environment and all those landscapes and soundscapes the experience of which transcends representation or metaphor. For Fernandez, the instability of the abstraction canon finds echoes in the instability of nature: change, movement, fragmentation and transformation. All these elements constitute the starting point to relate art, artist and spectator.
Through video, installations, sculpture, drawing and graphic works, the artist moves the body into structures that tend towards change, promoting the fluidity of something that in principle would appear entirely solid.
She currently lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela.
Magdalena Fernández
1i024, 2024
Silicone spheres, steel with electrostatic paint
Variable dimensions
Magdalena Fernández
4pea024, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 65 cm
25 1/2 x 25 1/2 in
Magdalena Fernández
7pea024, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 140 cm
55 x 55 in
Magdalena Fernández
3pea024, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 65 cm
25 1/2 x 25 1/2 in
Magdalena Fernández
1d020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Chinese ink on opaline paper
Unframed:
30 x 23 cm
11 3/4 x 9 in
Magdalena Fernández
9d020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Chinese ink on opaline paper
Unframed:
30 x 23 cm
11 3/4 x 9 in
Magdalena Fernández
5ea020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper
Unframed:
50 x 35 cm
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
Magdalena Fernández
1ea020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper
Unframed:
50 x 35 cm
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
Magdalena Fernández
10ea020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper
Unframed:
50 x 35 cm
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
Magdalena Fernández
12ea020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper
Unframed:
50 x 35 cm
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
Magdalena Fernández
13ea020, Series: Estructuras abiertas, 2020
Monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper
Unframed:
50 x 35 cm
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in
Magdalena Fernández
4e023, 2023
2mm steel wire
195 x 40 x 40 cm
76 49/64 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Unique
Magdalena Fernández
9e023, 2023
Wire with white rubber balls
220 x 42 x 42 cm
86 39/64 x 16 17/32 x 16 17/32 in
Unique
Magdalena Fernández
3ee020, 2020
Silicone spheres, steel with electrostatic paint
64 x 70 x 50 cm
25 12/61 x 27 19/34 x 19 37/54 in
Unique
Magdalena Fernández
5ee020, 2020
Silicone spheres and steel with electrostatic paint
190 x 180 x 60 cm
74 49/61 x 70 13/15 x 23 28/45 in
Unique
Magdalena Fernández
2d018, 2018
Chinese ink and acrylic
35.5 x 25 cm
13 31/32 x 9 27/32 in
Unique
