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Magdalena Fernández - Artists - GALERÍA RGR

(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.

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Magdalena Fernández

7e023, 2023

Green and white rope 6mm tied with green rope 3mm

218 x 25 x 25 cm

85 53/64 x 9 27/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

7e023, 2023

Green and white rope 6mm tied with green rope 3mm

218 x 25 x 25 cm

85 53/64 x 9 27/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Inquire
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

4e023, 2023

2mm steel wire

195 x 40 x 40 cm

76 49/64 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in

Unique

Inquire
Magdalena Fernández

7e005, 2005

Rope

136 x 6 cm

53 19/35 x 2 46/127 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

7e005, 2005

Rope

136 x 6 cm

53 19/35 x 2 46/127 in

Unique

Inquire
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

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

Inquire
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 

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

Inquire
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

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

Inquire
Magdalena Fernández

2d018, 2018

Chinese ink and acrylic

35.5 x 25 cm

13 31/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

2d018, 2018

Chinese ink and acrylic

35.5 x 25 cm

13 31/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Inquire
Magdalena Fernández

4d018, 2018

Chinese ink gouache

35 x 24.9 cm

13 25/32 x 9 51/64 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

4d018, 2018

Chinese ink gouache

35 x 24.9 cm

13 25/32 x 9 51/64 in

Unique

Inquire
Magdalena Fernández

7e023, 2023

Green and white rope 6mm tied with green rope 3mm

218 x 25 x 25 cm

85 53/64 x 9 27/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

7e023, 2023

Green and white rope 6mm tied with green rope 3mm

218 x 25 x 25 cm

85 53/64 x 9 27/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

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

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

7e005, 2005

Rope

136 x 6 cm

53 19/35 x 2 46/127 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

7e005, 2005

Rope

136 x 6 cm

53 19/35 x 2 46/127 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

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 

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

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

Magdalena Fernández

2d018, 2018

Chinese ink and acrylic

35.5 x 25 cm

13 31/32 x 9 27/32 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

4d018, 2018

Chinese ink gouache

35 x 24.9 cm

13 25/32 x 9 51/64 in

Unique

Magdalena Fernández

4d018, 2018

Chinese ink gouache

35 x 24.9 cm

13 25/32 x 9 51/64 in

Unique