MOLAA’S INAUGURAL LIVE ART AUCTION

LOT #23MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ (Venezuela, b. 1964)2dmslw004, from the series Mobile Drawings / 2dmslw004, de la serie Dibujos móviles, 2004Video, 15:55 min., ed. 1/5 + 2APGift of the artist, courtesy of Henrique Faria Fine Art, New YorkEstimated price: $7,000-$9,000Magdalena Fernández works mainly with sculpture, installation and video, responding to modernist andpost-modernist geometric and abstract masters such as Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Hélio Oiticica, andJoaquín Torres-García. Light and movement are fundamental aspects of Fernández's work, for example inthose pieces in which light draws the geometric shapes and projects volumes that are neither static norclearly delineated. In some of her videos, the sharpness and definition of the geometric shapes is dissolved bythe inner movement of those same lines, which transforms them into delicate, living, organic threads.2dmslw004, is the second video in the series Mobile Drawings, from 2004, and among the first in whichFernández began to dialogue with conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (US, 1928-2007), responding specifically tohis “wall drawings.” As LeWitt’s wall drawings are created following a set of systems and instructions, like inmusical compositions, Fernández responded to these works by mixing low and hi-tech with a drawing ofvinyl lines on a clear acrylic that is placed on a light box. The light box is placed at an angle over a bucketof water, and as light passes through the vinyl lines, the artist moves the water, resulting in a video ofwave-like intersecting vertical and horizontal lines that are actually made by the light passing through—therecording of a drawing in movement.Fernández began her studies in education, with a concentration in physics and mathematics, at UniversidadCatólica Andrés Bello before transferring to the Neumann Institute in Caracas where she studied graphicdesign and graduated in 1989. She continued her studies in graphic design at A.G. Fronzoni Studio in Milan,Italy. Selected exhibitions include: 2iPM009, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida, and MOLAA,Long Beach, 2011-2012; Moving Objects / Atmospheres-Structures-Earth, Periférico Caracas, Centro CulturalChacao, Faría+Fábregas Galería, Caracas, Venezuela, 2011; Space, Unlimited, Art Museum of the Americas,Washington, D.C., 2009; Surfaces, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, 2006; Light andAtmosphere, Miami Art Museum, 2004; and Geometría como vanguardia, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,2002. Fernández lives and works in Caracas. 25