LUCY MATTOS
ARGENTINA
LUCY MATTOS
Renowned Argentine sculptress, her works range from monumental sculpture to artistic jewelry; she mainly focuses on the figure of Woman from a symbolic point of view.
She has an aesthetic presence with ethical and social commitment where Woman and her problematic occupies a central nucleus.
She uses bronze, silver, wood, white metals, acrylics, polyester resin, cement, alabaster and natural fibers, among other materials
In 1990 she created the polyester-intralight neon technique, which allows light to come from inside the artworks, breaking the paradigm of traditional sculpture.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires where she developed a broad international career.
First Argentine sculptress to inaugurate her own Museum, www.museolucymattos.com , located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, where it exhibits her artworks permanently and also temporary exhibitions of invited artists and multiple cultural activities.
Citibank distinguished her with the “Creative Women” award. The Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires recognizes her as “Outstanding Woman” in 2015.
60 Masters of Contemporary Art Award in France 2016 and New York 2018.
Nominated in 2017 for the Global Art Awards, final shortlist at Burj Khalifa in Dubai. In 2018 she presented her art video “Where are we going?” in Spain. In 2020 the Guggenheim Museum´s 60th Anniversary book and in 2021she exhibits in Hong Kong and at the Firenze Biennale, Italy.
Her artworks are owned by museums and private collectors from Argentina, Brazil, Panama, the United States, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Japan and South-Corea.
BIRDFISH WOMAN
1. What’s your background?
I am a professor of Fine Arts, specialized in Sculpture, graduated from the prestigious Prilidiano Pueyrredon University in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I have been working in my atelier in Buenos Aires since 1980 and I participate in exhibitions and art fairs. My monumental sculptures are located in public spaces. I give lectures and have taught and been part of juries.
In 2012 I created the Lucy Mattos Museum, of which I am its director.
I continue to make sculptures, art videos and artistic jewelry with great passion.
2. What does your work aim to say?
My works convey themes related to feelings. I aspire for each viewer to "feel" something that leave him thinking, only in this way I consider that the work to becomes "art".
3. How does your work comment on current social or political issues?
I deal with love, heartbreak and the strength of women, social issues that must be questioned from the perspective of my artworks, especially those referring to the historical condition of Women in the society in which we live.
4. Who are your biggest influences?
In my sculptures I am influenced by the masters Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and something by Salvador Dalí. I feel great admiration for Major Master Michelangelo Buonarroti.
5. How has your art evolved over the years?
I have started being abstract but when I realized that this modality did not connect me with all people -whether they have knowledge of art or not- I changed towards a new form, a neofiguration, especially in my installations.
6. What does art mean to you?
Art is for me one more language to express my feelings, my convictions, my desires, with a lot of passion and enjoyment in the continuous work.
7. What’s the most valuable piece of art to you?
It is one of the last ones I have made: a sculptural group with 7 figures 1.80 meters high that allude to gender violence. I also highly value my "Gender Strength" video art presented at Biennale Firenze Biennale 2021, Italy.
8. What’s next for you in the future?
I believe that in the future my work will be venturing into new virtual technologies and the making of new art videos.
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