<> Collective exhibition. Alba Cabrera Gallery (Valencia ) 2019
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We’re part of something global and we can’t escape
The plastic artist Carmen Baena (Belerda de Guadix, 1967), both sculpting iron and marble, as well as collage weaving landscapes, has in nature one of her main sources of inspiration. …
“El hilo que nos teje” Galerie Gilgenmann, Mendig (Alemania)
Warum ich die Arbeiten von Carmen Baena liebe Das Atelier von Carmen Baena liegt hinter ihrem Wohnhaus. Es ist unterteilt in einen Außen- und einen Innenbereich. Draußen ist das Lager …
“Áureo”- La Aurora Gallery (Murcia)
DREAMS OF STONE The magnitude of an artistic work should not be measured by its physical dimensions, but by its power to disturb us. That is why it is not …
“Donde habita el silencio” – Alba Cabrera Gallery (Valencia)
THE TOMB OF TUSITALA I found this photograph in an interview with Cees Nooteboom (Babelia 01.08.09). I recognized it immediately, but it left me perplexed. It was, but it was …
“De nieves y arboreceres” – Palau Altea Centre d´Art, Altea (Alicante)
OF SNOW AND TREES – Come, enter my house. It seems to tell us the work of Carmen Baena, inviting us to enter the intimate space of her dwellings. The …
“LAS RAICES DEL AIRE” – Art Centre Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada (Madrid)
“The places we live, and frequent never will disappear completely, we leave them without leaving them.” GEORGES PEREC Created from the roots of the air, from that subtle and intuitive …
“Arbóreo” – Bat Alberto Cornejo Gallery (Madrid) and Val i 30 Gallery (Valencia)
AERIAL ROOTS Although it seems obvious, you can’t start a text that talks about Carmen Baena’s work without making reference to the constant iconography that has accompanied it in recent …
“TEMPANOS DE TIEMPO” – Fotoencuentros 2004, La Aurora Gallery (Murcia)
FLOES OF TIME We forget the body, but the body doesn’t forget us. Us. Damn memory of the organs! – E.M. CIORAN Inhabit (in) a body iceberg. …