Exhibitions
Mayte Vieta: the sea as a metaphor for the inaudible
Light, sculpture and symbolic landscapes at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum.
Madrid is hosting a new exhibition by Mayte Vieta , an installation that, under the title A mar. A sempre de la absença, transforms the usual space of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and puts it in dialogue with a selection of works from the same collection. The artist displays around twenty pieces that combine photography, sculpture, light boxes and screen-printed mirrors. All of this revolves around an axis that runs through much of her career: the sea. Not as a landscape, but as an idea, as a metaphor for everything that crosses us and overflows us.
Born in Blanes, Girona, in 1971, Mayte Vieta is a visual artist who makes light and space two central elements of her work. She works with photography, sculpture and installation to construct environments that oscillate between beauty and rawness, from an intimate and introspective perspective. In this unique universe, she highlights the use of large-format photographs that portray landscapes without coordinates, indefinite scenarios often linked to marine environments and deprived of specific references, to symbolic spaces.
Comme j´aime que tu existes, Mayte Vieta (2023). © Mayte Vieta
The exhibition can be visited until July 6 and is part of the Punts de fuga program, an initiative promoted by the Vila Casas Foundation to make the artists in its collection visible in spaces outside Catalonia, and in this case curated by Natàlia Chocarro , art advisor to the Presidency of the Vila Casas Foundation. The exhibition occupies several spaces in the museum: in the gallery, four pieces from the Cuerpos de luz series can be seen, two of which are presented for the first time; on the ground floor, the sculptural piece En el vacío is exhibited surrounded by mirrors, multiplying its presence and the play with light; in the guest art room, a sculpture from the Preludio series is accompanied by photographs such as La Nada or Comme j'aime que tu existes, which appear in light boxes and enter into dialogue with mirrors screen-printed with words; Finally, another installation occupies the museum's portico: Animals of Time, with sculptural figures and five mirrors decorated with animal symbols.
Preludio, Mayte Vieta. © Mayte Vieta
The sea is a constant presence in the work of Mayte Vieta, an element that has accompanied her for over thirty years. In 1999, at the Sala Metrònom in Barcelona, she presented Silenci, a first foray into marine representation. Now, this presence becomes denser, becoming a symbol of what escapes our control. As the artist herself says, the depths of the ocean are the place where the body becomes vulnerable and small in the face of a nature that is both fascinating and unpredictable. In this exhibition, Vieta recovers her roots as a sculptor and installer, returning to work with matter, but also with the intangible: the weight of the air, slowness, the sensation of suspension... these are ideas that run through the pieces, where what is fleeting and what endures coexist and confront each other in the same space.
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