Marisa Gonzalez facts for kids
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Marisa Gonzalez
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| Employer | Artist Ex-vice-president of Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) |
Marisa González (born July 18, 1943) is a Spanish artist who creates art using many different types of media. She is known for being one of the first artists in Spain to use new technologies in her art. She works with photography, installations (art you can walk through), video art, and net art (art made for the internet). From 2010 to 2016, she was the Vice President of an organization called Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (Women in the Visual Arts), or MAV, which supports women artists.
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Marisa González's Journey in Art
Early Life and Art School
Marisa González grew up in Bilbao, Spain. In 1967, she moved to Madrid to study at a famous art school called the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. While she was still a student in 1970, she helped organize the first ongoing art exhibition at her school. She showed her own work alongside professional artists. She finished her studies there in 1971.
Learning New Technologies in Art
In 1971, Marisa moved to the United States to study for her master's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). There, she learned how to use new technologies in her art. She studied in a special department called "Generative Systems" with its founder, Sonia Landy Sheridan. This was all about using machines and new ideas to create art.
In 1974, she joined a program for professional artists at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC. It was there that she worked on a feminist art project called Violence Woman with her teacher, Mary Beth Edelson. This project explored women's issues and rights through art. While studying in the US, she also took part in protests against the Vietnam War, showing her commitment to peace.
She earned her degree from the Corcoran School in 1977. The next year, she returned to Madrid and started having her first solo art shows.
Important Exhibitions and Projects
Marisa González was part of the very first ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in 1982. This is a big art event in Spain.
In 1986, her work was shown in the opening exhibition of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. This is one of Spain's most important modern art museums. Her work was displayed alongside famous artists like Marina Abramović and Salvador Dalí.
In 1992, she led an art workshop in Madrid called The poetic of technology. She taught students how to combine art and technology. The next year, she and her students created an interactive art piece called Station Fax/Fax Station, which used fax machines!
Around the same time, she started a series of artworks called Clónicos. For these, she used dolls to represent the human body. She created these pieces using an early photo-video-computer called Lumena.
Documenting History and Industry
In the early 2000s, Marisa started a project called La Fábrica (The Factory). She documented old industrial buildings from the 20th century as they were being taken apart. For example, she photographed an old flour factory in Bilbao. Later, she also documented the Lemóniz nuclear power plant, which was never actually used. She collected objects and documents from these sites to create her art installations.
Global Recognition and Feminist Art
In 2014, Marisa was one of the artists in a major international exhibition called Genealogías Feministas (Feminist Genealogies) at the MUSAC Museum in León, Spain. This show looked back at the history of feminist art.
Her recent feminist projects feature images of women from different cultures. She uses her art to document their lives and stories. Some of these projects include Ellas filipinas (Filipino Women), El mensaje del Kanga (The Kanga's Message), and Burma. In 2012, she was the only artist invited to show her work at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, a huge international event. There, she showed her Ellas filipinas project.
In 2015, she had a big show of her past works called Registros Domesticados (Domesticated Records) in Madrid and Santiago de Compostela. In 2018, part of her Ellas filipinas project was shown in an exhibition called "Hidden Workers" at the Coreana Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul.
Key Exhibitions
- Registros Domesticados. CGAC Museum in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2016.
- Registros Domesticados in La Principal Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, Madrid, 2015.
- Nuclear Lemoniz. CAB de Burgos, Spain, 2004.
- La Fábrica. Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 2001.
- La Fábrica. Fundación Telefónica. Madrid, 2000.
- Procesos: Cultura y Nuevas Tecnologías. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, 1986.
- ARCO 1982. Galería Evelyn Botella (Galería Aele) Madrid, 1982.
- Electrografías. Galería Evelyn Botella (Galería Aele) Madrid, 1981. This was her first solo show in Madrid.
See also
In Spanish: Marisa González para niños
