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. She is known for using new technologies in her art. Marisa is considered a pioneer in Spain for this work. She creates art using photography, installations, video art, and net art. She was also the Vice President of Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (Women in the Visual Arts) from 2010 to 2016.
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Marisa González: Early Life and Education
Marisa González started her art studies in her hometown of Bilbao. In 1967, she moved to Madrid. There, she studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. While studying in 1970, she helped organize the First Permanent Exhibition at the School of Fine Arts. She showed her work alongside other students and famous artists. She finished her studies in 1971.
Studying Art and Technology in the USA
In 1971, Marisa moved to the United States. She earned a Master's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She focused on using new technologies in art. This was in the Generative Systems department. She learned from the department's founder, Sonia Landy Sheridan.
In 1974, she joined a program for artists in Washington D.C. This was at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Here, she worked on projects about women's issues. She collaborated with her professor, Mary Beth Edelson. During her time in the US, she also joined protests against the Vietnam War.
Marisa graduated from the Corcoran School in 1977. The next year, she returned to Madrid. She continued her art and held her first solo exhibitions.
Important Exhibitions and Projects
Marisa González was part of the first ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in 1982. She showed her work with Gallery Aele. From 1983 to 1990, she was on the Board of Directors for the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
Exhibiting at the Reina Sofía Museum
In 1986, Marisa participated in a special exhibition. It was the opening show for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The exhibition was called Procesos: Culture and New Technologies. She exhibited alongside her former teacher, Sonia Landy Sheridan. Other famous artists like Marina Abramović and Salvador Dalí were also part of the show.
Exploring Technology in Art
In 1992, Marisa led an art workshop in Madrid. It was called The Poetic of Technology. She worked with American artists Sonia Sheridan, John Dunn, and Jamy Sheridan. The next year, she created an interactive art piece. It was called Station Fax/Fax Station. This installation used fax machines.
Also in 1993, she started her Clónicos series. In this series, she used dolls to represent the human body. She created these works using a special photo-video-computer called Lumena. John Dunn invented it, and Sonia Sheridan gave it to Marisa.
Documenting Industrial Change
Around the year 2000, Marisa started a new project. It focused on old industrial buildings. This project was called La Fábrica. She documented the taking apart of an old flour factory in Bilbao. Later, she also documented the Lemóniz nuclear power plant. This plant was never used. Marisa collected items and documents from these sites. She used them to create new art installations.
Recent Works and Exhibitions
In 2014, Marisa was part of an international exhibition. It was called Genealogías Feministas (Feminist Genealogies). This big show at the MUSAC Museum in León, Spain, looked at the history of women artists.
Her recent projects focus on women from different cultures. These projects include Ellas filipinas, El mensaje del Kanga, and Burma. In 2012, she was the only artist invited to the Venice Biennale of Architecture. She showed Ellas filipinas there. In 2013, she also participated in the Genealogías Feministas exhibition at the MUSAC.
In 2015, Marisa had a big exhibition called Registros Domesticados. It was shown in Madrid and later in Santiago de Compostela in 2016. In 2018, she showed part of her Ellas filipinas project. This was at the Hidden Workers exhibition in Seoul, Korea.
Exhibitions
- Registros Domesticados. museum CGAC 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. First individual exhibition in Madrid.
Images for kids
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Marisa González with Spanish Queen Sofía at the opening of the new Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid in 1986
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Exhibiting at the ARCO art fair in its first edition in 1982
See also
In Spanish: Marisa González para niños
