CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
The good thing about retrospectives is that they reveal the evolution of an artist over the years., in this case, from the very school of Fine Arts. If you start at the end, vanishing point It includes classic figurative studies that Fuencisla Francés carried out when he was studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos., located at that time (years 70) in the same Ferreres room that now collects his retrospective. When leaving, in the center hallway, hangs the large Alexander Calder-style sculpture that gives its name to the exhibition, a rain of white wood fragments that falls from the sky generating infinite vanishing points. This exhibition collects the three elements that characterize Francés' work: the use of paper, fragmentation and site especific. The imposing thousand square meters of this overwhelming room are both container and content, because the artist has intervened directly on its walls, extending the work beyond the canvas. The start of the route is an explosion of tesserae that cover the walls of the hall from top to bottom, The artist deconstructs her work to rebuild it in thousands of tiny fragments that form a collage neat and meticulous. The materials used are fragile, but the whole is overwhelmingly powerful.
vanishing point is part of the call Trajectories of the Center del Carme, which aims to review the artistic path of Valencian artists or artists residing in València. And from the beginning she has done so with special sensitivity towards women artists. (Teresa Cebrian, Ana Teresa Ortega…), willing to alleviate the historical debt that the art world has with them. Fuencisla French, without going any further, She admitted at the presentation of the exhibition that she had felt silenced and forgotten.. Here it is claimed with collage that evokes glass breaking in slow motion, pillars that invite the viewer to enter the painting, and installations where sound enhances forms and generates sensations. Resonances (2004-07), probably the piece she is most proud of, also the most contemporary, It is a black room illuminated with fluorescent light from which reflective tiles hang, creating an overwhelming atmosphere with the singing of Fátima Miranda. Fair review of a very interesting artist. S.M.
