The 2026 edition of the KORA series, which aims to raise the profile of female artists living in Spain, presents the work of Irma \u00c1lvarez-Laviada. Described as expanded painting or the painting as a material object, in her works the stretcher, the canvas or paper, the mat, the frame, the support and the offcuts, foam and other protective materials, and all the possible layers that can be added as structural elements, construct artefacts that speak to the self-referentiality of painting in the post-minimalist tradition. <\/p>\n\n
And perhaps something more. His works in the interstice, both within and outside the frame, generated from discards and negatives of basic geometric forms, with their meticulous finish, allude to inclusions and exclusions in the modern tradition of Western art, as already noted by Jacques Derrida in his critique of Kantian aesthetics in his Parergon<\/em>: between the pure and the decorative; and between disinterested aesthetic experience and mercenary and ideological interest in art, as Pierre Bourdieu would add in his commentary in Distinction<\/em>. They also allude to other exclusions outside the framework of the canonical art-historical narrative, such as those attributed to the artists themselves, and to patrons, collectors, gallery owners and museum founders who, without doubt, were involved in decorations and adaptations, from frames to a myriad of practical matters concerning the arrangement of works of art in the rooms of palaces, galleries and other public and private spaces. An exclusionary narrative that \u00c1lvarez-Laviada\u2019s work\u2014with its precision, repetitive, pragmatic calculation and patient meditation, which reveals the humble poetics of ordinary materials\u2014all qualities considered feminine in the distribution of gender stereotypes within our cultural tradition\u2014highlights and helps to dismantle. <\/p>\n\n Through this project, we explore the importance of extending the gender perspective to formal abstraction, whilst also highlighting the pioneering work of artists who preceded Irma \u00c1lvarez-Laviada, such as Joe Baer\u2014the only female painter in the Minimalist group, yet subsequently forgotten\u2014and others in the wake of the major exhibition \u201cWomen of Abstraction\u201d held at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2021\u20132022. This feminist perspective rewrites the relationship between female artists and abstraction, as well as the established narrative regarding abstraction itself within hegemonic historiography. Thus, we now see how female artists working in organic abstraction had to confront, through their own language, a notion of abstraction that was universalist, intellectual and masculine. This situation shifts in the post-minimalist paradigm, where resonances of gender, sexual orientation, race, social class and age are incorporated. This is the appropriate framework within which to situate the work under consideration. <\/p>\n\n Building on this foundation, Inside and Outside the Frame<\/em> offers a fresh interpretation of Irma \u00c1lvarez-Laviada\u2019s work, unpacking her artistic vocabulary and revealing various combinations of textures, colours and forms. The interplay and processes involved in creating expanded painting and cast artefacts foster synesthetic experiences, thereby refining the aesthetic experience. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32118,"template":"","class_list":["post-32285","la-viewing-room","type-la-viewing-room","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisadelantadovlc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/la-viewing-room\/32285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisadelantadovlc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/la-viewing-room"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisadelantadovlc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/la-viewing-room"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisadelantadovlc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisadelantadovlc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}