EDUARDO TERRANOVA
New York, New York, United States
About | Eduardo Terranova
My inspirations and visions derive from my personal heritage that is intimately involved with both pre-Columbian gold and shamanism. This gives me the impetus to create, in the belief that the glitter of metals is more than mere reflections, more than optically perceived phenomena.
Stretching the walls of painting and moving away from the traditional two dimensionality, the 'new constructions' allow me to codify and translate my work into a new metaphysics of the "painted surface" and toward a new form of abstraction. This abstraction is embodied on different processes such as gouging canvas and assuaging it by hand stitching as a concept of repair and, as a constant in nature and our everyday lives or, simply by building plaster on burlap fabric to create endless landscapes.
Light, shadows and an infinity of scintillations emerge to become then, the subject matter of the new relief-like works. The light sparking from a stitch or repair is then the "healer and light breather on the infinite process of repair. The works evoke then an incredible sense of light, space, movement and time. My key elements in art are plaster, metallic plated paints and needle&thread. My aspiration is to transmit a magical and fertilizing energy to humanity through my works and to follow my passion for artistic possibilities in contemporary art.
Artist Statement
"The moonness of silver creates an electrifying elegance and transient softness. In this embrace, the reflection of silver is both balance and filter, allowing insight into who we are and what we feel. It is through this silver lense that we understand calmness, purity and essence."
Born: Cali, Colombia
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island
1998 Bachelor of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
2013 YAMANA Gold Inc. Toronto Canada
2013 Broad Scale Commercial Bank, Irvine, California
2012 3 Rooms Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 Hotel Polar Stern, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
2016 Nelson Mullins, New York, NY
COMING UP EXHIBITIONS
2017 November 9-12. The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY - See "News" tab for more information
2017 Miami Spectrum
SOLO PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Corrugatus Aurea", Albarracin Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 "Baltic Images", Polar Stern Gallery, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
"Ha Performance", SITU Dance Company, New York, NY
2010 "The Shamanic Soul", Zelda Albarracin Gallery, New York, NY
"Disappeared and Vanished", Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2008 “Lost” Haven arts, New York, NY
"Stains", Viridian Artists Gallery, New York
2007 Viridian Artists, New York, NY
"Indelible Coffee", RICHART Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "On Immateriality", Nature Lab Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2005 "City Veil", Albarracin Penthouse Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 "The Urban Architect", Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea, New York
"Voids and Absence", RICHART Gallery, New York, NY
2002 City Reveiled", Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
"The invisible I", The Harlem Arts Council, New York, NY
2001 "Urban Chaos and other Orders", The National Arts Club, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Spectrum Miami - Coming up Show
The Other Art Fair-November 9-12, Brooklyn, NY - See "News" tab for more information
"The Secrete Garden" Studio 7 Gallery at Fort Tilden, Rockaway, NY
June-The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY - See "News" tab for more information
Superfine! Art Fair, New York, NY - See "News" tab for more information
New York Art Expo, Pier 94, NY -April 21-24 (Best New Exhibitor Award)
Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
2016 Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2016 Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
2015 Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
Albarracin Goyo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New York Art Expo, Pier 94, NY, NY
2014 (e)merge art fair, Washington DC 2014
Allan Poe Center Gallery, Bronx, NY
Wright Auction House, Chicago, IL
The Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, Virginia
2013 (e)merge art fair, Washington DC 2013
Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Oriet Fine Art, Monkton, MD
Sarah Hamlin Hastings, Charleston, SC
2012 "Roots", Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Yamana Executive Galleries, Toronto, Canada
2011 "Baltic Series", Kunsthalle Kuhlungsborn , Kuhlungsborn, Germany
Polar Stern Gallery, Kuhlungsborn, Germany
2010 "Exodus", Latin American Biennial, Lincoln Exhibition Space, The Bronx Museum of Art
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
"Geometry and Gesture", Elgar Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
The Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2009 Elgar Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Svenska Konstgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2008 Haven arts, New York, New York
“Men on Maps” Haven arts, New York, New York
MOYA, Museum of Young Artists, Vienna, Austria
Crisolart Galleries, Barcelona, Spain
FYR arte contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2007 Viridian Artists, New York, NY
2006 Nature Lab Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2005 Albarracin Penthouse Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
2003 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Pleiads Gallery, New York, NY
The Harlem Arts Council, New York, NY
2001 The National Arts Club, New York, NY
2000 The Museum of Abano Terme, Padua, Italy
Sala Todeschini al Montirone, Abano Terme, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Sandra Tyler, The Woven Tale Press, Vol. #6, July issue.
2017 Emily Jaeger, Art/Artist Interview: Eduardo Terranova, The Woven Tale Press, July 10
2016 Marina Cocher, "Un homme en or/A Golden Man", Style ST Barth, St. Barth, French West Indies
2013 Leslie Jones, "T.G.I. Nov. in DC", Art Nerd New York, NY
2013 Sarah Wilson, "Tracings", CURIATOR, Sept.
2012 Bric Blog, "Featured Artist", December 2012, Bric Organization, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Von Gerd Richardt, "Mit Sand vom Strand gemalt", Ostsee Zeitung, March 9
2011 Lutz Werner, "Funf Ganz Unterschiedliche Sichtweisen", Ostsee Zeitung, February 17
2010 Freya West, "One More Cup of Coffee", Nashville Arts Magazine,
2010 Emily Bartlett Hines, "Without a Trace - Dissapeared and Vanished", Nashville Scene, Feb. 4 volume29
2008 “Underground Artists Exposed”, the New York Post, September
2008 “Men on Maps”, the New York Magazine, September
2007 Ed McCormack, “Open Wounds” : Eduardo Terranova’s Heartrending-Tribute to the Disappeared, Gallery & Studio, September/October
2007 Art Calendar, The New York Sun, July
2003 Ed McCormack, “Submerged Pictorialism” in the Art of Eduardo Terranova,
Gallery & Studio, February/March
2001 Lauren A. Elkins and Sandra Yin, “Yorkville artist’s paintings on exhibit”, Our Town, February
2000 Sandro Bianda, “Abano, artisti latinoamericani in passarella”, Il Matino di Padova, July
2000 Alessandro Mandovani, “Centro Opere per Raccontare L’arte del Sur America”
Il Gazzetino, Museo Civico Abano Terme, July
2000 Catalogue, “Della Trasparenza”, International Exhibition, Museo Civico Abano Terme,Padua, August
2000 Catalogue, “Tre Mostre D’arte Latino-americana”, Latin American Museum, Miami, Florida
AWARDS
2017 Artexpo New York -Best New Exhibitor
2014 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC. Free exhibiton space, Capitol Skylight Hotel.
2013 (e)merge art fair, Washington, DC. Free exhibiton space, Capitol Skylight Hotel.
2012 Third Art Prize, Yamana, Toronto, Canada
2008 Honorary Mention, Svenska Kunstgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
2008 Leonardo Da Vinci Award, Technique and Composition
“One of a Thousand Disappeared”, FYR arte contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2003 RISD Award of Excellence - Art/Architecture, Providence
RESIDENCIES
2011 Mecklenburg Inspires Grant, Artist in Residence Individual Fellowship, Kuehlungsborn, Germany
2003 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Individual Grant