Author Description

For more than five decades, Eduardo Terrazas has created a remarkable body of work comprising architecture (his training discipline), urban design and interventions and painting, as well as a distinctive type of two-dimensional pieces produced with wool strand. From his activities as Artistic Director and Coordinator of the Identity Program of the XIX Olympic Games of 1968 in Mexico City, to his series of works Posibilidades de una estructuraʺ, his projects have stood out for their iconic characteristics. Moreover, they are united by their humanist vocation. They have a sense of innovation that seeks to reconcile the local and the traditional with modern and global art, they try to articulate situations of socialization. Likewise, in the series Tablas, Eduardo Terrazas takes up the technique of making nierika tables of the Wixárika people who live in Gran Nayar, a territory that covers four states of Mexico: Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango, and Zacatecas. The paintings and mosaics that the Wixaritari make with threads and small beads or beads, adhered with wax and resin on flat wooden surfaces whose compositions are obtained through rituals, dreams and visions that, embodied on the tables, are part of new ceremonial offerings. Terrazas opts for this technique to create a wide series of paintings with the first collaboration of the Wixárika artist Santos Motoapohua de la Torre de Santiago, creating images that are characterized by geometric synthesis, games of optical illusion, balance and influence between color fields, but at the same time manifest the tactile sensuality and expressiveness of traditional manufacture and materials used.