Eva Lootz holds her first exhibition on Eivissa

One of the most prestigious sculptors in the present day panorama, Eva Lootz (although she prefers to talk about objects more than sculptures) opened an exhibition of her work last Friday at the Van der Voort de Vila gallery, that can be visited until the end of August.

Lootz, born in Viena in 1940, came in the sixties to Spain and shared her time and work between Madrid and Valencia. In her first exhibition on Eivissa she is presenting objects containing sand, a material that this artist uses frequently. The sand, on coming out of the holes, obtains forms established by inertia. A few weeks ago, she presented an exhibition in Madrid, where the very birds became part of her artistic work. A report on this installation in the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro can be found on Libertad Digital.

Lootz is also presenting in the exhibition at the Van der Voort some of her "country pictures", fruit of her observation of nature, carried out on squared paper, where the drawings live together with philosophical texts or images. The Viennese artist is one of the references for sculptures in Spain since 1980. Her curriculum can be found on the web of the Galería Luis Adelantado and also a sample of her work. In 1994 Lootz received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas. On Internet a summary can be found of a conference given in Brazil called "Plomada, secreto y depresión" where she explained how the artist takes for his of her work what the architect rejects.

Pere Marí
coordinador@eivissaweb.com

Galeria Van der Voort
Plaça de Vila, 13
EIVISSA
Tel: 971300649

E-mail: vandervoortibiza@hotmail.com

Visiting times: Open every day of the week, afternoons from 7 to 11 p.m. and mornings by appointment.

Photos ceded by the Galeria Van der Voort

Date of publication: 30/07/2002

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