La producción plástica de María Luisa Fernández: una escultora leonesa en el País Vasco (1986-1993)

Abstract

The artist Maria Luisa Fernandez from Leon (Villarejo of Orbigo, born in 1955) studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country, where she was in contact with a number of artists, who used in a majority industrial materials and very cold forms in expressive level, while Maria Luisa Fernandez kept an interest in woodworking, as an element that showed her hereditary culture. She tried to break with the orthodoxy of minimalist parameters, through the use of colour, combination of materials and forms with incisive positions, which approached the patterns of post-Minimalist sculpture. Also it is representative her critical reflexion about the artists considered ideal and the use of sexist discourses in her installation Burlas Expresionitas from 1993, where finished the study of this text from the dissolution of the collective CVA from the mid of eighties.