In an interview with Blair Dessent in TL Magazine, Valérie Bach discusses Lita Albuquerque's exhibition Early Works.
TLmag: Why the focus on historical works?
V.B.: The exhibition is incredibly ambitious. For Lita’s first exhibition at the gallery, we believe it was crucial to present the historical context of her work and establish a solid foundation for her vast and ongoing career.
The exhibition focuses on Lita Albuquerque’s early ephemeral works and sculptures. It includes a selection of 12 works that illustrate the artist’s innovative use of her preferred materials, rock and pigment, and how her early practice was uniquely situated at the intersection of the Southern California Light & Space movement and the Land Art movement of the 1970s. After the 1980s, Albuquerque continued to develop her practice of ephemeral works beyond Southern California, creating major works on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, in the Al-Ula Valley in Saudi Arabia and,
most notably, on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It was important for us to give the European public the opportunity to discover the work of this internationally renowned artist, who is still too rarely exhibited in Europe.
Read the full interview on the TLMagazine site.
