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Eduardo Terrazas

Eduardo Terrazas

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    Eduardo Terrazas

    29.2, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in. (120 x 120 cm)
    Framed: 48 ⅞ x 48 ⅞ x 2 in. (124 x 124 x 5 cm)
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  • Biography
    Eduardo Terrazas

    To make it more understandable for me and to transmit it to my fellow human beings, I decided that a cosmos is a square.

    Eduardo Terrazas  (b. 1936, Guadalajara, Mexico) is a Mexican artist and architect who is celebrated for his substantial contributions to the fields of art, architecture, design, museology, and urban planning in his native country. Trained as an architect, Terrazas has over his five-decade career combined modernist geometric abstraction with Mexican folk techniques in works whose aesthetic has come to define contemporary Mexican art. Terrazas first gained international acclaim for his logo and promotional materials for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, which he co-designed with Lance Wyman. The motif, based on a Huichol textile, was heralded for foregrounding Mexican traditional folk design and infusing it with a modern graphic sensibility. In the 1970s, he began a series of investigations into geometric forms that would serve as a through line within his artistic career. These investigations, combined with the appropriation of techniques from Mexican folk art, have resulted in a unique language that navigates both contemporary art and craft traditions.

    Terrazas has held positions as a lecturer in Architectural Design at Columbia University, New York from 1964 to 1965; the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1970; and Cidoc, Cuernavaca in 1971. In 2013, he was invited to contribute his Tablas series, which employs a Huichol yarn-painting technique, to the Sharjah Biennial. The Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Mexico honored the artist with a retrospective exhibition in 2023 which spanned his practice from painting to urban-scale projects. The following year, his work was featured in Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th edition of The International Art Exhibition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.

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  • Exhibitions
    • Eduardo Terrazas

      Eduardo Terrazas

      Encounters 18 July - 23 August 2024 London
      Coinciding with the Venice Biennale, Eduardo Terrazas’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery will feature new, never-before-seen large-scale geometric abstractions, alongside an arrangement of twelve works on paper.
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    • Eduardo Terrazas

      Eduardo Terrazas

      Cosmic Variations 4 November - 4 December 2021 New York
      Timothy Taylor is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new abstract works by the Mexican artist Eduardo Terrazas (b. 1936, Guadalajara, Mexico) at the New York gallery, his first New York exhibition in three years. The exhibition will consist of work from his longest-running and most significant series, Possibilities of a Structure (subseries Cosmos), and a new series entitled Cosmic Variations, in which Terrazas expands his vision of the universe through striking new circular, rectangular and diamond-shaped canvas formations. In a departure from his previous work, Terrazas’ most recent series is invigorated by new geometric tensions: Terrazas has designed his signature overlapping planar designs across all four walls of the gallery space, evoking the global vastness of the systems linking across the cosmos.
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    • ILACIONES

      ILACIONES

      6 June - 26 July 2019 New York
      Jorge Eielson, Luis Flores, Engel Leonardo, Gerd Leufert, Claudia Martínez Garay, Joiri Minaya, Solange Pessoa, Claudia Peña Salinas and Eduardo Terrazas.
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    • Eduardo Terrazas

      Eduardo Terrazas

      Cosmos within a cosmos 22 February - 21 April 2018 New York
      Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce Cosmos within a cosmos, an exhibition of new work by Eduardo Terrazas. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first solo exhibition in New York since 1974.
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    • Architecture of Color

      Architecture of Color

      The Legacy of Luis Barragán 23 September - 19 November 2016 New York
      Luis Barragán (1902-1988) was one of the greatest second-generation modernists, and along with Oscar Niemeyer, the most important 20th century architect to emerge from Latin America.

      Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán will explore Barragán’s architectural practice, his spiritual sense of aesthetics, and his unique use of color. The exhibition will also celebrate his legacy through the artworks of his contemporaries, those influenced by him, and those with whom he shares a visual and deeper synergy. This is the first exhibition of Barragán’s work in New York since his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976.
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    • Eduardo Terrazas

      Eduardo Terrazas

      4 September - 3 October 2015 London
      Timothy Taylor is proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by acclaimed Mexican artist Eduardo Terrazas.
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  • Institutional

    • Eduardo Terrazas in Football City, Art Untitled., Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
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      Eduardo Terrazas in Football City, Art Untitled.

      Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK 4 July – 24 August 2025
      Football City, Art United. is an ambitious group exhibition for MIF25, presenting brand-new artworks created by 11 legendary footballers and 11 contemporary artists. Together, they explore what happens when two...
    • Eduardo Terrazas: That Which Binds Us, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
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      Eduardo Terrazas: That Which Binds Us

      Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York 9 November 2024 – 12 May 2025
      With fabric, weaving, embroidery, and other related materials, the fifteen artists in That Which Binds Us reflect on what connects us and the experiences we share. This exhibition gestures towards...
    • Eduardo Terrazas: When the World Is Watching, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
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      Eduardo Terrazas: When the World Is Watching

      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 17 August 2024 – 4 May 2025
      Major international competitions where athletes compete as members of a national team are highly anticipated and widely watched media events. Such tournaments find participants facing their fiercest competitors, and often...
    • Eduardo Terrazas: Equilibrio Múltiple, Obras / Proyectos 1968–2023, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
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      Eduardo Terrazas: Equilibrio Múltiple, Obras / Proyectos 1968–2023

      Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico 26 June – 3 November 2024
      The largest retrospective of Eduardo Terrazas's work will open in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, showcasing more than 50 years of his practice. This travelling exhibition...
    • Eduardo Terrazas: Cosmos, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas: Cosmos

      Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, Mexico 15 June – 25 August 2019
      In the COSMOS of Eduardo Terrazas several times coexist simultaneously: the westernized and the non-westernized; the fast and the slow; the relationship with the environment and the relationship with oneself....
    • Eduardo Terrazas in Abstracción textil, Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia
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      Eduardo Terrazas in Abstracción textil

      Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia 19 April – 27 June 2018
      Textile Abstraction puts special emphasis on the work of artists from Latin America, in part because of the location of the exhibition in Colombia, but more broadly due to the...
    • Eduardo Terrazas in Saber Acomodar, Art and Workshops of Jalisco 1915-Now, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas in Saber Acomodar, Art and Workshops of Jalisco 1915-Now

      Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 17 March – 30 June 2018
      SABER ACOMODAR: Art and Workshops of Jalisco 1915-Now presents an investigation of the work carried out in studios and artisanal workshops in Jalisco, Mexico. Focusing on the last 100 years...
    • Eduardo Terrazas: Lecturas de un territorio fracturado, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
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      Eduardo Terrazas: Lecturas de un territorio fracturado

      Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico 22 July – 16 October 2017
      Lecturas de un territorio fracturado (Readings of a fractured territory) proposes the revision of several artistic arguments that operate, on the one hand, from a reflection on the ideals of...
    • Eduardo Terrazas in Welcome Too Late, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas in Welcome Too Late

      Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 18 March – 28 May 2017
      When everything from climate to technology is changing at accelerating pace, it’s increasingly difficult to keep up. The future undercuts the present and the present recedes into the past at...
  • Press
    • In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas

      Apollo Magazine, 24 July 2024
    • Eduard Terrazas: 5 of the Most Memorable Artist-Designed Olympics Posters

      Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artnet, 24 July 2024
    • Eduardo Terrazas – México 68: una imagen moderna para la ciudad milenaria

      Pedro Rodríguez, Architectural Digest México, 24 July 2024
    • Eduardo Terrazas: Artists announced for Venice Biennale 2024

      Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, 31 January 2024
    • Eduardo Terrazas: 'A call to action': 2024 Venice Biennale to feature more than 300 artists with focus on Indigenous and queer figures

      Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, 31 January 2024
    • Barragán in context: the late architect's work inaugurates Timothy Taylor's New York space

      Tiffany Jow, Wallpaper, 29 September 2016
  • News

    • In Conversation: Eduardo Terrazas with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Marcus du Sautoy, Timothy Taylor, London
      News

      In Conversation: Eduardo Terrazas with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Marcus du Sautoy

      Timothy Taylor, London Thursday 18 July, 6:30pm
      On the occasion of Eduardo Terrazas’s upcoming solo exhibition in London, the artist will be in conversation with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy about his recent...
    • Eduardo Terrazas in The International Art Exhibition by La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas in The International Art Exhibition by La Biennale di Venezia

      Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere 20 April – 24 November 2024
      Eduardo Terrazas will be participating in the 60th edition of The International Art Exhibition, organised by La Biennale di Venezia and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Titled “Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners...
    • Eduardo Terrazas in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere

      60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 20 April – 24 November 2024
      Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere , the title of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, is drawn from a series of works started in 2004 by...
    • In Conversation | Eduardo Terrazas, EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago
      News

      In Conversation | Eduardo Terrazas

      EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago 22 September 2019, 2:00 — 3:00pm
      Eduardo Terrazas will be in conversation at the 2019 edition of EXPO Chicago. Highlights for the Saturday and Sunday /Dialogues program include a panel with Prospect.5 curators Grace Deveney, Naima...
    • Eduardo Terrazas & Timothy Taylor in CDMX
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas & Timothy Taylor in CDMX

      21 February 2018
      A film by Branding Latin America documenting their studio visit with Eduardo Terrazas and Tim Taylor in Mexico City, February 2018.
    • Eduardo Terrazas in Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine!, City Hall, London
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas in Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine!

      City Hall, London 7 October 2017, 10am—10pm
      The 2017 Marathon brings together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, machines, trans-humanism...
    • Eduardo Terrazas at Timothy Taylor, Timothy Taylor, London
      News

      Eduardo Terrazas at Timothy Taylor

      Timothy Taylor, London 4 September – 3 October 2015
  • Publications
    • Eduardo Terrazas

      Eduardo Terrazas

      Cosmos 2022
      Hardcover, 336 pages
      Publisher: Hirmer
      ISBN: 978-3777439181
      Dimensions: 28 x 28 cm
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