This exhibition at the San Fernando Fine Arts Museum honors Elena Jiménez, recipient of the prestigious National Graphic Arts Award. It showcases her remarkable four-decade career in printmaking and her groundbreaking exploration of expanded graphic arts. Visitors can delve into her multidisciplinary approach, seeing how she pushes the boundaries of image generation and challenges traditional notions of reproduction and seriality through her powerful works.
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This exhibition celebrates Elena Jiménez, the recipient of the National Graphic Arts Award, recognizing her extensive four-decade career in printmaking. The show highlights her innovative approach to multiple image generation and her exploration of the boundaries of expanded graphic arts.
Elena Jiménez, born in Alicante in 1965, is celebrated with this exhibition upon receiving the National Graphic Arts Award, a prestigious recognition for her continuous practice spanning over four decades in the field of multiple image generation systems and processes. The National Engraving Award, established by the National Calcography in 1993, has become Spain's foremost graphic art accolade. This exhibition, co-organized by the National Calcography of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Madrid City Council's Department of Culture, Tourism, and Sport, delves into Jiménez's artistic journey. An artist, educator, and researcher, Jiménez has worked across various media including drawing, photography, ceramics, and installation, but graphic art remains the most consistent and defining aspect of her creative output. Her significant contributions lie in exploring the limits of printed images within three-dimensional installations of expanded graphics, and in investigating alternative processual, objectual, and conceptual parameters in printmaking. Her work often references the body through comparisons related to fragility, tenacity, plasticity, or mechanical resistance, mapping physical symptoms and diagnoses. Jiménez's practice challenges obsolete social norms and imposed behavioral habits, reflecting on representation and identity. She employs a multidisciplinary approach to rethink the boundaries of reproduction and seriality, questioning the notion of the multiple as an inherent quality of graphic categories. Her strategy of straining the genre's specificity is evident in both urban and exhibition space initiatives. Through appropriations, resignifications, layered semantic structuring, and shifts between abstraction and figuration, she invites active viewer participation in meaning-making, exploring concepts of transience, and the impossibility of finite representation. Her work uses these intellectual devices to present a metaphor for physical and cultural violence while striving to create situations capable of altering reality.
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