Installation view at L’École des Beaux-Arts, Maison Régionale de l’Architecture, Nantes, France, 2022.

The project funded by Valencia City Council and carried out in the ‘Casa de Velazquez’, in Madrid, is part of the series ‘Copper Skin’, an autobiographical series that investigates how the copper metal, during its oxidation process, produces a unique green on its surface and this results in a form of epidermis of the metal. This has for the artist a very poetic connotation, a kind of Phoenix revival: instead of evoking deterioration and decay, rust becomes beauty for the eye, this metaphor responds to a very positive personal moment in which the artist finds herself.

The ‘OXIDE’ series comprises several prints using the traditional ‘Collagraph’ additive stamping technique on a 76 x 107 x 3.5 cm. engraving paper attached to an 88 x 119 cm ‘conservation museum’ mat.

Print run of 6 copies of each engraving plus some ‘Artist’s proofs’. The copies are signed, numbered, and dated.

Oxide III, 2021, Collagraph on paper and acrylic, ed.3/6 Paper: 76 x 107 x 3.5 cm. | 30 X 42 X 1.3 in. in a mount board of 88 x 119 cm. | 34.64 X 46.85 in.
Oxide IV, 2021, Collagraph on paper and acrylic, ed.3/6 Paper: 76 x 107 x 3.5 cm. | 30 X 42 X 1.3 in. in a mount board of 88 x 119 cm. | 34.64 X 46.85 in.
Oxide I, 2021, Collagraph on paper and acrylic, ed.4/6 Paper: 76 x 107 x 3.5 cm. | 30 X 42 X 1.3 in. in a mount board of 88 x 119 cm. | 34.64 X 46.85 in.
Oxide II, 2021, Collagraph on paper and acrylic, ed.6/6 Paper: 76 x 107 x 3.5 cm. | 30 X 42 X 1.3 in. in a mount board of 88 x 119 cm. | 34.64 X 46.85 in.

Making process of Oxides at Casa De Velazquez in Madrid. Spain