Por Redaccion The painter Teresa Muñiz brings her first individual exhibition in eleven years to the CMAE
09 Apr. 2025
The Municipal Center for Art and Exhibitions (CMAE) in Avilés will host the most recent creation of the painter Teresa Muñiz (Madrid, 1942), originally from Asturias, under the curatorship of Luis Feás Costilla. Teresa Muñiz, who has not had an individual exhibition for more than a decade, presents ‘Nido-Ritual’, where she aims to move towards specific projects, transcending her previous pictorial series and expanding into spatial and installation art.
According to the exhibition curator, the project stems from reflections on the constructive processes found in nature, particularly in the animal kingdom among insects and birds. These creatures gather all kinds of materials to build their nests, following an instinctive ritual that the painter recreates with the precision of ink or graphite drawings made over the past two years.
On top of these drawings, she overlays transparent color stains, creating layers that reveal without concealing, as light as a flight. Most of the works in this series are done on paper, with exquisite chromatic shapes floating without completely filling the space, leaving wide white spaces. Another significant innovation is the widespread use of collage, enhancing the analogy with the animals’ construction system and reinforcing the spatial depth of the compositions, totaling thirty pieces.
Several of these collages incorporate photographs taken by the artist during her continuous observation of nature, serving as a reference model for her increasingly integrated conceptual framework, celebrating the harmony of the earth and the world in a general chant. Some of these photos are projected sequentially in the gallery for a better understanding of the proposal. The rest are watercolors, temperas, and acrylics on canvas.
The exhibition also includes a brief retrospective of a dozen canvases and papers created over the past twenty years. These rarely seen series explore affinities, intuitions, gardens, the birth of the cosmos, and dreamt bread, demonstrating that the veteran artist’s recent work is not born out of nothing but is part of a continually regenerating cycle.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, April 11th, at 7:00 p.m. It will be open to the public at the CMAE (Llano Ponte, 49), which is introducing a new morning opening schedule on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in addition to the regular afternoon opening hours from Thursday to Sunday, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
About Teresa Muñiz
Niece of musician Ángel Muñiz Toca, Teresa Muñiz has always been connected to Asturias, where she has family and spent her early summers in Piedras Blancas (Castrillón). She studied at the School of Fine Arts in San Fernando, where she obtained her degree in 1969, enabling her to establish her own Studio of Plastic Arts in 1971.
Subsequently, she pursued studies in woodcut, etching, and experimental techniques in Italy. Since then, she has alternated between painting and printmaking, experimenting with various techniques ranging from aquatints, etchings, sugar etching, and acrylic prints on methacrylate to color woodcuts.
Since her first exhibition at the Benedet gallery in Oviedo in 1978, Teresa Muñiz has showcased her work individually in places like Cuenca, El Escorial, Valladolid, Segovia, Puerto de Santa María, Madrid, and Aranda de Duero.
She has not exhibited in Avilés since 1992 when she presented her work at the Municipal House of Culture. Her most recent exhibition was held at the European Institute of Design in Madrid in 2014, coinciding with the release of the book ‘Pan soñado’, a result of her collaboration with journalist Pepe Nevado.
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