Soledad Sevilla

Soledad Sevilla. Rhythms, Grids, Variables accompanies the same-titled exhibition to chronologically survey the artist’s career, with the emphasis placed on certain repeated patterns, for instance the module, the line and the grid. The works gathered in the publication render an account of the coherence and circularity in the development of Sevilla’s oeuvre, from her beginnings at the University of Madrid’s Computing Centre to her most recent work, such as the series in homage to Eusebio Sempere, both a friend and reference point.  

The essays reflect on the artist’s work from different viewpoints, situating her geometric abstraction within the national and international context of the 1960s and 1970s, and underscoring the continual mutation of her creative sphere and the poetic and emotional nature of her output. Isabel Tejeda, the show’s curator, foregrounds the weight of beauty and intuition in her practice, stressing the capacity of her installations to confront us with “liminality and the incomprehensible”. The artist’s distinctive voice finds expression in fragments of a text originally published in 1995, while the architect Antonio Cayuelas writes about the studio he built for Sevilla in La Vega de Granada, a space which preserves the memory of the area’s agricultural architects and pays homage to her work through light, variations and movement.