Mónica Fierro
Bio
First stimuli in art in primary school; classical dances and plastic arts. In 1980, she moved to Buenos Aires to study ballet.
From 1992 to 1999 in Holland and England, she attended Arts & Crafts workshops. In Buenos Aires, she studied with Cristina Dartiguelongue, Tana Sachs, Marian Cvik, Osvaldo Decastelli.
Currently: Workshop of artistic practices ISO, directed by Marcolina Dipierro and Cecilia Ferrari.
She has won several awards, the First Prize at the Small Format Salon in MUMBAT and the First Prize Acquisition Biennial Textile, among others. She participated in national and international exhibitions such as MAPA and London Art Fair, among others.
Statement
Undo-redo-undo-redo is not only a way of expressing contemporary art but probably the foundation of certain existences.
To revisit old and, according to common sense, unusable books, to see them again, to touch them again, means to give them a meaning, a use.
In this series, I takes books from Gothic cathedrals and hotels in Paris (circa 1890/1920). I trim its sheets with scissors, sometimes I use the colored pages and others I leave the white parts with its fungal spots and the passage of time.
The material I use is always the paper of books already discarded.
Trimmed paper creating new readings maybe.
Volume and movement always present in my works.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
