Fina Miralles, National Prize for Plastic Arts 2025 | Culture | EUROtoday

Fina Miralles has been awarded the 2025 National Plastic Arts Award, on the proposal of the jury gathered on Monday. The award, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.

The jury has highlighted the artist for “her pioneer role since the seventies in the framework of feminism and early environmental positions, claiming the relationship of the human being with nature.”

Life and Fine Miralles (Sabadell, 75 years) addresses these points similar to feminism, nature, energy, artwork, by means of actions performic all the time starring herself, with the assistance of images, portray and video and collage. One of the very best examples of this legacy is the piece Zoo photographs, The images that got here out of their confinement for 3 days in a cage. It was the 12 months 1974 and the artist obtained with a canine, a lamb, a cat and a frog (every in her cage) within the set up he created for the Vinçon room, at the moment, one of many few areas in Barcelona that provided modern artwork.

The work was accomplished with a frieze of images of the Barcelona Zoo surrounding the room. “I wanted to protest what people saw normal, but it seemed like a barbarity; that the animals were in cages in poor condition. I suppose it will have changed. Have you gone recently,” he defined in an interview within the nation, in 2020, the 12 months wherein the Macba devoted the nice retrospective Fina Miralles. I’m all that I’ve been.

By then he had already moved to Cadaqués, though his formation started in Barcelona, ​​to later spend lengthy seasons in Latin America, France and Italy.

His creative follow is often linked to land artwork and the relations between physique and nature. Miralles diluted the boundaries between tendencies and labels to such an extent that in 1973 it grew to become a WOMAN-ANBOL when he planted in the midst of the sphere and buried his legs on earth.

Therefore, the jury has identified that “his work has a very powerful iconicity that prolongs its validity until now. Carry out an acute critical reflection of power in all its aspects. In recent years he has made a deep textual reflection in which he addresses the human experience adopting a holistic perspective.”

Miralles had already made clear his break with conventional artwork along with his first work: Still life (1972) wherein he prepares an unstructured panorama wherein he locations on a desk shells, water, grass, stones, leaves, earth and algae that the viewer has to visualise because the nonetheless lodge of an image.

From the Eighties, discover the matrician by means of the usage of portray and drawing. Projects like Double (1979-1981) exhibits the symbiosis between performative and pictorial follow. A path that may lead you to a progressively extra introspective creation.

With the change of the century it retires to Cadaqués, the place it’ll proceed engaged on these often known as Photoation. Among its most related exhibitions and interventions stand out Of the life to life (Sabadell Museum, 2001), La BELIEVE of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (2014) Natural Naturals 1973-2016 (National Archaeological Museum, 2016). His total file was deposited years in the past on the Sabadell Museum of Art.