Lourdes Figuera Vidal
A MORSEL OF MOONS
A Morsel of Moons On turning over a copper etching plate, a violet-glowing full moon set against a stormy sky came to life. A dark and unsettling moon. Taken aback, I observed her. And from that point, full moons, new moons, waning moons started to structure my days at the workshop. Orb-shaped aspirations and colour filled the seasons as new spaces were created, spaces that were never enough to portray the full extent of her restless nature. You made me look to the sky, you made me your moon, the sea that replicates you, the puddles of water on rainy days that simultaneously multiply your body as misty halos. And you made me think of that conviction held by Angolan bushmen, that all water comes from the moon and that every being must drink lunar water, sucking the dew from the bushes and grasses in the morning and evening, as a kind of sacred invocation to the rain. To be working on a series of etchings on Shame and then, driven purely by instinct, turn over the etching plate held in my hands and dare to print its underside could be seen as a contradiction... or not. From the very first print there were moons falling from the sky, multiplying and eclipsing each other. They appeared spontaneously, through no effort of my own. Then over time and in the pleasure of their company, I deliberately sought them out. The prints I present belong to the series called Un Mos de Llunes, “A Morsel of Moons”. Made by engraving, they are mainly etchings and were developed at the Taller Barbarà in Barcelona during 2019/2020.
Lourdes Figuera Vidal
Exhibition video.
Title:
A bite of moons I
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
89 X 140 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of moons II
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
83 X 124 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of blue moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
81.5 X 127 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of wintry moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
84 X 124 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of moons III
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
69 X 98.5 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of moons IV
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
69 X 97.5 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of white and mauve moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
69 X 97.5 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of burgundy moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
69 X 98.5 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of moons pink Mexico.
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
120 X 80 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of rusty moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
125 X 92 cm
Year: 2019
Title:
A bite of silver moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
84.5 X 140 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of white moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
85 X 124 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of orange moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
78.5 X 59.5 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of ferrous moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
140 X 93.5 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of pink moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
84 X 138 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of moons grey
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
91 X 110 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of moons V
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
90 X 125 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of red and black moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
70 X 99 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of red and maroon moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
70 X 82 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of blue and ferrous moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
90 X 70 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of overlapping moons.
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
125 X 85 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of moons IV
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
140 X 84 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
A bite of green shadow moons
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
99 X 70 cm
Year: 2020
Title:
Between clouds
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
113 cm X 76 cm
Year: 2021
Title:
Broken moon
Technique:
Aquatint and china collé.
Size:
125 X 83 cm
Year: 2022
Title:
Moon with violet and black.
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
88,5 X 124,5 cm
Year: 2022
Title:
Light moon
Technique:
Aquatint
Size:
84,5 X 140 cm
Year: 2021