This exhibition, organised by the Associació d’Amics del Jardí Botànic along with the Jardí Botànic de Barcelona, and with the collaboration of the Mexican Consulate, will be open until 30 November and may be visited from Monday to Friday, from 10 to 14 h.
The exhibition consists of six large-format artworks done in ink, and an animation screening. The works, designed specifically for the Jardí Botànic de Barcelona, depict the complex relationship between man and nature. In fact, the young Mexican artist is determined to rekindle man’s awareness of Nature: “I want my work to make people mindful. My aim is to create the awareness that we are all part of a whole, and that it is important to respect Nature”.
Tatiana Musi‘s artwork is a critique of the conditions imposed on Nature by man; a contemplative look at the relationship between man and plants. All summarised in the six large-format paintings on display here: two representing the flora on the periphery of Mexico City, in spaces as yet unexploited by man, and the rest depicting the growth of the plant Cypripedium, the Mexican orchid.
Besides these six paintings, the artist also presents an animated sequence representing the different stages from germination to fruiting of a coriander plant and a pea. The Mexican artist recorded the whole process in nearly 300 drawings, which she painted every day, showing the changes undergone by the plants. The drawings in this animation are done in cochineal, a pre-Hispanic pigment extracted from the blood of an insect. Musi took her inspiration for this exhibition from the Historical Botanical Garden’s vegetable garden project.
Biography
Tatiana Musi, Mexico DF, 1982.
Tatiana gained her Fine Arts degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work centres mainly on her relationship with plants, and she has a particular interest in memory.
She has had several solo exhibitions, such as the project “Diciembre a febrero” (December to February) for the Museo Clauselito in Mexico City, and “Mind Fills”, at the Cervantes Institute in New Delhi, India.
Her group exhibitions include, notably, “Moleskine Detour” in New York and Berlin; “DRAW”, curated by Miguel Calderón at Mexico City Museum; “Inner Geographies/Crossing Paths”, at the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo; HOW TO (skip a dead-end street), a project in parallel with the Istanbul Biennial, and “Nostalgia, Pride and Fire” at the BMB Gallery, Bombay, among others.
Besides working as an artist, she has also collaborated on projects curated by the Mexican Embassy in Tokyo and has founded the Yuatepec Gallery in Mexico City. She is at present participating in a group exhibition at the Yusto/Giner gallery in Marbella and is also working on a book to be published this year.