Annette Turrillo at the Frost Art Museum

Venezuelan artist Annette Turrillo will present in January at the Frost Art Museum her multimedia installation entitled Un Pensamiento para el Planeta (A Thought for the Planet). This project continues the line of work that the artist presented in 2010 at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid. It is an installation that grows with each presentation, as the exhibition space becomes the container and support of the work: paintings, objects, projected maps, reflections, and sounds, entice viewers to meditate on issues that concern them, like the destruction of the planet's ecology. The exhibition space then becomes a stage that contains multiple messages on the subject while also being the entire space of the work. The messages received in the plastic containers placed on the floor during the experience in Madrid-along with others sent through the Web-were recycled by the artist for this occasion. The curatorial line that brings together the paintings on the wall for this Miami edition is elaborated with these messages that turn the work into a channel of multiple interlocutors. It is a participatory proposal in which the public plays an active role. It long-term purpose is to achieve a work that functions as a vehicle for transformation. On the other hand, the multisensorial nature of this project invites viewers to rediscover themselves and their thought, as it induces to meditate on the state of the world. Our planet already undergoes on its own a series of natural processes of wear and transformation. But this is made worse by the continuous and destructive actions of human beings that result in climate change, cataclysms, and excessive contamination. This complex situation is approached in the same sensible and balanced manner that Turrillo has used in the rest of her work. Beyond any aesthetic and symbolic values, her paintings provoke this state of the spirit. In this installation, the paintings symbolize the four seasons differentiated by chromatic changes. Her faces reflect our internal world. They are the Yin and Yang as they also function as pendulums that outline time and that, in between oscillations and internal debates, point to the urgency of finding equilibrium.