Ciudad de hierro (2021) Textile Art by Anna Carmona

Anna Carmona is an artist born in Girona, Spain, with international projection. During her childhood she has been accompanied by the life stories of her grandmother, a worker in the textile factories of Sallent and Artés, as well as fabrics, threads, sewing machines and a lot of creativity on the part of her dressmaker mother. A past that marks him and discovers an art with many possibilities.

He began studies in furniture restoration and polychromy and continued with forays into the world of carpentry, carving and restoration techniques. He progressively trained and experimented in other artistic disciplines such as metal sheet furniture design and later entered artistic textile design.

He applied all this knowledge and valued it through weaving and experiments by combining the techniques learned with different materials and gives shape to his own language with which he grows as an artist and as a person, inspired by works by artists such as Olga de Amaral, Jagoda Buić, Josep Grau-Garriga and Ricardo Bofill. Eclecticism and decomposition, experimentation and luxury, constant transformation and family heritage linked to weaving.

It interweaves fabrics treated with pigments, stuccos or gold leaf, all traditional materials used worldwide since ancient times, with other materials. modern and sustainable. And the personal interest and firm will to adapt artistic practice to a more sustainable model of life can be seen in his later works, introducing reused materials, such as leather and quality fabrics, which come from surpluses and waste from different sources. design and fashion sectors. And it also seeks to give prominence to wool for all its excellent properties and artistic potential.

Its series are inspired by landscapes, cities, architecture and the life history that accompany it. Memories of youth, vacations, emotions, shared landscapes, the sea, terraces, stone walls, vegetation... But also the city, the music, the night, its people and cultural activities. His work is full of symbolism, folds, contours, cracks, seams and mixtures, they evoke those territories and lived experiences and invites us to create our own inner landscape. And in his later series “Nature” he aims to give value to the elements of nature and elevate them to works of art in recognition of their beauty and everything they contribute to us in gratitude and importance to their existence and preservation.

At the same time, his creations seek to influence the viewer's emotions through the different senses. Monochromatic creations, different tactile textures, geometric, architectural or organic shapes, some of them mobile that can be varied at will. Artistic creations that go beyond the conceptual and technical and are also characterized by being sensory works.

• Nationality: SPAIN
• Date of birth : 1973
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• Groups: Contemporary Spanish Artists