Lucia Retamar

Lucia Retamar is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist specialized in drawing, with a recent foray into textile art. Her work addresses issues related to emotions, with an emphasis on the psychological aspects and consequences of anxiety, female condition and migration, themes that are part of her story. Lucia uses drawing and textiles as a medium within her experimental processes and is interested in new methodologies and sociologies of the processes by which the image is arrived at, such as drawing with her eyes closed, letting her hand remember and solve alone, without the help of sight.

She also uses illustration as a medium in her artistic processes, often collaborating with different writers and being inspired by her texts to generate her own interpretations. In addition, she is a fashion designer so the new textile research has opened a new field of exploration in an area that is well known such as fabric and pattern making, from a different vision such as embroidery combined with acrylic paint on canvas, scraps and clothing.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, such as in Peru (Galería Itinerant María, Lima), Argentina (Galería Essa, Córdoba), Algeria (Le petit Lecteur, Oran) and Austria (Pädagogische Hoch-schule ...

2022- on going Fine Arts, UB, Spain.
2016- 2017 Graphic Design, Tadel, Spain.
2014- 2016 Illustration, Escola de la Dona, Spain.
2012- 2013 Fashion Design, Kandinsky Center, Argentina.
2004- 2008 Fine Arts, Universidad Nacional of Cordoba, Argentina.

2021 “Traces on the retina”. Solo exhibition, Cage Gallery. Barcelona, ​​Spain.

2020 “Tangent studio artists”. Collective exhibition. Tangents Projects. Barcelona, ​​Spain.

2019 “Fieras”. Individual exhibition.
Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz. Linz, Austria.

2018 “Coll 2”. Collective participation.
Sagrada Familia civic center. Barcelona, ​​Spain

2018 “Writing Portraits”. Collective participation Galeria Maria. Lima Peru.

2017 “Eyes wide close”. Art Lover Ground Gallery group exhibition. Barcelona, ​​Spain.

2014 “Envy”. Performance Dante's Inferno. Insectotropics Collective Fabra i Coats
Barcelona, ​​Spain.

2013 “Elephant skin”. Collective exhibition by Metaphora, Art Therapy School for Canvas Peace Project. Untitled Gallery. Barcelona, ​​Spain.