Timothy Taylor gallery brings Mexican colour to ARCOmadrid

ARCOmadrid returns with a presentation dedicated to Eduardo Terrazas with new, recent, and historical works from his Possibilities of a Structure series.

Image shows geometric artwork by Eduardo Terrazas 1.1.676 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche wax Framed: 35 ⅜ x 35 ⅜ x 1 ⅜ in. (90 x 90 x 3.5 cm)

Crisp, high-altitude air, vivid evening light, and the offchance of coinciding with the early season blossom extravaganza at the Retiro’s rose garden — March is a good month to be in Madrid.

Another excuse: the ARCOmadrid art festival. To which, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce its return with a presentation dedicated to Mexican artist and architect Eduardo Terrazas. Spanning from 1974 to the present, the selection of works foregrounds Terrazas’s dynamic intersection of Modernist geometric abstraction with Mexican folk techniques, showcasing his nearly six-decade exploration of the infinite.

Image shows colourful geometric artwork by Eduardo Terrazas 1.1.674 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche wax Framed: 23 ⅝ x 23 ⅝ x 1 ⅜ in. (60 x 60 x 3.5 cm) — Eduardo Terrazas, 1.1.674, 2024 Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche wax Framed: 23 ⅝ x 23 ⅝ x 1 ⅜ in. (60 x 60 x 3.5 cm)

Six recent works feature Terrazas’s signature method, which reconceives a yarn painting technique practised by the indigenous Huichol people of Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. The artist presses wool yarn into beeswax that has been layered on wooden boards, creating meticulous designs that have a vivid tactile quality. The yarn takes on a sculptural dimension, engaging light in a way that brings a liveliness to the surface of these kaleidoscopic works.

In 2024, the artist returned to oil on canvas for the first time in more than five decades. Three paintings from this remarkable series are on view in the booth; each features a distinct composition based on a simple grid that evokes networks, neighbourhoods, and infrastructure. In addition, two vibrant works on paper from 1974 reveal the artist’s work at this early moment in his exploration of the ongoing Possibilities of a Structure series.

Alongside this focused presentation, Timothy Taylor’s booth at ARCOmadrid will feature new and recent works by gallery artists, many of whom have created works specifically for the fair, including Daniel Crews-Chubb, Armen Eloyan, Alex Katz, Jonathan Lasker, Eddie Martinez, Annie Morris, Michel Pérez Pollo, Paul Anthony Smith, and Alice Tippit. These works will be presented in conversation with an early painting from Jorge Eielson’s Quipus series (1963–2006).