One of the few female and Spanish artists who has exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where part of her work is also part of the museum’s collection. She spent her childhood between León and Madrid, but moved to Barcelona permanently in 1960 where she studied Fine Arts at the Escuela Superior de San Jorge. After finishing her studies, she began to exhibit her work in Spain, but also outside of it. In 1980 she was selected by the international curator Margit Rowell to exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York, as part of the collective ‘New Images from Spain’. Two years later she began to teach at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona, until her retirement.
She is deservedly considered one of the masters of contemporary Spanish painting. Her artistic work includes a variety of expressive media (painting, drawing, engraving, ceramics, installations and interventions, among others). She is characterized by the use of everyday elements that she integrates into her works, composing a personal and powerful creative universe. The dreamlike and symbolic iconography contained in his creations stands out. He uses plastic resources of symbolism and mysticism to wander through his personal memory and touch the collective psyche through signs and symbols such as religious, popular or art history images, plant elements, flowers or animals.
The Fundació Suñol preserves three of his works: Pluma y reptil I (1978), Discurso sobre la realidad (1978) and Rostros entre carbón y tierra (1982). In 2022, at the Fundació Suñol, an interview with Gancedo was conducted by Alexia Medici on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Exterior/Interior’.
List of artworks
Pluma y reptil 1 , 1978
Discurso sobre la realidad , 1978
Restos entre carbón y tierra , 1982
Pluma y reptil 1 , 1978
Discurso sobre la realidad , 1978
Restos entre carbón y tierra , 1982
Exterior | Interior
Collective exhibition
The exhibition Exterior | Interior, an exhibition adaptation of the digital project It Started With Water, curated by Alexia Medici and presented in 2021 in online format on the...
Discourse about reality
Teresa Gancedo
L’artista explica que el procés artístic comença amb una fotografia trobada als mitjans, o pressa per ella mateixa. A continuació desenvolupa i interioritza la idea extreta del quadre i...
New Images from Spain
1980
Guggenheim Museum, New...
Dialogic visit
Exterior | Interior
On the occasion of the exhibition Exterior | Interior, the Fundació Suñol organizes a guided visit by the foundation's...
How to create a historical dissemination profile on social networks
Meeting with cultural disseminators
The activity seeeks to bring the keys to the disseminations of historical memory to those people interested in developing profil·le on social...
Art and històric disclosure
Conversation between Rubén Verdú and Agus Giralt
On the occasion of the closing of the exhibition Exterior | Interior we invited the artist Rubén Verdú and the historian and cultural disseminator Agus Giralt to talk about...
Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
José Luis Alexanco and Daniel Giralt-Miracle
José Luis Alexanco —artist and coorganizer of the exhibition— and Daniel Giralt-Miracle —art critic and historian— will lead a tour visit of Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 on Monday, February...
