Medal - 2009 TFP Award; Eva Lootz

Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1940, Eva Lootz has lived and worked in Madrid since 1965. In her hometown, she studied Fine Arts, Musicology, Filmmaking, and Philosophy, although her artistic career and development have developed primarily in Spain, where she is a national. Eva Lootz's work is characterized by a central concern that explores the interweaving of matter and language from different angles.

After beginnings that reveal an unequivocal desire to transgress the historical boundaries of art by transforming the work into a trace of a process, a period from which her plates of ephemeral materials such as cotton, earth, wadding, paraffin-coated seeds, and her works with binding liquids such as sealing wax, synthetic glues, and wax originate, Lootz embarks on a broad and exhaustive reflection that seeks to trace back to the origin of the devaluation of matter in relation to the idea, a devaluation that in most cultures runs parallel to the degradation of the value placed on women. In the course of these reflections, she studies the processes of extraction and processing of minerals and raw materials, the routes of exchange, the sociocultural repercussions, and the traces in the landscape and in the language.

Best known for her sculptures, Eva Lootz has always worked and experimented with different visual languages, such as printmaking, photography, sound, video, and installations. Her work emphasizes the importance of drawing, which, like notebooks, reflects her ideas and concerns.

Her work is represented in numerous private collections and public institutions, both national and international, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, ​​the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca, and The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. In 1994, the Ministry of Culture awarded her the National Prize for Fine Arts. The Royal Mint Foundation recognized her professional and personal career with the 2009 Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize.