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Fritzia Irízar
Fritzia Irízar (Bron 1977, Culiacan, Mexico) is a Mexican-born conceptual artist. She is well known for using metals and materials showcasing the value of economic and political issues that communities face day after day. Irízar has an interest in geological objects of mythical and economic value which is seen in her art work. Her interest stems from the political and economical system that are created by those in power.

Early Life and Education
Irízar was born in 1977 Culiacan, Mexico. She went to "La Esmeralda" (Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado) in Mexico City where she studied Fine Arts. In 2011 she part took in the Viewpoint, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. A year later she participated in Primer acto, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo and El incesante ciclo entre idea y acción, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. She also joined the 9th Bienal do Mercosul in 2013.

Work
Irízar's art work consists in examining the correlation between raw minerals and communities by which currency is constructed and reveal the sociocultural myths encompassing the production of value. Many of her projects consists of diamonds and salt with the purpose of demonstrating the historical value these two hold in terms of currency; depicting value as a subject that derives from beliefs and fantasies. She communicates the relationship between objects and the development of concepts by which people generate tying them together to state their impacts. Her work goes on to recognizes how both science and history are almost fiction, fictions that people go on to follow. She believes that process in her work is the main majority of her project. At times she prefers to hide the process to make her audience more present so they can imagine if for themselves. She enjoys using veracity or legal documentation, such as notarial lawyer document, certificates as another mechanism of expression.

In 2008, Irízar published Untitled (4.81 mm x 2.95 mm, 0.43 ct, VS2 G), where she held a small diamond in between her index finger and thrum throughout her daily activities for 24 hours. She stated: "I nervously held a costly diamond between my fingers. In the afternoon, the 4.88 mm of carbon crystal made me stare at my hand in puzzlement. Hours later, I was ready to drop this nameless thing, bored even by its brilliance." Her purpose is to demonstrate the value and importance that is put in such a tiny mine, to show how people believe such a tiny thing can bring them happiness. She connects this idea to to the communities that have suffered in order to provide such a tiny object that being happiness to others. Her end goal is for people to see the connection between the two so they can get rid of such desires and set themselves free.

More present art work of Irízar would be Untitled, 1937-2017 where she describes the parallels between the War of Independence in the Nineteenth Century and the Revolution of the early Twentieth Century. The purpose is to make connections between violence, economics, and politics that she features in he art piece. She first came up with this idea when she burned one hundred U.S. dollar bills and used the ashes to fabricate a pencil that was used to write seven poems about money by her poem collaborators (Óscar Paul Castro, Eduardo Ruiz, Alejandro Lee, Leonardo González, and Francisco Alcaraz). Irízar's art work displayed a life-size replica of Picasso's Guernica, a series of cannons that fired photographs of the war in Aleppo that were chopped into confetti. Her purpose this piece is to emphasize the violence and the gruesome history in black and white, to cover real stories of suffrage and violence.

Fritzia Irízar states: "The main lines of investigation on a thematic level in my work, whether they are chosen from immediate or recent political or social events or from interest I have about scientific issues or about the involvement of chance in science. All these thematic issues have a higher objective that necessarily try to describe to me or clarify for me the way in which individuals and the societies execute schemes of value over the things and the situations."

Art Collections

 * Tragamonedas (2002)
 * Pared (2004)
 * Robo hormiga (2004)
 * Polvo (2005)
 * Sobre el desgaste (2005)
 * Olor a nuevo (2006)
 * Sobre el esfuerzo (2006) S.I.N. 2007
 * Cápsula del tiempo 2007
 * Sin título (4.81 mm x 2.95 mm, 0.43 ct, VS2, G) (2008)
 * Ilusión y decepción I y II (2008)
 * Fe de azar (2010)
 * Fuerza bruta (2010)
 * Colectividad y selectividad (2011)
 * Tótem II (2011)
 * Naturaleza de imitación (2012)
 * Suerte para todos (2011-2012)
 * Meteorito (2012)
 * Prospección al nuevo territorio (2013)
 * Retrato de la burguesía (2014)
 * La desaparición del símbolo (2015)
 * Camaleón blanco (2015)
 * Desde Cleopatra (2016)
 * ¿Cómo te voy a olvidar? (2016)
 * Greening Gold (2016)
 * La historia del humo (2017)
 * Injerto madre perla (2015-2018)
 * Obsolescencia programada (2018)
 * Proyecto Cuatro Espejos I (2018)
 * Proyecto Cuatro Espejos II (2018)
 * Sin aliento (2019) Injerto humano (2019)
 * Makech (2019)
 * Estudios sobre el paisaje (2021)
 * Cuatro espejos IV (2022)
 * Natura non facit saltus (2022) Fritzia Irizar: la vendedora de dineroEdgar Amador Arte y capital Ana Patto

Past Art Shows

 * 2020 

NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ at ZⓈONAMACO 2020, NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ


 * 2019

NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ at ARCOmadrid 2019, NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ


 * 2018

Arredondo \ Arozarena at Material Art Fair 2018, Arredondo \ Arozarena

NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ at ZⓈONAMACO 2018, NF/ NIEVES FERNANDEZ


 * 2017

Arredondo \ Arozarena at ARCOmadrid 2017, Arredondo \ Arozarena

Arredondo \ Arozarena at ZⓢONAMACO 2017, Arredondo \ Arozarena


 * 2016

Arredondo \ Arozarena at ARTBO 2016, Arredondo \ Arozarena

Arredondo \ Arozarena at Zsona MACO 2016, Arredondo \ Arozarena


 * 2015

Arredondo \ Arozarena at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2015, Arredondo \ Arozarena

Arredondo \ Arozarena at ARTBO 2015, Arredondo \ Arozarena

talcual at SP-Arte 2015, Arredondo \ Arozarena

talcual at Zona MACO 2015, Arredondo \ Arozarena


 * 2014

talcual at Zona MACO 2014, Arredondo \ Arozarena