Rare earth elements 2017-2019

On the basis of the war, deeply linked to mineral colonization, Rare Earth Elements, has sought to expand the geopolitical reading on the subject and the problems derived from it - technology, economy and society - from a publication, an installation of the creative process, a pictorial polyptych and various works in drawing, printmaking, video and photography.

In 2010, the press began to talk about the so-called "war of the rare earths".

Rare Earths and lanthanides, have been extracted from the end of the 19th century. They belong to a large group of the periodic table of elements, which celebrates 150 years of history in 2019.

En la década de 1960 empezaron a aplicarse en tecnología puntera.

In the 1960's, they started being used for high technology.
• China, United States, India and Brazil, are major producers of rare earths.

China is now a key country in the production of the Rare Earths and its tight control has generated profound disagreements and conflicts - affection and disaffection - worldwide.

This project has been carried out thanks to the support of the Botín Santander Center (Production Grant) and the Geominer Museum, IGME, Instituto Geominero de España The development of the proposal concludes in the Vade Mecum: Quadra Minerale. Rare earths, other minerals and mining concepts. An approach to the elements and their technological uses in contemporary days.

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio-

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm,.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio- (Detalle).

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio- (Detalle)

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio- (Detalle)

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio- (Detalle)

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio-

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm,.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio-

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm,.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio-

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm,.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

TIERRAS RARAS

Políptico de emulsión fotosensible y pintura sobre papel, inspirado en las tierras raras y otros elementos –sujeción con imanes de neodimio-

12 piezas de 70 x 100 cm,.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

VITRINA Y METEORITO

Centro Botín, Santander

2018

MESA PROCESUAL

Colección de libros de artista, mapas y minerales.

Mesa de roble (3 metros de largo).

Préstamo del Museo Geominero de España IGME.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

MESA PROCESUAL

Colección de libros de artista, mapas y minerales.

Mesa de roble (3 metros de largo).

Préstamo del Museo Geominero de España IGME.

Centro Botín, Santander

2018-2019

METALES DE TRANSACCIÓN COMERCIAL

Metales de transacción comercial –aluminio, plata, cobre, plomo, mercurio (cinabrio) y oro-.

Piezas únicas.

Otros objetos desde la izquierda: lepidolita –litio-, tabla periódica de los elementos años 70, cobre de Marruecos, azufre de Bolivia.

Pintura sobre papel: cuadernos de cuentas comerciales Miquelrius pintados a mano hoja por hoja,

2018-2019

METALES DE TRANSACCIÓN COMERCIAL

Metales de transacción comercial –aluminio, plata, cobre, plomo, mercurio (cinabrio) y oro-.

Piezas únicas.

Otros objetos desde la izquierda: lepidolita –litio-, tabla periódica de los elementos años 70, cobre de Marruecos, azufre de Bolivia.

Pintura sobre papel: cuadernos de cuentas comerciales Miquelrius pintados a mano hoja por hoja,

2018-2019

METALES DE TRANSACCIÓN COMERCIAL

Metales de transacción comercial –aluminio, plata, cobre, plomo, mercurio (cinabrio) y oro-.

Piezas únicas.

Otros objetos desde la izquierda: lepidolita –litio-, tabla periódica de los elementos años 70, cobre de Marruecos, azufre de Bolivia.

Pintura sobre papel: cuadernos de cuentas comerciales Miquelrius pintados a mano hoja por hoja,

2018-2019

VADE MECUM

Tierras Raras, Vade Mecum de los elementos de la tabla periódica, escrito y desarrollado por la artista

Centro Botín, Santander

2019

VADE MECUM

Tierras Raras, Vade Mecum de los elementos de la tabla periódica, escrito y desarrollado por la artista

Centro Botín, Santander

2019

VADE MECUM

Tierras Raras, Vade Mecum de los elementos de la tabla periódica, escrito y desarrollado por la artista

Centro Botín, Santander

2019

Blanca de la Torre

Quadra Minerale: Rare earth and critc minerals

Addressing issues involving fossil resources from the optic of the visual arts without falling into some of the most recurrent commonplaces and aesthetics is a highly fraught task, which is why Rosell Meseguer tackles this subject matter with apposite precaution, taking a subtle approach in which she appropriates the conventional dictionary format in order to offer the reader an apparently simplified way of reading some of the elements of the periodic table and their fossil derivatives.

This compendium compiles knowledge on Geology, Economic Theory and Political Ecology and combines them with the personal archive of the artist’s “memory” in the form of maps, drawings, photographs and sketches that have been part of her body of work since 1999, and even objects from her own family, like some beakers for soldiers in the Spanish Civil War belonging to her grandfather, and minerals she acquired or are on loan from IGME (Geological and Mining Institute of Spain).

Meseguer’s decision to opt for the format of the old encyclopaedia or dictionary would seem to ironically point to a particular period, the so-called Enlightenment, key to the history of the colonisation of Nature, in which, in the name of alleged —heteropatriarchal, white and Eurocentric—knowledge, the foundations of other types of traditional forms of knowledge were destroyed, like those of indigenous communities and, in consequence, those related to an understanding of and respect for nature.

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Rare earth elements 2017-2019

On the basis of the war, deeply linked to mineral colonization, Rare Earth Elements, has sought to expand the geopolitical reading on the subject and the problems derived from it - technology, economy and society - from a publication, an installation of the creative process, a pictorial polyptych and various works in drawing, printmaking, video and photography.

In 2010, the press began to talk about the so-called "war of the rare earths".

Rare Earths and lanthanides, have been extracted from the end of the 19th century. They belong to a large group of the periodic table of elements, which celebrates 150 years of history in 2019.

En la década de 1960 empezaron a aplicarse en tecnología puntera.

In the 1960's, they started being used for high technology.
• China, United States, India and Brazil, are major producers of rare earths.

China is now a key country in the production of the Rare Earths and its tight control has generated profound disagreements and conflicts - affection and disaffection - worldwide.

This project has been carried out thanks to the support of the Botín Santander Center (Production Grant) and the Geominer Museum, IGME, Instituto Geominero de España The development of the proposal concludes in the Vade Mecum: Quadra Minerale. Rare earths, other minerals and mining concepts. An approach to the elements and their technological uses in contemporary days.

Commercial transaction metals

– aluminum, silver, lead, mercury (cinnabar), copper and gold- Painting on paper, hand-painted sheet by sheet, on Miquelrius economic account notebooks

2018-2019. Unique art pieces

Guide intervention-Documenta (14))

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (17) Guide intervention VI

2010 - in process


(Manual DOCUMENTA photos)


Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents


2010 - in process


-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile


APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

CARBÓN DULCE by Rosell Meseguer 2016

A project about the black coal, smoke and intense dark of the precious ore

Anthracite, lignite, coal and peat; all coals

Coal, coal and more coal, absolute black, plated, ochre black and shadows; hard as a rock and soft as the land where it was born. Coal for heating, charcoal-burning, coal for cooking, coal to market, coal or carbón..

Sweet coal, for children, black coal for miners. Gold, incense and myrrh.

Myrrh; 2016

Showcase, different types of coals, myrrh, incense and carbón dulce sweet coal; 2016

Artist's book Carbón Dulce (Sweet Coal )- several papers, stickers and black pictures, ochre and gray - and black gloves; 2016; Collection Foundation ANKARIA

Table (Museo Geominero, Madrid), artist's book Carbón Dulce (Sweet Coal )- several papers, stickers and black pictures, ochre and gray - and black gloves; 2016

Showcase, different types of coals, myrrh, incense and carbón dulce sweet coal; 2016

2010 - in process

Guide intervention-Documenta (13)

Deconstruction of a guide, catalogue of documents

-Palimpsest: "once again recorded" or "engraved again"

-When time is called into question; the construction of itself

Facsimile

APOCRIFIA (Borges) / authorship

DERRIDA: When you supplement, a shadow of doubt is projected on the origin: origin and supplement

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009

dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch/The guidebook

Guidebook painted & collaged

Painting and collage on paper

2012-2016

Project on process since 2009