WIRE ART

Born in 1969 in Lima, Peru this talented young woman initially studied art from 1986 to 1993 at the Facultad de Arte, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
Since then she has carved out a name for herself on the global art scene. Her monumental figures captivate us with their tremendous aura. Fashioned in materials like steel, bronze, copper, silver or plastic the figures are sometimes curved, sometimes knotted and sometimes intertwined. Wires and cables always feature as the dominant forms of expression in her work.
Harmonious yet also contemplative, her figures intermingle in the exhibition halls with exhibitors’ machines and equipment: an earnest-looking young man made of black cables looks at the observer: all his hair, even the stubborn spikes of artistically bristled hair on his three-day stubble, is made of black and white cables and his shirt a wild weave of wires and cables – very much in keeping with the raw materials featured at the leading wire trade fair.
And then white wires tangle into a face, hanging in such as way that only jet-black eyes can be discerned behind it.
Dark shapes with posteriors and long legs stand together in a group. Torsos and faces are not present. Instead, wound cables intimate that this conscious omission is intended to tell the observer something... something left to the imagination...!
Even female elements find expression here in the headless dancer fashioned in twisted wire. Her short tutu and long black tights are reminiscent of a ballerina.., here, too, the head is missing and her implied contours lose themselves in individually trailing wires.
At first sight one thing is clear: Nani Cardenas’ art invites visitors to linger, contemplate and relax away from the bustle of wire.

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