Today we’d like to introduce you to Tania EA.
Hi Tania, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
I have always had a fascination for symbols and the way we communicate, especially fonts and geometry. The expression through strokes that transforms into meanings led me to create my own language, allowing me to reflect beyond the form and express it in a sculptural way, which is why I started my career creating Geometric and Typography sculptures.
The last couple of years, I have been working on another passion of mine: WINE and how to convert it into ART. Using wine as an art material in paintings, photographies, sculptures, video, and sound. Experimenting different techniques to create a metamorphosis of wine into ART and the hope to leave a new process of contemporary art full of history in every drop.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
My biggest struggle today has been creating my own style and a new technique; I have been studying, experimenting, and creating new way of transforming wine and all its history into ART. Wine has a lot of background about or roots, the land, the cima, and history of humankind; years full of stories around wine make every artwork full of meaning. Working with an organic element has its challenges, specially if you are creating a new technique. It is always a high and lows kind of process, but I think us artists have the responsibility of creating something new, something that has never been donde before, and that gives a new material, a new technique to contemporary art.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m a Mexican artist who lives and works between Mexico and Miami. Working in the fields of research and creation in the form of sculpture, photography, painting, augmented reality, and other alternative media that allows the expression and transformation of symbols and messages.
My artistic practice is based on decoding the relationship between geometry, language, and wine.
Wine is a spiritual drink, and history gives soul to every single drop, making expressive works of art with different meanings through different media.
My research is mainly based on wine as a media of artistic creation, with all the history, traditions, and roots that are indicated in this beverage. The creation of new art techniques with wine and different means to create a new transformation of wine: into ART.
I have had numerous exhibitions in museums, biennials, and galleries around the world, including the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the Soncino Bienniale in Italy, José Luis Cuevas Museum, Torres Bicentennial Museum, Rufino Tamayo Bienniale, Tijuana Triennale, and Art Fairs in Shanghai, New York, Miami to mention a few.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
I have learned a lot from my time in Miami; I believe now that everyone should be an immigrant in some point of their lives; it is a humbling experience; you grow and learn so much, you embrace change, you learn about yourself as much as you learn about others. You fight to find that place to call home, not taking anything for granted. Miami is the ultimate melting pot of cultures, languages, and stories unified for the love of whatever made you move here in the first place and then everything that made you stay.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.taniaea.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tania.ea/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taniaeastudio
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/taniaeastudio
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@taniaea
- Other: https://www.taniaespondaaja.com/vinus
Image Credits
Criss Jaramillo
Tania EA Studio
