Sindria Segura

SINDRIA SEGURA (Terrasa, 1951)
"A kiss is just a Kiss", 1982.
Acrylic on board.
Work exhibited at Buades Gallery (Madrid), 1983.
Presents wet stamp of the Buades Gallery (Madrid) on the back.
Signed, dated on the back.
Measurements: 210 x 144.6 cm; 210,5 x 146 cm (frame).
Sindria Segura is a Spanish visual artist whose work and career are inscribed in the transnational dynamics of contemporary art at the end of the 20th century. Her production has circulated both in European circuits and in North American artistic contexts, which places her in a critical space between plastic practices and hybrid cultural networks during the central decades of the postmodern period.
Sindria Segura emerged in a Catalan cultural context marked by the transition from academic formalism to new experimental searches. Her artistic youth coincides with a moment of openness towards interdisciplinary practices and international artistic relations that characterized the last decades and the democratic transition in Spain.
During her time in the United States, Sindria Segura established links with central figures in international contemporary art. She interacted with artists of the New York scene of the 1980s such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe and Schanabel, and participated in collective activities that are identified under the name of the group Las Escandalosas (The Scandalous).
The anecdotal record of a photograph in which Segura symbolically takes a wig from Warhol while holding a globe suggests a critical and performative stance that was inscribed in the postmodern artistic practices of that decade,
In February 1989, Segura accompanied artist Keith Haring in the search for a site for a mural against AIDS, a project that finally took place in the Plaza Salvador Seguí in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona.