Anna Talens is an artist born in Valencia, Spain, although nowadays she lives in Berlin. It is in this city where she has developed great part of her artistic career, and where she has found inspiration for many or her works. 

Esta artista valenciana estudió en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, donde fue reconocida como Summa Cum Laude en 2011, y más tarde recibió el premio como Mejor Tesis del Año. 

She has a broad academic background, as she has enjoyed different abroad experience as student, and she has worked as professor and also as researcher in many European universities. 

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Anna Talens basa su proceso de creación en dos principios: el primero, en el uso de procesos repetitivos hechos a mano, y el segundo, la reutilización de objetos que ya existen, lo que se conoce como objet trouvé. 

The results of her work are unique pieces that connect the viewer with something known and something unknown, getting the ordinary to be extraordinary. It is about a transformation process of the existing materials of the tangible world, as she described. 

In her work, the artist uses artistic resources like the repetition, arbitrariness and the accumulation, by cultivating a perverted minimalist by the presence of the colour and texture of the material. 

Anna Talens always try to look for the beauty of the imperfection on objects, reflected of the manual processes and the shape of the elements of the natural world. 

All this inspiration can be reflected in her multidisciplinary works that covers from installations, to sculptures, photography and canvas. A walk around this exposition is amazingly able to let you fascinated and dreamy in front of the work of art. It shows that the reuse of objects can get something ordinary into something extraordinary. 

BAGS BEYOND ANNA TALENS 

Anna Talens ha sido la segunda artista, tras Vicky Uslé en colaborar con la marca de bolsos de lujo ONESIXONE. 

En su trabajo sobre los bolsos, junto con el director creativo Adrián Salvador, la artista ha sido fiel a su personalidad y entidad artística y ha sabido plasmar perfectamente lo anteriormente expuesto. 

“Tras esta colección se escuchan los ecos de lagunas de mis obras, como los trabajos en oro que se basan en la técnica japonesa Kintsugi, los tejidos metálicos hechos a mano con agujas de crochet, los campos infinitos de alfileres que reclaman al tacto y en definitiva, la recreación de un mundo onírico que habla de la vida y de los misterios comunes a la existencia de cualquier ser humano” Concluye Anna Talens. 

De este trabajo surgieron los bolsos de la familia Endless, Hobo Endless y Hobo Clutch, así como el icónico bolso Gaia de ONESIXONE. 

The Hobo Endless is a breaking and different handbag from the original Gaia that represents the brand, although it follows the Aurea Proportion that characterised ONESIXONE. The shape of the handbag transmits sophistication as well simplicity.

 

Al igual que el modelo Endless  Clutch, también basado en texturas que tanto han impactado en las exposiciones de la artista. La verticalidad de este elegante modelo, similar a la caída de una gota de agua, un brote vegetal o una flor que se abre de la misma forma que el bolso, expresa la armonía del diseño áureo que inspira la marca dentro de un patrón infinito.

 

Finally, the iconic Gaia inspired by the golden works of the artist. Three different models of the same small handbag based on minerals, as if it were jewels.

The inspiration and work of Anna Talens for ONESIXONE allows an extension of her art to a more wearable way, democratizing the art. This is why, it is included on each handbag of this collection, a book of art in which it is explained all the creation process, as well as the joining work the creative director Adrian Salvador, and some reflexions of the artist. On the preface of it, it is included a conversation between the prestigious Enrique Loewe and the architect Izaskun Chinchilla. It is a precious sample that you would find inside of a magically presented box.