Until March 12th, the 'Casa Museo' in Mijas Village is hosting a retrospective exhibition that pays tribute to the multidisciplinary artist Charlotte Gordon, coinciding with the first anniversary of her demise. The exhibition includes photographs, engravings and sculptures, as well as panels with information about her extensive artistic career in disciplines such as sculpture, graphic design and photography, among others.
For her family, this exhibition is a way of closing a sad stage, the one they have lived through these months after Gordon's unexpected death on January 29th, 2023. It is a way of remembering the work of this American artist, who began as a graphic designer in New York, "where she worked for almost 30 years for an important American magazine, called 'Seventeen Magazine', which still exists, and became the first woman art director of this publication, also helping many other American artists to emerge", said one of her sons, Jesse Gordon.
Charlotte Gordon first came to the south of Spain in 1957, falling in love with the people and the tranquillity that, at that time, was to be found in both Mijas and Fuengirola. It was also during these years that she discovered pottery but, for economic reasons, her career continued in London, where she began to work in sculpture and, later, in engraving and photography. In 1972 she returned to Spain permanently with her husband, with whom she also shared her love of art. "She treated art in a sacred way and entering a museum was for her like entering a cathedral for a practising Catholic. Something very spiritual", said her other son, Benjamin Gordon.
The tribute exhibition to Gordon was inaugurated on the afternoon of March 2nd and in it we can see just a small summary of her extensive work and the artistic legacy she left in our municipality. In this regard, the councillor for Culture, Juan Carlos Maldonado (PMP), recalled on Saturday that, in 2007, Charlotte Gordon also founded Arte Mijas, "thus making her work very popular, because she let people interested in her art visit the studio to see her work. She always showed a special sensitivity, above all, towards children, and here we can also see her creative wealth".
Charlotte's output as an artist was enormous, as was her affection for the village of Mijas and for such deep-rooted traditions as that of San Antón, which, incidentally, she photographed on numerous occasions. During the presentation of the exhibition, one of her closest friends, Janet Mendel, said that "many of the works that are here today we have seen exhibited in her house, and to see them here without her brings about a mixture of feelings, of sadness, obviously, but at the same time of joy, because she was a fantastic woman".
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