June Crespo
15 Jan - 24 Feb 2013
JUNE CRESPO
Amatista
15 January - 24 February 2013
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982), included in the barriek programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Becas de Creación Artística from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The artist, who lives and works in Bilbao, where she also studied Fine Arts, presents, under the title AMATISTA, a series of sculptures made with plaster of Paris, steel rods and graphic materials that stand like columns or structures in relation to a human scale.
June Crespo’s work is characterised by an experimental use of image reproduction and its exploitation within the fields of graphic arts and sculptural installation. She tackles sculpture from a broad perspective, producing objects that are located on the edges of assemblage, collage and camera-less photography (scanners, photocopies and stills).
Within a procedure half way between surrealist object trouvé and a bricoleur logic her sculptures and images emerge from an affective-associative gesture applied to collected materials. She activates a poetic of encounters and transient arrangements until a point is recognised where the union or dispersal of objects produces an impact or identification.
What she does is to extract objects and images from the system of production and consumption in which they circulate in order to set in play their associative possibilities and their power to generate new meanings. That is where the specificity of the printed materials and collected objects is subjected to new relations that give rise to various forms of estrangement, appropriation and recontextualisation.
The artist
June Crespo (Pamplona 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, where she is currently carrying out an investigation as part of the PhD programme Creación como investigación. She has participated in several courses, workshops and residencies in centres that include Arteleku (Donostia-San Sebastian), Bilbao Arte and Azala (Lasierra, Alava). Most notably: artistic practice workshop Lupa e Imán, in 2005 at Arteleku, and Topo artistic residencies in Azala and Artium (Vitoria-Gasteiz) in 2012 and at the KUB Kunsthaus in Bregenz, (Austria) in 2006.
She has received various artistic creation grants and plastic arts awards including Arte e investigación, from the Centro Cultural Montehermoso (2010); a Becas de artes plásticas from the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia (2009-2010); a Resident’s Grant from the Fundación Bilbao Arte (2006); First Prize for Jóvenes Artistas de Pamplona (2005) and First Prize in the Encuentros de jóvenes artistas de Navarra (2007).
Over the last few years she has taken part in the following collective shows: Pop Politics: Activismos a 33 revoluciones at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Móstoles (2012-2013), Mitya at El Polvorín de la Ciudadela de Pamplona (2012), Esta puerta pide clavo at the Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Gante, Belgium and Antes que todo at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Móstoles (2012), Entornos Próximos in Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz and a collective show at the Carreras-Múgica Gallery, Bilbao (2008).
In 2009 and 2011 she published Escanografías.Vol.1/.2 under the publishing label CO-OP and has held the individual exhibition Amatista within the Barriek programme, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2013; Reverso as part of the programme Have a Window, Turín (2013), El rayo verde at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso, within the Arte e investigación programme, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2011), and ST at the Torre de Ariz, Basauri (2010).
Amatista
15 January - 24 February 2013
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982), included in the barriek programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Becas de Creación Artística from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The artist, who lives and works in Bilbao, where she also studied Fine Arts, presents, under the title AMATISTA, a series of sculptures made with plaster of Paris, steel rods and graphic materials that stand like columns or structures in relation to a human scale.
June Crespo’s work is characterised by an experimental use of image reproduction and its exploitation within the fields of graphic arts and sculptural installation. She tackles sculpture from a broad perspective, producing objects that are located on the edges of assemblage, collage and camera-less photography (scanners, photocopies and stills).
Within a procedure half way between surrealist object trouvé and a bricoleur logic her sculptures and images emerge from an affective-associative gesture applied to collected materials. She activates a poetic of encounters and transient arrangements until a point is recognised where the union or dispersal of objects produces an impact or identification.
What she does is to extract objects and images from the system of production and consumption in which they circulate in order to set in play their associative possibilities and their power to generate new meanings. That is where the specificity of the printed materials and collected objects is subjected to new relations that give rise to various forms of estrangement, appropriation and recontextualisation.
The artist
June Crespo (Pamplona 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, where she is currently carrying out an investigation as part of the PhD programme Creación como investigación. She has participated in several courses, workshops and residencies in centres that include Arteleku (Donostia-San Sebastian), Bilbao Arte and Azala (Lasierra, Alava). Most notably: artistic practice workshop Lupa e Imán, in 2005 at Arteleku, and Topo artistic residencies in Azala and Artium (Vitoria-Gasteiz) in 2012 and at the KUB Kunsthaus in Bregenz, (Austria) in 2006.
She has received various artistic creation grants and plastic arts awards including Arte e investigación, from the Centro Cultural Montehermoso (2010); a Becas de artes plásticas from the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia (2009-2010); a Resident’s Grant from the Fundación Bilbao Arte (2006); First Prize for Jóvenes Artistas de Pamplona (2005) and First Prize in the Encuentros de jóvenes artistas de Navarra (2007).
Over the last few years she has taken part in the following collective shows: Pop Politics: Activismos a 33 revoluciones at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Móstoles (2012-2013), Mitya at El Polvorín de la Ciudadela de Pamplona (2012), Esta puerta pide clavo at the Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Gante, Belgium and Antes que todo at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Móstoles (2012), Entornos Próximos in Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz and a collective show at the Carreras-Múgica Gallery, Bilbao (2008).
In 2009 and 2011 she published Escanografías.Vol.1/.2 under the publishing label CO-OP and has held the individual exhibition Amatista within the Barriek programme, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2013; Reverso as part of the programme Have a Window, Turín (2013), El rayo verde at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso, within the Arte e investigación programme, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2011), and ST at the Torre de Ariz, Basauri (2010).