Lourdes de la Villa
15 Apr - 18 May 2014
LOURDES DE LA VILLA
Sueño del observador
15 April - 18 May 2014
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Lourdes de la Villa, included in the barriek 2014 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 lives and works in Bilbao, where she also studied Fine Arts and gained her PhD at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. With the title Sueño del observador (Observer’s dream) she exhibits at Sala Rekalde a set of works that go back to her stay in 2010 in the Austrian city of Bregenz, thanks to an artist exchange programme that BilbaoArte engaged in.
Through these photographs taken in Bregenz, Lourdes de la Villa has created a mental atmosphere as psychological material of her own experience which helps her to seek out a concrete visual form. The result does not intend to be autobiographical but attempts to respond to the process whereby memory is constituted.
The artist tries to represent what the observer sees by means of the digital manipulation of an image to move from sketches (photomontages) to an image that can be stamped, “serigraphed”; although at all times she maintains a support, material and steps characteristic of the pictorial medium. From the preparation of the cloth to the manufacture of her own paint, adapted for use on the serigraph screen.
THE ARTIST
Lourdes de la Villa (Burgos, 1970) is a Fine Arts graduate from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU (2000), where she also gained her PhD in 2011. At the University of Deusto she was awarded a Diploma of Specialization in Contemporary Basque Art in 2001. She has participated in courses, seminars and workshops, including Serigrafía expandida: Del papel a la intervención serigráfica (BilbaoArte, 2011).
She received a Visual Arts scholarship from the Regional Council of Bizkaia (2012) and in 2010 was artist in residence at BilbaoArte (Bilbao) and at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz (Austria). Between 2003 and 2007 she obtained a Predoctoral Scholarship from the Basque Government Department of Education, Universities and Research.
In recent years she has taken part in various collective shows: Edición múltiple (Bizkaia Aretoa Paraninfo, Bilbao, 2011), Artist exchange Bilbao-Voralberg (Stephanie Hollenstein gallery in Lustenau, Austria, 2010), Egoileak 2010 residentes (BilbaoArte, 2010), Paisajismos. Land_scapes (Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, 2007), V Concurso de Artes Plásticas del Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos del País Vasco (Bilbao, 2007), Le cloître 2005. Mémoire des lieux (cloister of the Cathedral of Bayonne, 2005), and IV Biennale art contemporain de Navarre (St. Jean Pied de Port-Donibane Garazi, 2005). At an individual level she has shown Secuencia imaginada (BilbaoArte, Bilbao, 2011).
In 2014 Lourdes was on a three-month stay (January - April) as an invited researcher at the CIPEI (Centro de Investigación - Producción y Estudios de la Imagen) directed by Fernando Zamora Águila from the National School of Plastic Arts, attached to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico F.D.
Sueño del observador
15 April - 18 May 2014
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Lourdes de la Villa, included in the barriek 2014 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 lives and works in Bilbao, where she also studied Fine Arts and gained her PhD at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. With the title Sueño del observador (Observer’s dream) she exhibits at Sala Rekalde a set of works that go back to her stay in 2010 in the Austrian city of Bregenz, thanks to an artist exchange programme that BilbaoArte engaged in.
Through these photographs taken in Bregenz, Lourdes de la Villa has created a mental atmosphere as psychological material of her own experience which helps her to seek out a concrete visual form. The result does not intend to be autobiographical but attempts to respond to the process whereby memory is constituted.
The artist tries to represent what the observer sees by means of the digital manipulation of an image to move from sketches (photomontages) to an image that can be stamped, “serigraphed”; although at all times she maintains a support, material and steps characteristic of the pictorial medium. From the preparation of the cloth to the manufacture of her own paint, adapted for use on the serigraph screen.
THE ARTIST
Lourdes de la Villa (Burgos, 1970) is a Fine Arts graduate from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU (2000), where she also gained her PhD in 2011. At the University of Deusto she was awarded a Diploma of Specialization in Contemporary Basque Art in 2001. She has participated in courses, seminars and workshops, including Serigrafía expandida: Del papel a la intervención serigráfica (BilbaoArte, 2011).
She received a Visual Arts scholarship from the Regional Council of Bizkaia (2012) and in 2010 was artist in residence at BilbaoArte (Bilbao) and at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz (Austria). Between 2003 and 2007 she obtained a Predoctoral Scholarship from the Basque Government Department of Education, Universities and Research.
In recent years she has taken part in various collective shows: Edición múltiple (Bizkaia Aretoa Paraninfo, Bilbao, 2011), Artist exchange Bilbao-Voralberg (Stephanie Hollenstein gallery in Lustenau, Austria, 2010), Egoileak 2010 residentes (BilbaoArte, 2010), Paisajismos. Land_scapes (Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, 2007), V Concurso de Artes Plásticas del Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos del País Vasco (Bilbao, 2007), Le cloître 2005. Mémoire des lieux (cloister of the Cathedral of Bayonne, 2005), and IV Biennale art contemporain de Navarre (St. Jean Pied de Port-Donibane Garazi, 2005). At an individual level she has shown Secuencia imaginada (BilbaoArte, Bilbao, 2011).
In 2014 Lourdes was on a three-month stay (January - April) as an invited researcher at the CIPEI (Centro de Investigación - Producción y Estudios de la Imagen) directed by Fernando Zamora Águila from the National School of Plastic Arts, attached to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico F.D.