Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo
20 May - 20 Jul 2014
MIKELDI PÉREZ URKIJO
Andamiaje
20 May - 20 July 2014
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo (Getxo, 1983), 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.
This project kicked off from a pressing need I had, which was to find a tool completely beyond my technical mastery. It was then that a fire extinguisher fell into my hands. I knew that device, filled with paint, could be used to paint great swathes in seconds, and this was to be my instrument.
To my great regret, this new technique is too much for me. I must find a balance, establish bounds and force a structure into being, this is way out of my control. Then, quite by chance I come across some scaffolding, and see it is just what I’m after. The combination of the geometric drawings that I obtain utilizing the scaffolding structure as a guide, with the paint violently splashed on the wall, appears to work. And the relation between the pictorial image produced and the physical support that, as an object disassociated from it, has configured it from a distance, arouses my interest.
Some time later, I can’t recall what took me there, I found myself reading the definition of the term ́andamiaje` in a dictionary. The second entry makes it all fit together: "Outer structure through which an intellectual, political, academic construction is organized and shaped, etc.
Prior to this project, my work principally revolved around the relation created between the pictorial image and its physical support. Somehow, although I made unitary pieces, I always considered these two features separately: the image, and the sculptural or material. I tried to join them together, without the physical object becoming replaced by its own image.
In this installation, the relation between the pictorial and the sculptural is different from that in the previous work. They are separate objects. Each of them evidently possesses its own image and supporting material, but between the scaffolding and the mural a relation exists that is not only formal, but structural and indissoluble.
Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo
THE ARTIST www.mikeldi.net
Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo (Getxo, 1983) lives and works in Sopela (Bizkaia). He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU in 2008. Since then he has received various artistic creation grants and visual arts awards including the Premio Creación Injuve de Artes Visuales (2010), the Residency grant at the Bilbao Arte Foundation (2010), the Third Ertibil-Bizkaia (2011) and the Regional Council of Bizkaia Art Creation Grant (2012-2013).In the last few years, he has held individual shows at the Louis 21 gallery in Palma de Mallorca (Neniu Signalo, 2013) and at the Paz y Comedias gallery in Valencia (Hacia el medio, 2014), as well as several collective exhibitions, both in the Spanish State and abroad.
Andamiaje
20 May - 20 July 2014
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo (Getxo, 1983), 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.
This project kicked off from a pressing need I had, which was to find a tool completely beyond my technical mastery. It was then that a fire extinguisher fell into my hands. I knew that device, filled with paint, could be used to paint great swathes in seconds, and this was to be my instrument.
To my great regret, this new technique is too much for me. I must find a balance, establish bounds and force a structure into being, this is way out of my control. Then, quite by chance I come across some scaffolding, and see it is just what I’m after. The combination of the geometric drawings that I obtain utilizing the scaffolding structure as a guide, with the paint violently splashed on the wall, appears to work. And the relation between the pictorial image produced and the physical support that, as an object disassociated from it, has configured it from a distance, arouses my interest.
Some time later, I can’t recall what took me there, I found myself reading the definition of the term ́andamiaje` in a dictionary. The second entry makes it all fit together: "Outer structure through which an intellectual, political, academic construction is organized and shaped, etc.
Prior to this project, my work principally revolved around the relation created between the pictorial image and its physical support. Somehow, although I made unitary pieces, I always considered these two features separately: the image, and the sculptural or material. I tried to join them together, without the physical object becoming replaced by its own image.
In this installation, the relation between the pictorial and the sculptural is different from that in the previous work. They are separate objects. Each of them evidently possesses its own image and supporting material, but between the scaffolding and the mural a relation exists that is not only formal, but structural and indissoluble.
Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo
THE ARTIST www.mikeldi.net
Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo (Getxo, 1983) lives and works in Sopela (Bizkaia). He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU in 2008. Since then he has received various artistic creation grants and visual arts awards including the Premio Creación Injuve de Artes Visuales (2010), the Residency grant at the Bilbao Arte Foundation (2010), the Third Ertibil-Bizkaia (2011) and the Regional Council of Bizkaia Art Creation Grant (2012-2013).In the last few years, he has held individual shows at the Louis 21 gallery in Palma de Mallorca (Neniu Signalo, 2013) and at the Paz y Comedias gallery in Valencia (Hacia el medio, 2014), as well as several collective exhibitions, both in the Spanish State and abroad.