Silvia Olabarría
23 Jul - 15 Sep 2013
SILVIA OLABARRÍA
Todos Nosotros
23 July - 15 September 2013
Sala Rekalde presents the exhibition of Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974) as part of the program barriek 2013 that will show the work of a selection of the artists that held Bizkaia Provincial Council Artistic Creation Grants.
The work offered by Silvia Olabarría forms part of a series comprising paintings and collages which the artist began at the end of 2010.
The titles of the works and that of the series (Todos Nosotros) were taken from loose phrases from Raymond Carver’s poetry, and others that, although not actually by this author, certainly could be in terms of their everyday feel and stylistic similarity – figures of speech such as “Don’t even lift a finger” or “It’s a relief”. The artist chose them, she says, “because I’m linguistically drawn towards this style and also because of the ambiguity produced through their being expressions everyone uses, making them kind of familiar and unclear at the same time, as they don’t explain anything about the work. I think the titles are in the same vein as the works”.
In this series Silvia Olabarría works directly with photographic images: “tearing them, joining them, and using their textures (stains on walls and floors or on clothes...) which point again to the surplus, to voids, remains in the blank spaces I leave behind”. For the artist: “They are to do with dissection, making and unmaking space, penetrating it and opening new rifts”.
THE ARTIST. www.openstudios.es/silviaolabarria
Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), specialising in Painting, but studied later in various photography workshops at Central Saint Martins School of Arts in London. In 2002 she took a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Complutense University in Madrid.
Since 1997 Silvia has shown her work in national rooms and galleries including the Fundación de Arte BBK in Bilbao, the gallery Travesía Cuatro in Madrid, in 2003, and since 2008 she has held various individual and collective shows in the Galería Egam in Madrid. She has participated in various curator-run exhibitions or projects selected by an advisory committee, such as the Estella-Lizarra Painting Biennial in 2007, Getxo Arte 09, Open Studio 2012 and, most recently, the PAC Cabinet of Curiosities. She was selected in 2002 and awarded later, in 2007, in the IV Carsa National Painting, Art and Technology Contest, and on various occasions has received the Visual Arts Scholarship from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
Todos Nosotros
23 July - 15 September 2013
Sala Rekalde presents the exhibition of Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974) as part of the program barriek 2013 that will show the work of a selection of the artists that held Bizkaia Provincial Council Artistic Creation Grants.
The work offered by Silvia Olabarría forms part of a series comprising paintings and collages which the artist began at the end of 2010.
The titles of the works and that of the series (Todos Nosotros) were taken from loose phrases from Raymond Carver’s poetry, and others that, although not actually by this author, certainly could be in terms of their everyday feel and stylistic similarity – figures of speech such as “Don’t even lift a finger” or “It’s a relief”. The artist chose them, she says, “because I’m linguistically drawn towards this style and also because of the ambiguity produced through their being expressions everyone uses, making them kind of familiar and unclear at the same time, as they don’t explain anything about the work. I think the titles are in the same vein as the works”.
In this series Silvia Olabarría works directly with photographic images: “tearing them, joining them, and using their textures (stains on walls and floors or on clothes...) which point again to the surplus, to voids, remains in the blank spaces I leave behind”. For the artist: “They are to do with dissection, making and unmaking space, penetrating it and opening new rifts”.
THE ARTIST. www.openstudios.es/silviaolabarria
Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), specialising in Painting, but studied later in various photography workshops at Central Saint Martins School of Arts in London. In 2002 she took a Master’s degree in the Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Complutense University in Madrid.
Since 1997 Silvia has shown her work in national rooms and galleries including the Fundación de Arte BBK in Bilbao, the gallery Travesía Cuatro in Madrid, in 2003, and since 2008 she has held various individual and collective shows in the Galería Egam in Madrid. She has participated in various curator-run exhibitions or projects selected by an advisory committee, such as the Estella-Lizarra Painting Biennial in 2007, Getxo Arte 09, Open Studio 2012 and, most recently, the PAC Cabinet of Curiosities. She was selected in 2002 and awarded later, in 2007, in the IV Carsa National Painting, Art and Technology Contest, and on various occasions has received the Visual Arts Scholarship from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.