Beatriz Olabarrieta
dal 16/3/2012 al 4/5/2012
Segnalato da
16/3/2012
Beatriz Olabarrieta
Motinternational, Bruxelles
For 'Foliage' the artist expands upon her interest in Deleuzian concepts, of the body without organs, where one thing leads to another. Her sculpture occupies space, finding its' own form, as water, unconfined is free to splash, surge or trickle.
Motinternational Brussels is pleased to announce its’ first solo exhibition by gallery artist Beatriz Olabarrieta.
Olabarrieta makes dense free form sculptural installations that combine lo-fi building materials with video and photocopied images. Her highly original approach to these materials in conjunction with the myriad of open-ended scenarios that play out in both her short looped video sequences and tense sculptural melees make her an incredibly exciting artist to exhibit.
For Foliage Olabarrieta expands upon her interest in Deleuzian concepts, of the body without organs, where one thing leads to another. Her sculpture occupies space, finding its’ own form, as water, unconfined is free to splash, surge or trickle. Sheets of wood are interlaced with images, balls, or peppered with holes, sliced with machine cut slots that make them stand and sway on their newly manufactured limbs. More movement is created through low quality black and white videos of cut paper blowing in a fictional wind. Ball bearings and marbles role around on magazine pages, eluding the eye of the tiger, or the artist’s efforts to draw round them. The videos populate the installations on small screens or project from the sculptures themselves. Subject is lost, the form becomes alien and the viewer is presented with something that they cannot grasp.
Beatriz Olabarrieta was born in Bilboa, Spain in 1979 and graduated from the Royal Collage of Art in 2007. Selected previous exhibitions include: Trayecto Gallery, Vitoria, Spain; Artist of the Day, Flower Central, London, England; Les Télévisions, French Riviera, London, England; Hospitalarios, Sala Amárica, Vitoria, Spain; Echo, Sequence 2, Koraalberg Projects, Antwerp; Residents, Fundacion Bilbaoarte, Bilbao, Spain; Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC, USA
Maus Habito, Oporto, Portugal.
Foliage will be accompanied by a text by London-based writer and curator Catherine Borra.
Image: Foliage
Private view Saturday 17th March 6-9pm
Motinternational Brussels
Rue Vandenbrandenstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Open Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 6
and by appointment.
The gallery is closed on public holidays.