Eluska Zabalo Monje
Born in 1982 in Donostia, Eluska Zabalo Monje studied art and sociology at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. Based in Bilbao, she combines her artistic activities with teaching art to children and adults. She is currently working on a multidisciplinary project, Paisai alderraiak (Erratic Landscapes), which combines elements of drawing and engraving.
The work exhibited here forms part of this project. Twelve photogravures on aluminium sheets reproduce enlarged fragments of landscapes previously engraved on copper plates. Taking the landscape as a reference, the artist uses deconstruction and fragmentation to pursue a strategy of alienation between form and line.
Her objective is to attain a level of abstraction in relation to her point of departure in which referential and formal values are in a state of tense equilibrium. Through fragmentation and reassembly, she pushes to its limits the relationship between the whole and its constituent parts. Reassembled in a new order, the fragments compose a new unity while at the same time demonstrating their discontinuity.
Articles lié(s) à l'artiste
Eluska Zabalo wins the Nautilus Lanzarote Prize
Septembre 17, 2018
Itzal Aktiboa Prize 2015
Five young artists selected as finalists
Septembre 11, 2015
Eluska Zabalo Monje
Bilbo
