93. ÁNGELA DE
LA CRUZ
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Compressed (Cream), 2011Oil
and acrylic on aluminium, 123 x 70 x 60 cm
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Larger than Life, 2004Oil
and acrylic on canvas, 260 x 400 x 1050 cm
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Clutter wardrobes, 2004
Wood
Dimensions variable |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In
1965 La Coruna, Spain
Nowadays:
Studies:
1987-89
Faculty of Philosophy, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
BA Philosophy
1989-90
Foundation, Chelsea College of Art, London
1991-94
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths’ College, London
1994-96
MA Sculpture and Critical Theory, Slade School of Art,
London
Themes and
style:
She
engages with the discourse about the ‘problem’ with painting by targeting its
basic anatomy: the stretcher, normally left to its job of keeping the canvas
smooth and pliant. De la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling
the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice of the canvas to unleash it into
three-dimensional space. Slashed, twisted and reformed into something
approaching sculpture, there is a dark humour at play.
Convention
punctured, her works seem to mimic aspects of human behaviour or states of mind
– cowering, cringing, surviving – and, more recently, this sense of human scale
has been bolstered by works incorporating items of domestic furniture, such as
chairs and tables. Prostrate on the floor or hanging on the wall like macabre
trophies, they are evidence of a violent process and, as such, confront it as
something thrilling, fearsome and, whether soiled or slick, just beneath the
surface.
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings and sculpture.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Escombros / Debris, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
(forthcoming)
Mudanza, CarrerasMugica Gallery, Bilbao, Spain (forthcoming)
Larger Than Life, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Escombros / Debris, Fundación Luis Seoane, La Coruna, Spain
2014
Traspaso, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2013
Vacant, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Burst, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
2012
Transfer, Anna Schwartz, Melbourne, Australia
Wet, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2011
Transfer, Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Transfer, Lisson Gallery, London
2010
After, Camden Arts Centre, London
2006
Angela de la Cruz Trabalho Work Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
2005
Larger Than Life, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo,
Sevilla, Spain
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004
Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, MARCO, Spain
Clutter, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Project room, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2003
Galleri Bouhlou, Norway
Clutter, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2002
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Prop, Sturegallerian, Stockholm, Sweden
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Perth International Arts Festival, The Church Gallery, Perth,
Australia
2001
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2000
John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1999
Everyday Painting, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
One Painting, Lift Gallery, London, UK
1998
Larger Than Life, The Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, London,
UK
Everyday Painting, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
4xSolo, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
Everyday Painting, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium
1993
Untitled, Premises, Hackney, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2015
Real Painting,
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester What Is Contemporary Art?, Galeria Mario Sequeira,
Braga
Adventures of the
Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel, London
Drawing Biennial
2015, Drawing Room, London
La Coleccion.
Coleccion de Pintura Contemporanea Internacional, Fundacion Barrie, Madrid,
Spain
2014
Der Kubist Marcel
Duchamp mag nicht malen, Thomas Scutte Gallery, Berlin
Enantiodromia, Fold
Gallery, London
Resonance(s), Maison
Particulliere Art Center, Brussels
Call me on Suday,
Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Colour Me In, Esbjerg
Art Museum, Denmark
Tiempos Abiertos –
Fondos de la Coleccion Artium de Alava, DA2~Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2013
The Art of the
Present, Colección Helga de Alvear, CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura y
Ciudadanía, Madrid
Jetztzeit (Present
time) + The Angel’s Back, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
The Art of Not
Making, Hå gamle prestegard, Nærbø, Norway
La Imagen
Especular–Tirar del hilo, Colección Artium | Sala Sur, Artium~Centro Museo
Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
ON PAINTING—Prácticas
pictóricas actuales... más allá de la Pintura o más acá, CAAM, Centro Atlántico
de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2012
The Art of Not
Making, Sumarria Lunn, London
Representation and
the Body, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Fabricated
Object, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, UK
Tirar de Hilo (e
imagen espectacular), Coleccion ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain
Delimitations,
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Summer Exhibition,
Royal Academy, London, UK
IV Bienal de Arte
Contemporaneo, ONCE, Madrid, Spain
In abstraction, the
body, Curated by Jason Smith, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
2011
Model vs Reality,
Fold Gallery, London
What If It's All
True? What Then? Mummery + Schnelle Ltd, London.
ROTOR, Siobhan
Davies, Edinburgh
ROTOR, Whitworth Art
Gallery, Manchester, UK
Made In Britain:
Contemporary Art From The British Council Collection 1980–2010, Hong Kong
Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Contemporary Spanish
in Helga de Alvear Collection, Caceres, Spain
Pulso XXI, Coleccion
Sanchez-Ubiria, MAS, Santander, Spain
De/Constructing the
Norm, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Historias de la Vida
Material, Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
Ficciones Y
Realidades, Arte Espanol de los 2000 en la Coleccion Arte Contemporaneo
Museo Patio
Herreriano, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Aproximaciones I.
Arte español Contentemporaneo en la Coleccion de Helga de Alvear. Fundacion
Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
Out of Storage,
Timmerfabriek, Maastricht, Netherlands
La Colección,
Fundación Barrié. Sede A Coruña, Spain
Surreal versus
Surrealismo en el arte contemporáneo, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2010
Turner Prize, Tate
Britain
Gallery Artists,
Wetterling Gallery
ROTOR, Siobhan
Davies, London
La Abstraccion
Redefinida Espana America, Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
Cosmètica dogmàtica.
Col·lecció d'art contemporani Fundació la Caixa" curated by Luis Gordillo.
Barcelona, Spain. Umedalen Skulptur June 2010
Paul Hamlyn award,
Oct. 2010
Umedalen Skulptur,
June 2010
2009
Soft Sculpture,
National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
HoviArt, Anttolanovi,
Anttola, Finland
Union Fenosa, La
Coruna, Spain
Fundacion Marco
Pastor, La Coruna, Spain
Irreversible,
Pontevedra, Spain
Afinidades Electivas,
La Panera Lerida, Project by Miquel Mont
Artists of the
Gallery – A Special Selection – Galerie Krinzinger, Vienne
Spheres, Le Moulin,
Boissy-le-Chatel
HotchPotch, MKII,
Hackney, London
2008
Atered States of
Paint, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Afinitats electives,
Centre d’art Panera, Lleida, Spain
Mapas Emarxes,
Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago, Spain
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
…same as it ever was,
University of the Arts, London, UK
Framat, Rekord
Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Golden Rain, Project by Michael Petry, Stavanger, Norway
2007
Global Feminisms,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Slipping Abstraction,
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Pasiones Privadas,
Visiones Publicas, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
La Vida Privada:
Coleccion Josep Ma Civi’, CDNA Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
Sublime: Experiencias
y Percepciones en Escultura Contemporanea, Galeria Pilar Parra y Romero,
Madrid, Spain
2006
Contrabando, Galeria
Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Carolina Grau
2005
Mallorca Open ’05:
Principles of Construction, Centre Cultural Andratx
Albright Knox Museum,
Buffalo, USA
Showcase, Talbot Rice
Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2 Bienal de Jafre,
Spain, Comisarios: Mario Flecha y Carolina Grau
2004
ShowCASe Preview,
South London Gallery, London*
Pilot:1,
International Art Forum, Old Limehouse Town Hall, London, E14,
Forum Barcelona,
Spain
Tanya Rumpff Gallery,
Haarlem, The Netherlands
Manifesta V, San
Sebastian, Spain
Escape Velocities,
Spital Space, London
A Thing About
Painting, Platform Gallery, London
Painting as Process:
Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery I and II, LASALLE-SIA College of the
Arts, 5th June- 4th July
2003
Tra Est e Ovest -
Galerie Krinzinger, GAS Art Gallery,Turin, Italy
chockofuckingblock,
Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
Group Show,
Whitechapel Project Space, London
Wetterling 1978-2003,
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
Eva Schlegel &
Friends, Gallerie 422, Gmunden, Austria
Four Women and A
Pregnant Man, curated AK Dolven, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
Art, curated by David
Mitchell, Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda
Life is Beautiful,
curated by Andrew Patrizio, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Sitting Tenants,
curated by Anna Vickery, Lotta Hammer, London
2001
Melancholy,
Sunderland
Ingenting (Nothing:
Exploring Invisibilities), Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Record Collection,
curated by Elaine Forde & Mel Brimfield, VTO Gallery, London
Nothing: Exploring
Invisibilities, curated by Graham Gussin & Ele Carpenter,
Northern Gallery
Contemporary Art. Touring to Mead Gallery, University
of Warwick, Warwick
Makeshift, curated by
David Green, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
2000
Landscape, Barbara
Gillman Gallery, Miami, USA
3 Rooms, Anthony
Wilkinson Gallery, London
The Wreck of Hope,
curated Edward Chell, Simon Morley, Nick Wyatt, The Nunnery, London
Point of View I/II,
curated by Thomas Frangenberg, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Art for the 21st
Century, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1999
My Old Man Said
Follow the Van, curated by Carolina Grau, Rosemary Branch, London
Aktuelle Kunst, The
Water Tower, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
White Out, Gallery
Fine, London
John Moores 21
(Prizewinner), Walker Museum & Art Gallery, Liverpool
Getting the Corners
curated by Matthew Higgs, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Transgressions and
Transformations, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Europe on a
Shoestring, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
Links- Schilderkunst
in extremis? curated by Jan de Nys,
Provincienhuis, Maastricht, The Netherlands
I’m a Virgin, curated
by Esther Windsor, The Waiting Room, Wolverhampton
French Institute,
Vienna, Austria
Fundacion Lazaro
Guadiano, Madrid, Spain
Peinture sur
PEINTURE, Salle de Bal, Vienna, Austria
54x54, curated by
Michael Petry, MOCA, London
1998
UK Maximum Diversity,
curated by Ursula Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz.
Touring to
Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna
Contemporary Women
Painters, The Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
Speed, The New
Langton Arts Centre, San Francisco, USA
Destroyer/Creator,
John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Take Off, curated by
Ursula Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz,
CV/Lebenslauf,
Hamburg, Germany
Dissolution, Laurent
Delaye Gallery, London
Fasten Seatbelt,
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Shuttle, Anthony
Wilkinson Fine Art, London
Lineart, Galerie In
Situ, Aalst, Belgium
1996
Stepping Out, 33
Great Sutton Street, London
Wasted, Hyena Co.,
Web-site, UK
Abstract Eroticism,
MOCA, ‘Art and Design’, Academy Editions, London
1995
Memory, Riverside
Studios, London
1994
Making Mischief, St
James’s Street, London
Surface Tension,
Curwen Gallery, London
1993
Rubber Works
Installation, Spitalfields Market Project, London
In her own words:
“The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the
grandiosity of painting”
Nominations and Prizes
2011
Art Critics Awards, ARCO, Spain
Premio da Critica Galicia
2010
Turner Prize Nomination 2010
Paul Hamlyn Award 2010
Representative
Galleries:
Lisson
Wetterling
Anna Schwartz
For
more Information:
http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/angela-de-la-cruz/
http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/angela-de-la-cruz
http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com/works/works?artist=3