Estudio para relieves II [Studio for Reliefs I]I (2025)
Artist’s book. Papier-mâché, magnets, and rod. Covered with glossy fabric
5,5 x 32 x 51,1 cm (open); 5,5 x 32,5 x 51,5 cm (closed)
BA Collection
Registration No.: 2025.630.1
Burge works by finding ways to produce folds, grooves, joints, slots, perforations, slants, notches and ripples by means of autonomous sculptures and reliefs. Significant relations occur when they are primed, painted and arranged in the space, which are explored in isolation and sometimes foregoing their initial function. Forms suggestive of storm maps, of mapping the moving air. The word ‘collage’ used for an accumulation of lines with morphological echoes traced on sheets involves the cutting-and-pasting of materials, puts together an illustration, and also indicates the step between two and three dimensions, with those being different ways of pondering on a same occurrence.
Leo Burge (London, 1991) studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and KABK (The Hague, Netherlands) between 2009 and 2013. In 2015, they participated in the experimental workshop Kalostra (Donostia-San Sebastián). Their work combines drawing, relief, freestanding sculpture, and writing, as well as the spaces where these take presence. They often process refined lines of materials such as steel and carbon, tapes, and the textures or imprints that emerge as a result. They consider the support/surface aspect of a project as both a starting point and an end in itself. Burge explores form empirically and phenomenologically while questioning the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. In recent years, they have exhibited in duo and solo shows, including Estructuras Constantes (Jorge Lopez Gallery, 2022-3), Display Series 3 (Bulegoa Z/B, 2022), Metofam and Petal (2020 and 2018, Carreras Múgica Gallery), and have published literary essays and reports for their own and collaborators’ exhibitions. They have also participated in various programs, such as T-Festa Tabakalera (Donostia) in 2016, Ertibil Bizkaia in 2016 and 2022, and Eremuak in 2016 and 2018 with the exhibitions Erromantiko and Bi Dos Two, as well as the Halfhouse residency in Barcelona.