Untitled (2004)
Sculpture. Mixed media on foam board
28 × 28 × 30 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2004.86.1
Sin título [Untitled] is part of the processes that would end with the production of the Paintbrush Theatre project that was completed in 2010. The artist used her residency at the BilbaoArte Foundation to experiment around the relationship of painting, the plane, the figure and the background, and the three dimensions; in this case, that becomes a model of a space used for performing arts.
Fullaondo always starts from the desire to paint a picture, even though the action drives the project, which allows new forms of creation – different channels through which to continue working – to be developed. Making a collage, cutting, gluing, pulling off, drawing, painting over and tearing up many drawings are part of her creative process. The final aim is to produce an image that she finds interesting. Shapes and stains that are repeated and systematised and which are seeking a context. A context that becomes a stage by the mere fact of lifting two drawings. And drawings that acquire volume on wood or foam board, creating a leisure venue that stretches out and spreads the painting towards the installation.
Usoa Fullaondo (Getxo, 1979). Artist, teacher and researcher. PhD from the Painting Department at the University of the Basque Country in 2010. Fullaondo combines her lecturing at the UPV-EHU with her work as an artist. She has taken part in different international, state and regional exhibitions, including Nordés, Luis Adelantado, Espacio Alexandra, Montehermoso, Okela, Bilbaoarte Foundation, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Cultuurcentrum in Hasselt. She has received grants from the Basque Government, Bizkaia Provincial Government and the Etxepare Institute, and awards in national contests of the ilk of Injuve. She has completed residencies at Villa Empain (Brussels), Banff Centre (Alberta), Senselab (Montreal), Oslo and Akhersus University College of Applied Sciences (Oslo) and the Bilbaoarte Foundation (Bilbao). Her publications include Sentimiento popular (2022), Un Atletismo Afectivo (2016) and the article What Can a Process Do? A Passage from Ritual to Rituality published in the Journal for Artistic Research (2019).