Aluminium foil
Tururu!
Aitor Ruiz de Eginorenerakusketa
Non: Bastero Kulturgunea, Andoain.
When: Until 28 February.
Aitor Ruiz de Egino (Hernani, 1971) began his artistic activity based on the drawings he was given. These two dimensions reached the three dimensions through ceramics. In the sculpture he has also worked iron, bronze and stone, but his favorite material is aluminum, a material that is not common among Basque artists. It's a brilliant metal, living a long time without oxidizing, ideal for imagining life. And the hand of aluminum has been translated into two dimensions. Tururu! The exhibition contains 40 aluminium drawings.
In these paintings, he uses intense colors, basic colors, yellow, red, blue -- not to be confused. He doesn't want to work colors too hard, because what matters is form, a form of clean metal lines.
Most drawings are placed on the white, clean and vertical walls of the exhibition room, aligned and straight, sets of the same size on each of the walls. But the aluminum drawings of Ruiz de Egino are not flat, they are wrinkled, they leave the wall, breaking the cleaning of the bracket and joining the asymmetrical container of Bastero.Las curved forms of cement in the exhibition room
are also a good backdrop for sculpture work. The exhibition consists of 18 sculptures, all of them cast aluminum. The viewer wonders what's in front of it. What structure is this? An animal? A human being? Both at once? What are these arms of man or the branches of what he was? They have a surreal tint, a mystery that the author seeks.
Tururu! The works they compose are new, most of them carried out in the last year, but do not break the continuity of the work of Hernaniarra. Ruiz de Egino, in 2011, made an exhibition entitled Anthropozooforms, a name that perfectly defines the ways in which we find ourselves. Or we could also call them anthropozoophytic forms, because the stretched limbs of these human animals have a lot of the roots and branches of the trees. And in general, Aitor Ruiz de Egino's work has a lot to do with the Horn. His work, filtered by the artist's head, is inspired by Mount Adarra and has a series of living landscapes.
The artist works at Hernani. In the Zikuzulo workshop you have in the Zikuñaga neighborhood. Hernani has had a close relationship with metal since ancient times and Aitor Ruiz de Egino has also been linked to metal since he was young, as his father worked in a foundry. In the area www.aitor-ruiz-de-eguino.com you can see everything you need to complete the artworks (you can see a video that gathers the whole process of making the sculptures), has at your disposal a scrap to collect material, a workshop to melt aluminum and a painting to paint metal. All about the Horn.
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