2023-04-20 20:16:41
INTERESTRATES
Asun Requena Zaratiegui
Nora Aurrekoetxea. Marina González Guerreiro and Miren Doiz exhibit their proposals at the Jorge Oteiza Museum in Alzuza (Navarra), an exhibition curated by JP Huércanos. The exhibition catalogue, plus an artists’ book, if it does not have all the formal information, becomes a declaration of intent. Folded and not paged, it creates a stratified inhabited space without beginning or end. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari see the concept as transcodings and intersections that occur in the creative process. In this case, and since the starting point is a work by the sculptor Jorge Oteiza, the reverse side of Unamuno’s portrait, they interpret his personal vision, not the portrait and the void.
Miren Doiz occupies the placesomething unusual in her since she usually occupies the no place, and surprises us with a series of objects that she finds at random, waste materials, uniting them in works, in this case a chromatic range that moves from red, through brown to black, and on some occasions orange. The pieces of paintings of her objects have different characteristics: Thickness, matte or gloss finish, transparency, clean cuts or casual finishes of inopportune breaks and fragmentations. Their unions are transparent. Some of the malleable, soft materials of it. The artist uses her own language and even winks at some work of art, such as cubist still lifes, which is not usual for her. Doiz is not interested in leaving clues to the viewer, but rather in experimentation. The paint and the use of color act as a coagulating material for a continuous process of overlaps and encounters, which in the intervention helps to break the geometry of the room and blends the bodies with the place.says Huercanos. Doiz does not paint, but we could talk about the concept of expansive paint applied to his creations. The room as a space, as designed by Sáenz de Oiza, is an object work in itself. Thus, an effect is produced Russian doll, object within object, space within space. You just have to admire his first work when you enter the room.
The three creators, are intertwined or interlazan in the museography entering his works in the space of the next room as it happens to Doiz with Aurrekoetxea, and Doiz with Marina González Guerreiro. In the latter case, it is more latent because the woman from Navarra uses paint and not paint on the exhibition space of the González Guerreiro shelf.
Aurrekoetxea works on the identity of the portrait eliminating the face as an individual identity element. She works resin molds of various scalps of people and animals such as goats, without gender. It is not known. Sometimes the replicas are repeated and they are confronted in pairs or in a grid. Her exhibition space rises and falls in straight lines that hold her work, like the golden bars with reproduction of white wigs that elevate us to the show. Light is very important in her way of painting. A skylight, not a Malevich unit, changes the museographic composition, and at rush hour, twelve (two o’clock), a little higher and a little lower, as if it were a Romanesque work, lets the light in and illuminates the sacred space.
The big surprise are the creations by Marina González with lived objects, soft materials that tell us about her vital experience with her own materials that tell us about her. The narration becomes artistic work. Transparencies, plastics, chocolate wrapping papers, objects of romantic origin, flowers, encapsulated wedding rings. The pastel wax melt tarts, the neat and rusty used coins, reminding us that all history is not novel by Corín Tellado in aroma of illustrated notebooks for girls. Little lighting and a lot of visual poetry in these small and medium format sculptures, which are reminiscent of different religions, including Dürer’s engravings for numerology. Paper, paper and paper, a lot of paper, marine motifs and various hooks that transport us to a dreamy marine world. Without a doubt, something new, not seen.
Nora Aurrekoetxea, Miren Doiz and Marina González Guerreiro, Interstratos, Oteiza Museum, Alzuza, Navarra. From March 17 to June 4, 2023.
More information:
https://www.museooteiza.org/exposiciones/interestratos-nora-aurrekoetxea-miren-doiz-marina-gonzalez-guerreiro-17-marzo-4-junio/
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