Esperanza Zabala
Esperanza Zabala (Eibar, Gipuzkoa, 1974), is a Spanish Basque artist. She works on painting, sculpture, graphic design and installations. She learned the rudiments of art in Liceo di Brera, in Milan.
Esperanza Zabala
- Born
- 1974 · Eibar.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- University of Salamanca
- Languages
- Spanish
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After studying graphic design in San Sebastian, she graduated in fine arts at the University of Salamanca. Zabala has taken part in many individual and collective exhibitions.
Esperanza Zabala's paintings can be considered neo-expressionists. Her style could be considered close to Jose Luis Zumeta's, German expressionists', CoBrA's or Basquiat's. Her paints, which at a first glance seem to be semiabstract, hide figurative images. She uses deep and powerful colours, and mixes oil, acrylic and other medias in her works. Sometimes, she uses embroidered bed sheets instead of regular canvas.
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Other disciplines
Among the works of Esperanza Zabala can be found a series of installations and performances of action painting in which she uses her own body as a tool. In those works she prints on paper her body previously smeared with red paint, following lines of work such as Ana Mendieta and Yves Klein. In addition, the artist has also made artist's books and serigraphs.
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Life and career
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1974
Esperanza Zabala born at Eibar.
Sculpture
Her sculpture covers topics such as feminism, body, sex, religion, death and fashion. She has taken three main lines. On the one hand, works based on objects, toys, religious images or everyday items. Through this work invites the social analysis, criticism and reflection of quotidian -fashion, consumerism, etc.. Another line is formed by her polyurethane foam sculptures, following the technique she learned from Enrique Marty. Composed by sculptures of people in real size -some of them fragmented- and anthropomorphic pieces of organic textures. These sculptures cover topics such as the process of construction-deconstruction of the body, defragmented body, skin, etc. Some of these works can be related to those by Damien Hirst or Gunther von Hagens. From 2014 she begins to combine sculpture with Wi-Fi technologies and streaming. Through these conceptual works, in addition to treat the network as an artwork, she calls for reflection on the consciousness of the body.
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- 1.Onandia Garate, Mikel. Artea Durangaldean gaur / Arte en el Duranguesado hoy. Astarloa Kulturgintza & Ayuntamiento de Durango. 82. 2013. 978-84-616-6190-9.
- 2.Esperanza Zabala. Biography. Artworks Esperanza Zabala. July 11, 2014.
- 3.Esperanza Zabala. Paintings. Artworks Esperanza Zabala. July 12, 2014.
- 4.F.Z., N. Ikusi makusi, zer ikusten duzu?. Deia. 2005.
- 5.Esperanza Zabala "Minu nimi on ilu" 13.-- 25. november 2007. 2007.
- 6.Onandia Garate, Mikel. Okela zelatariak. Berria. December 16, 2014.
- 7.Esperanza Zabala. Installations. Artworks Esperanza Zabala. July 12, 2014.
- 8.González, J.M. Zelaiko jokalari mutuak. Mugalari. 274. 2004.
- 9.Marín, Maribel. Una galería presenta tres muestras de vanguardia en paralelo a Manifesta. El País. July 10, 2004.
- 10.Morquecho, Félix. Poliuretano, pintura e internet. Diario Vasco. December 21, 2014.
- 11.Irigoien Aizpitarte, Odei. Andrazkoen sormenaren lekuko. Berria. April 9, 2013.
- 12.E., I. Ibilbide berria hasi du Beittu arte galeriak. Anboto. June 29, 2007.
- 13.Labeaga, Izaskun. La galería Beittu hace balance y apuesta por la edición de obra gráfica. Gara. June 24, 2007.
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- Onandia Garate, Mikel. Artea Durangaldean gaur / Arte en el Duranguesado hoy. Astarloa Kulturgintza & Ayuntamiento de Durango. 82–85. 2013. 978-84-616-6190-9.
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