Elena Mendizabal: Elena Mendizabal. Sculpture | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz
The exhibition provides an extensive overview of the work of the artist Elena Mendizabal by focusing on the pieces she produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
The exhibition provides an extensive overview of the work of the artist Elena Mendizabal (Donostia, 1960) by focusing on the pieces she produced in the 1980s and 1990s, a period of time that the Museum will programme a comprehensive analysis through various projects in 2020.
As the title of the exhibition indicates, sculpture has been the main medium with which the artist has developed her work, although it has also occasionally been displayed in sets of photographs, drawings or collages, major works of which have been incorporated into this exhibition.
The Museum’s rooms dedicated to this show contain almost a hundred works and also include documents and photographs of several projects that now no longer exist, an investigative study that helps us to explore the various aspects and current interests of Mendizabal’s career. After an initial space dedicated to contextualising her most recent work, the exhibition delves into the years during which Mendizabal constructed her discourse, thus helping to reinterpret a historical period in which the creative context of the Basque Country was incredibly vibrant and visible.
