Leo Burge
Burge works by finding ways to manufacture folds, striations, joints, grooves, perforations, slants, notches and undulations through free-standing sculptures and reliefs. By priming, painting and arranging them in space some meaningful relationships occur that I wish to explore in isolation, sometimes disregarding their initial function. Shapes that can suggest maps of squalls, cartographies of air in movement. The word collage for an accumulation of lines with morphological resonances traced on sheets of paper implies the cut-and-paste of materials, forms an illustration and also indicates the passage between two and three dimensions, these being different ways of pondering on the same event.
Leo Burge (London, 1991) lives and works in Bilbao. Between 2009 and 2013 he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU in Leioa and at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in The Hague (The Netherlands). In 2015 he participated in Kalostra, experimental art school (Donostia-San Sebastián). In 2019 he published the texts La casa al borde de la soledad in issue 6 of the magazine Eremuak and Contando Sílabas as part of the exhibition Loa Ots at CentroCentro (Madrid). He has had a solo exhibition at the Torre de Ariz gallery El verano de Blinky y la curva legítima (Basauri, 2017). His work has also been shown collectively at the Centro Azkuna Bi, dos, two (Bilbao, 2018), at the Sala Rekalde Ertibil (Bilbao, 2016), T-Festa (San Sebastián 2016), Gio Bat (Bilbao 2015) and Galería Cosmos (Bilbao 2014). In 2016 he received the 1st Ertibil Prize from the Provincial Council of Vizcaya for young artists.
