Pello Irazu
Since his entry into the sculpture scene of the eighties, some of the keys to the work of Pello Irazu lie in the ideas of presence, material, color, surface, scale and perception, elaborating the hybrid and objectual character that his work has had in each of his different periods. Irazu's career has been characterized by his dedication to the problems of sculpture with an extremely open character that, in the material plane, is conveyed through a multitude of formats, materials and devices, also incorporating expressions considered graphic as drawing -in its broadest concept- photography or mural painting. On the other hand, in the field of references to reality -to the set of representations that configure it-, his work is plagued by slippages between the material, plastic sign and the rest of the signs circulating in the social sphere. The dimensions of the varied expressions of his work are nothing but the concentration of a relational space of multiple resonances always crossed by the sculptural.
Pello Irazu (Andoain, 1963) lives and works in Bilbao. He graduated in sculpture from the Basque Country University, he won the ICARO Prize in 1988 and a Fulbright Award in 1990. That year he was selected for Aperto at Venice Biennale. His work is featured at public collections such as MACBA, La Caixa Foundation, Mumok (Vienna), Reina Sofía Museum, Patio Herreriano Museum, CA2M and Marugame Hirai Museum (Japón) among aothers. He had a major retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in 2017.
