Carreras
Mugica

ROSE TRRACTION is Basque artist June Crespo’s first solo exhibition in France. Partly rooted in the tradition of contemporary Basque sculpture, his work draws on the friction between materials and the expressive possibilities this creates. The exhibition will mainly feature works produced especially for his exhibition at Crédac. Curatorship: Claire Le Restif.

June Crespo has developed a unique style of writing that combines assemblages, experimental use of images, moulding techniques, and industrial and organic materials. Intuitively perceiving the free associations of forms that everyday objects allow, the artist strips them of their uses and meanings, retaining only parts of them, from which she extracts their plastic possibilities. Reduced to fragments, tubes, and shells that she moulds and assembles, these elements become the different layers that make up her sculptures. Tenderness and gentle gestures are at the heart of this process, whose traces and imperfections she preserves. June Crespo creates a dialogue between materials, playing with dissonances to bring out sensitivity and poetry.

Although the meaning of his work only becomes apparent in retrospect, it resonates deeply, without ever mentioning it, with the exploration of the body. Fragmented, recomposed, it is implicitly present in the abstract elements that the artist composes, the materials and forms, their rigidity and flexibility, their falls and elevations, their brutality and delicacy.

The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the support of the Henry Moore Foundation and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). It has been organised with the support of Galería CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; P420 Gallery, Bologna; and Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid.