Angela Cuadra

Angela Cuadra - Grutesco I

Technique: Fragments of acrylic paint adhered on canvas

Artist Biography: Angela CuadraMadrid, 1978---Angela CuadraÁngela Cuadra investigates images that deal with concealment techniques used throughout history, in a broad phenomenological study of invisibility, examining the tensions between the natural and the artificial, the public and the private, the whole and the parts, the essential and the superfluous, the artist uses a material with pre-existing historical and semantic charges to reconvert and re-signify it. Based on collage and approached from intuition, her works induce compositions in which the found material is barely elaborated with the protagonism of the forms themselves through their juxtaposition to other materials, the special focus on the dialogue between fragments, on the emotion that arises when finding chords of color, shape or texture, resemble the perception of her work to that of a musical composition. To make language without literature, to make music without melody, to make painting without painting. To make by building from the base of what is given, of what is found in the margins.He has had exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Centro de Arte Joven, Centro Cultural Conde Duque and Centro Centro Centro, in Madrid; Today Museum, in Beijing; Centro del Carmen, Valencia; Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; Fundación Cultural de Providencia, Providencia (Chile); Fundación María José Jové, A Coruña; Centro Galegode Arte Contemporani, Barcelona; Fundación Cultural de Providencia, Providencia (Chile); Fundación María José Jové, A Coruña; Centro Galegode Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; International Center of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Frans Masereel Centrum (FMC), Kasterlee (Belgium); International Print Triennial Society in Krakow (SMTG), Krakow; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU), Rijeka (Croatia) and Foundation Tallinn Print Triennial (TPT), Tallinn.