Amaya Suberviola

Amaya Suberviola - STP-018

Technique: Oil, felt-tip pen and enamel on linen

Artist Biography: Mendavia, Navarra, 1993. Lives and works in Bilbao. Amaya has a degree in Art, specializing in painting and graphics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV)/EHU and a master's degree in painting also from the UPV/EHU in 2016. In 2015 he received the Scholarship-Residence Young Artists Pensioned at the Quintanar Palace, Segovia. In 2015 and 2016 he receives the Scholarship for the Extension of Artistic Studies of Navarra. In 2016, he receives the Landscape Scholarship-Residence in Altea. In 2017 she received the First Prize in Painting Hotel Carlton, Bilbao, is selected by our gallery in the project JOVEN LLAMA JOVEN and obtains, as a result of this, the Scholarship-residence Nautilus, Lanzarote. In 2021 she received the BilbaoArte Scholarship with studio assignment, Bilbao, the Basque Government's artistic production scholarship, the Ertibil Bizkaia selection award and the VEGAP production scholarship. Amaya Suberviola's work is an exercise in responding to clichés that are part of her generation, perhaps more relevant in hers than in previous ones. Amaya is part of a group of painters who are gradually representing the return of painting to the place it has never intrinsically ceased to occupy, but which in recent years has been at best, obviated. It is true that with the wide variety of media and digital facilities, it is easier to make interpretations of reality through other media in contemporary art, such as video or photography. However, painting -as well as drawing- have a kind of preeminence over other practices for the simple fact of being a more immediate exercise (without too many interveners); this preeminence can play in favor and against, since the same freedom that the painter has is proportional to the limitation of the medium. For this reason, Suberviola's painting makes a very relevant and pertinent incision in painting as a representative of our current context. The core or central axis of his work at present is the Pantallas Project. It is born from the research around a method of configuring images through different windows within the computer screen. The desktop is used as a virtual work table and the compositions are materialized in plastic works, translating the digital image into a pictorial language. The windows are image container modules that can be enlarged or reduced, superimposed, mirrored or any of the limited actions that a computer preview allows. The goal is to structure a composition that results in a concrete image that meets your objectives. On a technical level, he is interested in discovering what aesthetic qualities this work process provides to painting and in creating paintings from a world and a language that is not their own. The initiative of this proposal appears when an association is established between the formal characteristics that occur between this way of generating sketches and the qualities that already interested Suberviola in painting. For example, the representation of space and its capacity for cancellation through the superimposition of images, or the construction of the motif within the limits of the frame itself, as if it were a capsule painting or continent, as happens with the windows inside the screens of our technological devices, where different limited realities coexist.