14 november, 2024 – 2 february, 2025
Rooms 4 and 5. Room Philip West. First floor.
On Thursday, November 14, at 8:00 p.m., the Eugenio Granell Foundation will open the exhibition 3 descensos GZ by the artist PABLO ORZA. It is curated by Eduardo Valiña and can be visited until February 2, 2025.
Pablo Orza earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1993 and continued his studies in Valencia’s Polytechnic University. In the mid-nineties he worked at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, thereby starting his professional career as an artist as well as participating in a wide variety of projects throughout Galicia. He participated in Lucio Muñoz’s workshop at the MACUF and organized various exhibitions in different Galician cities. He also began a national and international career in Italy, New York and Portugal, among other countries.
Human beings’ connectivity with themselves and with what surrounds them, and the relationship between Art and Life marks the common thread of his work. In this way, Orza sometimes plans the artistic work from a ritual point of view through connectivity and its forms.
The artist works with a wide range of techniques and media such as collage, drawing, painting, photography, writing, installations, sculpture, music or performance, among others. A work marked by freedom, where the abstract merges with the figurative to create a change in the way we relate to the world.
With references such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Joseph Beuys, Antoni Tapies, Jason Rhoades or Cy Twombly, among others, the artist constantly reformulates the conception of his output based on intrinsic concepts and other external contributions, where the territory functions as a connecting point, sometimes with a magnetic trigger that facilitates the creative act, as is the case with the Pico Sacro.
Starting from the interrelationship between painting and sculpture, he initiated an avenue of investigation that continues to the present day, in which fabric, wood and words merge in a multiplicity of options, including waste and the relationship with industrial material, to provide a hybrid universe that places him in a differentiated plastic conception within contemporary output.
Orza proposes an interdisciplinary project where territory, identity and self-reference converge in a space of representation of their own, forming a creative place separate from what is established in order to create links by means of a wide-ranging initiative made up of different sensory spheres.
