Prudencio Irazábal

Prudencio Irazábal

His work starts from an analysis of the origin of painting together with a reflection on abstract currents since the mid-twentieth century and which leads him to initiate what soon after would be revealed as an essay for an epistemology of stratification. He transforms abstract chromatic ideas into blocks of layers of paint that he first treats as sculptural objects and that he soon integrates into the same painting creating a dense accumulation of highly visible material on the sides.

The chromaticism of this mass of paint is then reunited in the smooth and subtly nuanced surface of the painting based on thin translucent layers spread out in uneven thicknesses. This perversion of the premises of processual art through the appropriation of emblems belonging to archeology and geology gives way since the beginning of the new century to more expansive and vibrant fields of color that project an interior light apparently indebted to the screen, but which is due really to a very precise attention to the specificity of the materials that it uses.

Prudencio Irazábal, Untitled 35LL, 2012
Acrylic on canvas
108 x 152 cm
Prudencio Irazábal, Untitled 5Z2, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 145 cm
Prudencio Irazábal, Untitled 2A1, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
56 x 77 cm
Prudencio Irazabal, Untitled 23A, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 124 cm
Prudencio Irazábal, Untitled 4Z2, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Prudencio Irazábal, Untitled 2B2, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 145 cm