Amaya Suberviola

Amaya Suberviola - STP-018

Técnica: Oil, marker and enamel on linen

Biografía del Artista: Mendavia, Navarra, 1993. Lives and works in Bilbao. Amaya graduated in Art, specialising in painting and graphics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV)/EHU and obtained a Master's degree in painting also from the UPV/EHU in 2016. In 2015 she received the Young Artists Retired Residence Grant at the Quintanar Palace, Segovia. In 2015 and 2016 she received the Navarra Scholarship for the Extension of Artistic Studies. In 2016, she received the Landscape Residence Grant in Altea. In 2017 she received the First Prize for Painting at the Hotel Carlton, Bilbao, was selected by our gallery for the JOVEN LLAMA JOVEN project and, as a result, obtained the Nautilus Residence Grant, Lanzarote. In 2021 he received the BilbaoArte, Bilbao, Bilbao Studio Grant, the Basque Government Artistic Production Grant, the Ertibil Bizkaia Selection Award and the VEGAP Production Grant. Amaya Suberviola's work is an attempt to respond 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 that it has intrinsically never ceased to occupy, but which in recent years has been, at best, ignored. It is true that with the extensive variety of digital media and facilities, it is easier to make interpretations of reality through other supports in contemporary art, such as video or photography. However, painting –as well as drawing– has 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 for 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 current work is the Screens Project. It was born from research into 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-containing modules that can be enlarged or reduced, superimposed, reflected or any of the limited actions that a computer preview allows. The goal is to structure a composition that results in a specific image that meets his objectives. On a technical level, he is interested in discovering what aesthetic qualities this work process provides to painting and creating paintings from a world and a language that is not their own. The initiative for 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 within 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 container, just as occurs with the windows within the screens of our technological devices, where different limited realities coexist.