- Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
- Fabriano Tiepolo 290gr Paper
- Image Size: 37x40 cm
- Total Size: 64x50 cm
- Date: 2024
- 50 units
- Ref.: G36912
CPS FIG Bilbao Residency Award 2023
(*) Ohean means "in bed", in Euskera, Basque language.
Critical notes
AN INVITATION TO THE EVASION
Irati Retolaza, graduated in Art from UPV/EHU, completed her training with a Master's degree in Graphic Work at the Centro Internacional da Estampa Contempornea CIEC and in several Seminars in Contemporary Art and Graphic Arts at the BilbaoArte Foundation. His work was selected in important competitions and events such as the XVI International Graphic Art Prize. In 2023 he received the CPS FIG Bilbao 2023 Residency Award.
The artist values memory with expression both in drawing and engraving, in a language between abstraction and dreamlike figuration that involves movement, as happens in the sequence It is something cinematic and with a surreal atmosphere that it presents to us today and where in a room with a bed in the center that decides to levitate, a story is told that appears to us as an unknown episode in the lives of anonymous lovers. The reality of everyday life, the beings and objects that populate it, are there. completely stripped of their usual vision to compose unusual and extravagant paintings, a true invitation to come. evasion routine and everyday boredom.
Maria João Fernandes
AICa - International Association of Art Critics
