“The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents June Crespo. Vascular, an ambitious exhibition devoted to the work of June Crespo (b. 1982, Pamplona), one of the most important emerging figures on the European art scene today. The show brings together a selection of recent works, as well as a large-scale sculptural assemblage designed specifically for the Museum’s exhibition space. Both spatially and conceptually, this presentation is planned as a turning point in the exhibitions Crespo has held to date.

June Crespo’s sculptural practice is voluntarily situated at the intersection of multiple pathways and contemporary lines of inquiry. On the one hand, she forges a transformative dialogue with the concepts that have characterized Basque art in recent decades, ‘mobile pairs’ like abstraction and gesture, the tragic and the opaque, and lightness and strangeness. She also addresses issues whose urgency was missing from major debates until relatively recently, particularly regarding feminist sensibility and awareness of the devastation that modern lifestyles have wrought on the natural environment, which is now fully subjugated to industrial and post-industrial production and reproduction cycles, as well as the abrasions of the Anthropocene.” — Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

June Crespo. Vascular was curated by Manuel Cirauqui.

Images courtesy Guggenheim Bilbao.