- Cruz, Ángela de la (1965- )
- Angela de la Cruz was born in A Coruña in Galicia, northwest Spain in 1965 and lives and works in London. She studied Philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1987) before moving to London, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London, UK (1994) and an MA in Sculpture and Critical Theory from the Slade, London, UK (1996).
Angela de la Cruz’s work is characterised by the dialogue she manages to establish between painting and sculpture via her treatment of the canvas and stretcher. She creates chiefly monochromatic paintings, which fracture, distort and turn on themselves, and gives them a 3D feeling they lacked before. The painting is thus striped of its ‘aura’ of grandeur.
Angela de la Cruz’s work feeds on both cultural and artistic references like Goya, Arte Povera, the writings of Jacques Derrida, as well as biographical elements and reflections on the pictoric event and space. Since the end of 1990s she has taken part in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, and her work is represented in collections such as Fundació La Caixa in Barcelona, Moderna Musset in Stockholm, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Tate Collection and Fundación Barrié in Galicia.
Angela de la Cruz was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2010 and is the recipient of the 2017 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, granted by the Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sport.
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