Angela de La Cruz

Angela de La Cruz Cv

At first glance, de la Cruz's paintings appear to have been vandalised or flagrantly abused. Mangled stretchers, slashed canvases, twisted and violated, are hung on the wall like macabre trophies, and yet it is this deliberate and systematic desecration of the canvases, which informs the end result. Emotionally raw, yet canny and sharply ironic, de la Cruz confronts the 'problem' with painting by incorporating its very destruction into the work itself. "The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting."Violent, unapologetic and often darkly humorous, her work unabashedly exposes a visceral emotionalism, breaking the barriers of the established norms of painting. Implicit is the sense that a scene of frenetic violent activity has just taken place leaving in its wake the strangely paradoxical feeling of spent energy and a sense of calm; a visual catharsis.
She has been nominated for 2010 Turner Prize Shortlist.

Angela de la Cruz lives and works in London, UK.
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Angela de la Cruz
Helga de Alvear, Madrid
20 January - 5 March 2011
Helga de Alvear

Angela de la Cruz
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
5 October 2010 - 3 January 2011
Turner Prize Tate Britain

Angela de la Cruz
After, Camden Arts Centre, London
1 April - 30 May 2010
Camden Arts Centre

Angela de la Cruz
Trabalho Work, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
2006

Angela de la Cruz
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
28 April - 18 September 2005
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo

Angela de la Cruz
Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, MARCO, Spain
24 September - 5 December 2004
MARCO

Angela de La Cruz Catalogues and Editions

Angela de La Cruz Images

Compressed (Blue) 2011 Oil and acrylic on aluminium 123 x 70 x 60 cm

Compressed (White) 2011 Oil and acrylic on aluminium 123 x 70 x 60 cm

Compressed (Violet) 2011 Oil and acrylic on aluminium 123 x 70 x 60 cm

Compressed (Cream) 2011 Oil and acrylic on aluminium 123 x 70 x 60 cm

Dirty (White) 7 2011 Oil and acrylic on aluminium 54 x 46 x 28 cm

Deflated (White) 20 2011 Oil and acrylic on canvas 153 x 180 cm

Extension (Cream/Brown) 2011 Oil and acrylic on canvas 123 x 40 x 13 cm

Transfer (Ivory) 2011 Sofa, wooden box and chair 80 x 200 x 168 cm (installed)

Hung 7, 2010 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm

Flat, 2009 mixed media, ready made chair 140 x 50 cm (approx)

Stuck, 2010 dimensions variable

Self, 1997 chair and two paintings

Larger than Life, 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas 260 x 400 x 1050 cm

Nothing 1, 1998 Oil on canvas 33 x 72 x 69 cm

Upright (3 leg chair), 2004 Mixed media 130 x 50 x 45 cm

Clutter IX (blue), 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas and metal 188 x 98 x 40 cm

Vertical V (yellow/pink), 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas 181 x 46 x 24 cm

Clutter wardrobes, 2004 Wood Dimensions variable

Still Life (Table), 2000 Wood and oil and canvas 90 x 105 x 100 cm