Exhibitions Surfilm Festibal 7
This year we have included two exhibitions within the AMSTEL Surfilm Festibal, both of them are paintings and from two artists that are very close to us all.
Take a look through our exhibitions.
Pablo Ugartexea exhibitionSala Nocolor
Paseo Colón 37, Donostia
08/05/2009 09/07/2009
www.nocolor.es
www.pablougartetxea.com
The city and the sea, architecture and waves: surfurbanism.
The city of San Sebastián has always attracted me not so much for its decaying Belle Époque aura but for its powerful storms that send cars flying all over the place and destroys street furniture. On the other hand in the last years I’ve been surprised by the changes in the Gros part of the city, not so much because of the Kursaal but for the explosion of surfing. It’s a part of town that reminds me a lot of some Californian surf cities but without losing its donostiarra personality: surfers crossing the streets dressed in their wetsuits board under hand, surf and skate shops, new young art galleries and even a bar or two that reminds of Santa Monica…
In my last exhibitions there’s a latent threat, you can feel the catastrophe, burning buildings, massive waves wiping out entire cities… I think that all that’s got to do with this traumatic change of century that we have endured: this crazy weather that is bring hurricanes to Europe, the economic crisis, 11-S… all this makes for an atmosphere of apocalypse that permeates me and shows on my paintings.
PABLO UGARTETXEA (Bilbao, 1967)
I studied Fine Arts at Bilbao University, London and Amsterdam.
I mix drawing, photography, oil painting and textures in my paintings… I don’t believe in the disciplines of the different techniques. I’m very demanding with the materials: I buy hand made paper in India and the ink in London.
Among my favourite artists I have to name Piccasso (the inventor of the collage), David Hockney, Andy Warhol... And Matisse’s and Rothko’s colour.
I do art exhibitions regularly in Spain, France and the U.S.A..
Asier Elcoroiribe exhibitionAquarium Donostia – San Sebastián
Pl. Carlos Blasco de Imaz
15/05/2009 – 14/06/2009
This exhibition pays tribute to the figure and works of Asier Elcoroiribe Lerma, a painter from San Sebastian. The paintings shown consist of a small selection aimed to represent the whole of this great artist’s creations.
All along these years, Asier Elcoroiribe painted and presented his paintings to his closest friends, family and a faithful group of people who admired his work.
Now all of them have joined efforts to share with the public in this city some of the pieces created by Asier that they cherish so much.
Most of the paintings are acrylic although he also used oil, watercolor and mixed techniques. The ocean, the waves and Donostia-San Sebastian are the subjects that most inspired this artist, they are the central theme of the exhibition, nevertheless it includes as well other pieces such as portraits, landscapes etc.
Asier Elcoroiribe’s life revolved around paintings and surfing. His passing last year meant a great loss for everybody around him.
His way of understanding life has left a lasting trace on all of those who met him.
His works are part of the legacy Asier left us and he will always be remembered through them.
