ANGELA DE LA CRUZ (La Coruña, 1965). "Nothing... Lot 77

ANGELA DE LA CRUZ (La Coruña, 1965). "Nothing VII", 2004. Oil on canvas. Size: 85 x 100 x 30 cm. In "Nothing VII" Ángela de la Cruz incorporates self-destruction into painting and plastically develops an expanded concept of pictorial language, making the classifications between sculpture and two-dimensional abstraction porous. Ángela de la Cruz herself stated for the Galería Helga de Alvear, with which she has been working since 2011, "The moment I cut the canvas, I get rid of the grandiosity of the history of painting". Her paintings become sculptures, and with them she establishes a sculpture-human body link, in which the rupture of the canvas refers to emotional fractures. Ángela de la Cruz studied Philosophy and Arts at the University of Santiago de Compostela, although she soon moved to London, where she furthered her studies at Chelsea College of Art, Goldsmith College and the Slade School of Fine Arts. In 2010 she was the first Spaniard to be nominated for the Turner Prize for her exhibition "After", which she presented at the Candem Center, and she is currently a lecturer at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, where she lives and works. In 2017 she received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas.