This video, produced by Art Viewer, takes a journey through June Crespo’s oeuvre, including recent exhibitions and her working process. Over a year, we accompanied the artist to her studio, home, and foundry in the Basque Country, where she lives and works, and had conversations with her.
Since her beginnings, June Crespo has approached the expressive possibilities of materials, addressing themes such as corporeality, architecture, and the transformation of everyday objects. Her sculptures, often monumental and robust in appearance, are characterized by a balance between solidity and fragility that invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between body and space.
In her works, Crespo usually keeps the traces of the process visible, such as the remains left during the casting or the natural textures of materials, thus highlighting the importance of the process in the final result. The artist turns industrial and everyday materials into sculptural forms that transcend their origin and invites us to re-read space and the object, playing with perceptions of weight, balance, and scale.
June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. Obtained her BFA from the Basque Country University (Bilbao) in 2005 and completed a two years residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam) in 2017. Her solo shows include Vascular (2024) at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum; they saw their house turn into fields (2023) at CA2M, Madrid; Acts of Pulse (2022) at P420, Bologna; entre alguien y algo (2022) at CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) Artium, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz; No Osso (2019) at Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto; Ser Dos (2017) and Cosa y tú (2015) at CarrerasMugica gallery in Bilbao. Recently her work has also been shown in group exhibitions such as L´écorce (2023) at CRAC-Alsace; The Milk of Dreams (2022) at Venice Biennale; Fata Morgana (2022) Jeu de Paume (Paris) and The Point of Sculpture (2021) at Fundación Miró (Barcelona).
In April 2023, we visited Kasper Bosman at his home and studio in Brussels. Our conversation focused on the stories behind his work, process, latest projects, and his background as an artist, including his childhood.
Kasper Bosmans, born in Lommel (Belgium) in 1990, employs storytelling by creating narratives with multiple references from different cultural and historical sources. From an intuitive anthropological approach, he examines contemporary life’s vestiges of local traditions and mythological symbols.
Bosmans has gained recognition for his unique and thought-provoking pieces that explore themes such as cultural identity, tradition, and belief systems. His work often combines elements of the past with contemporary perspectives, creating a multi-layered visual experience.
Francesco De Prezzo examines the logics and structures that configure the exhibition space and its different forms of mediation. His work is activated by the interweaving of the presence, absence, substitution, and almost erasement of the work of art as such.
De Prezzo carefully explores the layout and arrangement of the space, using it as a stage on which the viewers circulate in search of clues and fragments that will help them potentially form and construct the artwork. Through a well-constructed narrative, the artist places the object creating situations of ambivalence and questioning the concept of exhibition-making.
Following his project “Placeholder Sculptures” at FORM (Wageningen, The Netherlands), Art Viewer talks to Francesco De Prezzo about his working process.
The documentaries of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, minimal and postminimal art, body shakers, the lyrebird song, bodybuilding photography, and butch aesthetics all find themselves matching up in the work of artist Leto Ybarra (Madrid, 1991). Her latest show, Neoned, articulates different scenarios where masculinity, theatricality, and artifice are drawn and blurred until almost completing a single body.
Crucial for Ybarra’s work is making visible theatrical strategies that operate in the construction of hegemonic masculinity. With her multiple references and formats, the artist addresses different aspects of the fabrication and manipulation of reality and meaning. We visited The Ryder gallery, where Ybarra showed her latest work, and she told us about her artistic process.
Neoned is curated by the Yaby collective (Beatriz Ortega Botas & Alberto Vallejo). Yaby is a curatorial project based in Madrid that has worked with artists such as Aria Dean, Claudia Pagès, P. Staff, Angharad Williams, and Bruno Zhu, among others.
