JAUREGIZURIA
ANTTON

. Antton Jauregizuria 1950. Leioa Among the visual arts, the one that most interested me for many years was the photography of artistic and musical representations, architecture, landscape and portraiture mainly. A few years ago I began to explore the world of painting, which allowed me to free myself from the great bondage of objectivity to which photography is very subjected. Thanks to painting, I discovered that I could express what I liked without having to restrict myself to the limits of the objective, that is, to copy a model or follow a script or, at most, to alter the backgrounds. I progressively leaned towards a form of abstract expressionism and, less often than not, figurative. Each of the works that I have done so far has been a new step for me that has pushed me to go up to the next in a process that continues today. With the passage of time I was able to observe that a part of my works were oriented towards sculpture. Indeed, the desire to work with the three dimensions of space led me to make my first pieces of sculpture. Today this is the one that prevails in my work. My work is self-taught and is not oriented towards any particular focus but is rooted in my personal inclinations. I try to use simple materials, sometimes using objects derived from everyday life to produce my work. In recent times I am trying to develop pieces that are as simple and expressive as possible. I paint them in black so that the pure shapes stand out. I don't know until when this work on my particular alphabet of form will continue; but I have the impression that it will go a long way. As far as painting is concerned, as in sculpture, there is an oscillation between the abstract and the figurative symbolic. Some of my sculptural pieces have been presented in group exhibitions in Barcelona and Valdepeñas. My paintings have been exhibited in a monographic way in Bilbao. I have also presented works of painting and sculpture on international online platforms.