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Albia
Herrero, Mari Puri
Bilbao, 12/10/1942
Oil on canvas
210 x 194.8 cm
MP. Herrero (bottom right hand corner); MP. Herrero (on the reverse)
2002
First decade of the 21st century
02/158
Acquired in 2002
- Herrero's work features a gradual thinning down in which her figures and settings are denaturalized to take on a sort of phantasmal quality. Albia, one of several versions she has produced of the plaza with the gardens of Albia in Bilbao, is a good example of this enigmatic dematerialization of reality, despite the artist leaving just enough in for us to be able to recognize the place depicted. (Javier Viar)
Selected bibliography
- Adquisiciones 02/07 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2007. pp. 88-89, n° cat. 35.
- Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 158-159.
- Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 158-159.
- Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 158-159, n° cat. 87c.
- Viar, Javier. Historia del arte vasco : de la Guerra Civil a nuestros días, 1936-2016. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2017. pp. 354, 356, il.
- Después del 68 : arte y prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco, 1968-2018 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. p. 433.
- Viar, Javier. Hijos de la angustia. Bilbao, Muelle de Uribitarte, 2019. pp. 252, 257, il.