Waiting for the Unfinished Drawing - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

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Waiting for the Unfinished Drawing

Lazkano, Jesus Mari

Bergara, Gipuzkoa, 10/01/1960

Acrylic on canvas

125 x 200 cm

LAZKANO (bottom right hand corner)

2001

First decade of the 21st century

02/92

Acquired in 2002

  • Waiting for the Unfinished Drawing belongs to a more literal hyperrealism. It is a cold New York vision obtained from an interior of impeccable spatial purity. The image seen through the great window comes from a photograph by Alfred Stieglitz in the 1930s. The work may be taken as a homage to what is known in architecture as "the international style" and above all to the work of Mies van der Rohe. The interior recreates the lines of rationalist architecture and introduces elements like the green marble and the column. Here, Lazkano has done away with the expressive intensity of the previous works and eliminated everything that is not merely representative of reality. (Javier Viar) (Marta García Maruri)

Selected bibliography

  • Adquisiciones 02/07 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2007. pp. 132-133, n° cat. 57.
  • Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 196-197.
  • Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 196-197.
  • Lucie-Smith, Edward ; Lazkano, Jesus Mari. Lazkano : de la arquitectura a la naturaleza [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2010. pp. 48-49, 162.
  • Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 196-197, n° cat. 112c.
  • Figurados, figuraciones, figurantes : estar o (tal vez) soñar [Cat. exp.]. [Bilbao], Iberdrola, 2015. pp. 20, 128, 130-131, 202, sin n° cat.
  • Lazkano : ikusmira [Cat. exp.]. San Sebastián, Kutxa Fundazioa, 2016. pp. 92-93, il.
  • 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. 666-667, 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.