Emilia Azcárate

Exploring and analyzing the possibilities of the topological spaces, the artist employs a scalpel to make cuts in the canvas − on rare occasions, on the plastic support − giving rise to a rupture between forms and background, canceling the two concepts to derive from them a three-dimensional, sculptural element which draws on both and which appears before the viewer featuring sinuous shapes that allow him/her to catch a glimpse of the wooden skeleton of the support, as well as of the front and back of the canvas.
The attitude assumed with regard to the work space varies in terms of the instrument through which the impression is conveyed: the brush now has a cutting edge; it is sharp; it outlines the contour until it transforms it into a bundle of shreds. Vertical or horizontal, detached from their own origin, the incisions break a plane to create a form. Cut into the pages of books, oriented outwards from the inside, volume becomes a singular element, as does the transcendence of the pictorial element present in the sculptures in different formats that seem to possess an organic component which has conferred them a new role.