Ana Laura Aláez

Ana Laura Aláez
Born1964 (age 60–61)
Bilbao, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Notable workCatwoman
Pantalón preservativo
Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma
Websiteanalauraalaez.com

Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964) is a Basque artist. She is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Spain. She defines herself as an "emotions architect", as she transforms all her life into art, depicting her feelings in her artworks. One of her first exhibitions took place in 1992, in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10, in Barcelona. Alberto Peral, another Basque artist, was also featured in this exhibition.[1]

Biography

Aláez became popularly known in 1992, with an exhibition named Superficie ("surface"), held in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10.[2] In this exhibition, Aláex showed three objects (Catwoman, Pantalón preservativo, and Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma) which were between pop art and gender critics, close to the performance art that became popular in the seventies.[1]

She created the interior design project Geometrical Life, with César Rey and Daniel Holc. She is also Girls on Film's singer, and works with a musician named Ascii.disko. In 2003 she published Flúor, a book with pictures and texts where she depicted her deepest aesthetic thoughts.

In 2013, Aláez was one of three winners (along with artist June Crespo and researcher Adelina Moyano) of the Basque Country government's Gure Artea Awards, receiving an endowment of €25,000.[3]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions:[4]

  • 2007
Unknowns. Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
K-stains, Casa Asia, Barcelona
Lab Project, Sarjah Museus, United Emirates
Marie's story, Space C*, Seoul
  • 2006
Architecture of sound, Museo banco de la República, Bogotá
Bambi, Mercat de La Boqueria, Barcelona
  • 2005
Goodbye horses (kiss the frog - the art of transformation), National Museum, Oslo
K-stains, Spanish Embassy, Seoul
Cosmo Cosmetic, Space C*, Seoul
She is in fashion, Bilbao
Black metal/pink t-shirt, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona
  • 2004
Superficiality, Biennial of Korea
Hell disco, Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi, Helsinki, Spanish Culture Centre, Mexico
Signale der Kleidung, Contemporary Art Centre, Podewil, Berlin
  • 2003
Beauty cabinet prototype, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Royal Trip, PS1, MoMA, New York City
  • 2002
Sound recording room, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Brothel, Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña
  • 2001
Brothel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
Dance & Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago
Pink Room, Liquid Sky, Sain room, Biennale di Venezia
  • 2000
Dance & Disco, Espacio Uno, Museo Reina Sofia
Liquid Sky, Biennal de Buenos Aires
  • 1999
Project Room, Arco’99
Brothel, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum (Korea)
  • 1998
Prototype studio for an artist of the new millennium, Pontevedra Biennial
  • 1997
She astronauts, Sala Montcada, Barcelona
She in the outer space, Istanbul Biennial
  • 1996
Krystal y attyla, Área II, Rekalde, Bilbao
  • 1992
Surface, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró

Publications

  • Aláez, Ana Laura (2008). Ana Laura Aláez: using your guns. León: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. ISBN 9788881586752.
  • Arell, Berndt (curator) (2004). Fuck art, let's dance. Ana Laura Aláez. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior. ISBN 8496008681.
  • Martínez, Rosa; et al. (1997). She astronauts (1st ed.). Barcelona: Fundació "la Caixa". ISBN 8476645791.
  • Sáenz de Gorbea, Xabier, ed. (1997). Ana Laura Aláez (1st ed.). Vitoria-Gasteiz: Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Argitalpen Zerbitzu Nagusia = Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco. ISBN 8445711881.

References

  1. ^ a b Segade, Manuel (2014). Haver fet un lloc on els artistes tinguin lloc a equivocar-se. Històries de l'Espai 10 i l'Espai 13 de la Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró. p. 130. ISBN 978-84-941239-8-6.
  2. ^ ""Biografía de Ana Laura Aláez"". artespain. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008.
  3. ^ "La navarra June Crespo, entre las ganadoras de los premios Gure Artea". Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). Vitoria. EFE. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. ^ "CV". Ana Laura Aláez official website. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020.