Basque artist Joseba Eskubi resides and works in Bilbao. He studied art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Basque Country and currently teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country.
Eskubi explores organic forms in decomposition, following the soft and amorphous qualities that accentuate the tactile sense of vision. There is movement and tension exhibited through his work, an internal force that pulls things toward the abyss. Eskubi usually works on several works at a time, with the intention of expanding the possibilities of each theme. He endeavours to make the final effect something obsessive, repetitive, with a certain tone and atmosphere. The idea is that each image has a temperature, or a character like a portrait of an unknown subject or form until he narrates it with his brush. Generally Eskubi does not represent specific elements, in order to maintain a certain ambiguity that allows for suggestion and evocation. His use of pictorial gestures build a credible figure, but at the same time his work is decoded as an abstract and purely material/ medium based composition.
Eskubis work interests me due to the application of the medium, I enjoy the tactile feel to each composition, the organic subject matter and the obscured perspective of each impasto based stroke. I find his work to be gently surreal and evidently peculiar. I would love to investigate subjects I choose to visually document in an organic manner, establishing the form and painting how I naturally do. Rather than concentrating on creating an observational still life, I would like to narrate some images in a peculiar form which stays in an editorial format, allowing room for multiple mediums and processes.
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