Rose Trraction
June Crespo
June Crespo, VSCHC, Vieron su casa hacerse campo. Vue de l’exposition au CA2M, Madrid, Espagne. Photo : © Roberto Ruiz
June Crespo, No Osso (Occipital), 2023. Résine acrylique, argile, pâte à modeler, tissu, 48×143×43 cm. Photo : © Roberto Ruiz.
June Crespo, Their weft, the grass, 2024. Tissu réfléchissant, barre métallique, baril. Photo : © Ander Sagastiberri
Curatorship: Claire Le Restif
ROSE TRRACTION is Basque artist June Crespo’s first solo exhibition in France. Partly rooted in the tradition of contemporary Basque sculpture, his work draws on the friction between materials and the expressive possibilities this creates. The exhibition will mainly feature works produced especially for his exhibition at Crédac.
June Crespo has developed a unique style of writing that combines assemblages, experimental use of images, moulding techniques, and industrial and organic materials. Intuitively perceiving the free associations of forms that everyday objects allow, the artist strips them of their uses and meanings, retaining only parts of them, from which she extracts their plastic possibilities. Reduced to fragments, tubes, and shells that she moulds and assembles, these elements become the different layers that make up her sculptures. Tenderness and gentle gestures are at the heart of this process, whose traces and imperfections she preserves. June Crespo creates a dialogue between materials, playing with dissonances to bring out sensitivity and poetry.
Although the meaning of his work only becomes apparent in retrospect, it resonates deeply, without ever mentioning it, with the exploration of the body. Fragmented, recomposed, it is implicitly present in the abstract elements that the artist composes, the materials and forms, their rigidity and flexibility, their falls and elevations, their brutality and delicacy.
The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the support of the Henry Moore Foundation and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
It has been organised with the support of Galería CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; P420 Gallery, Bologna; and Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid.
Artist biography
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Born in Pamplona, Spain, in 1982, June Crespo studied in Leioa at the Fine Arts Department of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), renowned for its long tradition of teaching sculpture. She lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.
Her work was noticed very early on in the Spanish contemporary art scene, and she has received the Gure Artea Prize (2013), the Botín Foundation Visual Arts Grant (2018), the Ojo Crítico de Artes Plásticas Prize (2018) and the 7th María José Jove Foundation International Art Prize (2019). She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is one of the artists featured in the exhibition ‘The Milk of Dreams’ organised for the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) by curator Cecilia Alemani. Recently, her sculptures have been the subject of two major solo exhibitions: ‘Vieron sur casa hacerse campo’ (2023) at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, followed by ‘VASCULAR’ (2024) at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Elsewhere in Europe, his work has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the 1646 art centre in The Hague (Netherlands) and will be shown at Secession in Vienna (Austria) from September to November 2025. In France, her sculptures were part of the group exhibition ‘L’ÉCORCE’ (2023), with Mathilde Rosier and Ana Vaz at the CRAC Alsace, as well as ‘Fata Morgana’ at the Jeu de Paume in 2022.
