Installation view of “June Crespo: their weft, the grass,” with (left to right): TW,TG (Acanthus I), 2024, aluminum and stainless-steel casting, carbon fiber, polyester resin, textiles, and lashing straps, 394 x 99 x 170 cm.; and TW,TG (Acanthus II), 2024, aluminum casting and lashing straps, 250 x 89 x 142 cm. Photo: Jhoeko, Courtesy 1646

June Crespo: Constructive Lessons in Looking

June Crespo’s sculptures make use of the wall and ceiling as much as the floor. They jut, protrude, hang, and, at one point in “their weft, the grass” (2024), her recent show at 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague, they penetrate. Focused on material transformation and dissonance, the work of this Basque artist accumulates folds and layers, closures and openings, colors and textures. Above all, diverse materials combine into new formulations in which matter converses with the body through suggestive and sometimes anthropomorphic forms. . .

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