4 February 2025 – 31 July 2025
Paula Blanco (Oviedo, 1996) is a visual artist who graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 2020. She understands her practice as a constant research, creating new processes that allow her to build light and organic pieces. Based in Asturias, she has participated for two consecutive years in the Muestrade Artes Plásticas de Asturias (MAPPA), exhibiting her work in venues such as laINJUVE in Madrid and the Antiguo Instituto de Gijón. She has also been a part of other events and exhibitions such as the Professional Week of Art in the Oviedo Arms Factory and ENTREARTE III in the Palace of Revillagigedo. She has had solo exhibitions in Oviedo (Espacio Brecha, 2020; AranchaOsoro, 2023) and in Dubai (2022) after a residency at JumeirahCreekside. She has also participated in several fairs such as Just Lx (Lisbon) or Estampa. She will soon participate in the art week in Madrid, exhibiting her sculptural pieces in Urvanity with Stain Projects (Mallorca) and her wall pieces in ArtMadrid with Arancha Osoro (Oviedo).
Project in residence
Goethe believed in the existence of a protoplant (Urpflanze) that would be the original plant, the model plant. Tireless in his research and studies, the poet created the field of morphology to, through the study of forms, find the unity that underlies the great variety of plants and animals. Paula Blanco shares this fascination with the search for unity among the forms of nature. To achieve it, she constantly researches materials and techniques, even developing her own by working with fiberglass and other materials to create veils of color, translucent sheets that, accompanied by the structures that the artist creates at the same time, generate ambiguous beings with characteristics of plants or insects. For Urpflanze, Paula will observe different types of plants, as well as their development, to subsequently create a series of large and medium format pieces that, through their shape, color and composition, pose different proposals of what could be that primordial plant. The project thus provides a solid focus from the plant life to the search for the original that the artist has been carrying out for years.