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Angela de la Cruz
Self Clutter
Self Clutter (orange-dark green), 2005, oil and acrylic on canvas
and metal, 145 x 55 x 35 cm
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de la Cruz’s paintings promote the idea of a sensuous, direct and familiar contact with the world around us, as opposed to the rarified abstractions of the modernist canon. They present us with a challenge to the traditional bourgeois ideals of predictability, stability and closure, of which the painting is the most obvious icon. As the artist observes: 'the moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting'. The processes of cutting, patching up, fitting back together, re-assembling are central to de la Cruz’s practice.
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