1965  in Spain

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Angela de la Cruz was born in A Coruña in Galicia, northwest Spain in 1965 and lives and works in London.

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Angela de la Cruz’s practice is elegantly situated between painting and sculpture.

Angela de la Cruz’s practice is elegantly situated between painting and sculpture. Her work engages with the very discourse of painting by targeting its basic anatomy – the stretcher, normally left to its job of keeping the canvas smooth and pliant – often twisted and bent out of shape. By breaking its form, de la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice of the canvas to unleash it into three-dimensional space. Slashed, twisted and reformed into something approaching sculpture