Incidencia acumulada

OIER IRURETAGOIENA
9 March - 11 May 2023
CarrerasMugica is pleased to present, from 9 March to 11 May, Incidencia acumulada, the third solo show by Oier Iruretagoiena at the
gallery, following Gazta-hezurra / El hueso del queso in 2015 and Hezur Berriak (Nuevos huesos) in 2019.

The first step was going to the studio one day, cutting and gluing three bits of wood and leaving. I didn’t return until the next
day, so that the glue would be well dry before continuing. Each time I added more parts, and the object grew day by day. Then
I divided it into two and continued working on each part, and later in turn dividing them too. All the new sculptures presented
here came about from that same point of origin that kept expanding, and they openly display the traces of the process, based
on a succession of daily decisions. The surface exposes the inner structure, made up of layers of wood and paper paste, and you
can also intuit the time that must have elapsed in the studio from the beginning until each work was considered finished. On
the other hand, the veins of the wood add more layers to the already tangled mesh of sediments, and also speak of the process
of growth of the pine tree from which they came. As such, both this series of sculptures and the exhibition itself are called Inci-
dencia acumulada (Accumulated Incidence). It is the accumulation of many actions, accidents, disappointments and surprises.
The term also resonates in our recent memory, because ‘incidence’ was one of those pieces of data used to justify lockdowns,
travel restrictions, COVID digital certs and face masks. We have lived through a period in which decisions based on graphics and
statistics have marked our everyday lives, and this is the reason why some of the sculptures have forms that recall X and Y axes,
or they include rules, as if they wished to measure the development of forms in space.
The series of small collages Incauto-Inteligente-Estúpido-Malvado (Helpless-Intelligent-Stupid-Bandits) is likewise based on
the template for the diagram devised by the Italian historian Carlo M. Cipolla. He presented it for the first time in a humorous
essay called The Basic laws of Human Stupidity, which was initially circulated solely among friends, but ended up being pu-
blished widely and translated into several languages. The graph represents how the interaction between two people is based on
the naivety, intelligence, stupidity or evil of both parties. It is an ironical proposal because a graph can represent what is quan-
tifiable or measurable but not what is qualitative. The complexity of human relationships or of life itself cannot be translated
to such simple schema. Hairs and traces of ink, glue and paint defy order or measurement along an axis, and play along with
Cipolla’s joke.
The show is rounded off with San Sebastián (doce) (San Sebastian [Twelve]), a work from 2021, produced for the one-person
show San Sebastián y el fantasma (San Sebastián and the Ghost) at Museo San Telmo de Donostia-San Sebastián. This piece has
points of connection with the other works on view, both in the layered construction as well as the patterns drawn on the surface.
Oier Iruretagoiena (Errenteria, Gipuzkoa, 1988) started out in the field of experimental music before gradually opening up to other formats like sculpture. He graduated
with a BA in Fine Art from UPV-EHU in 2011, including an exchange with Universitat de Barcelona, and in 2018 he took part in the WIELS residency programme
in Brussels. He has had solo shows at the Ana Mas Projects gallery in Barcelona (2022), at Museo San Telmo in Donostia-San Sebastián (2021), at CarrerasMugica in
Bilbao (2019 & 2015) and at the Halfhouse space in Barcelona (2014), among others, plus an upcoming show this autumn at WIELS in Brussels. He has also exhibited
his work in various group shows: El sentido de la sculpture at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2021), Generación 2020 at La Casa Encendida in Madrid (2020),
Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois at Institut de Carton in Brussels (2019), Bi Dos Two at Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao (2018), Cale, cale, cale! Caale!!! at Tabakalera in Donos-
tia-San Sebastián (2017), and Otzan at Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid (2016). In addition, from 2011 to 2020 he was one of the coordinators of Club Le Larraskito in
Bilbao, and since 2020 he writes a column for the Berria newspaper.
 Incidencia acumulada VIII, 2023
Pine wood, papier mache, paint, ink, wooden rulers, varnish
93 x 50 x 25 cm.
Incidencia acumulada VIII, 2023. Pine wood, papier mache, paint, ink, wooden rulers, varnish. 93 x 50 x 25 cm.
Incidencia acumulada II, 2022
Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, paint, ink, varnish, plastic rulers
103 x 58 x 50 cm.
 Incidencia acumulada II, 2022
Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, paint, ink,
varnish, plastic rulers
103 x 58 x 50 cm.
Incidencia acumulada VI, 2023. Pine wood, plywood, MDF, paper mache, paint, ink, varnish, wood rulers. 92 x 68 x 65 cm.
 Incidencia acumulada VI, 2023. Pine wood, plywood, MDF,
paper mache, paint, ink, varnish, wood rulers. 92 x 68 x 65 cm.
Incidencia acumulada IV, 2022. Pine wood, plywood, MDF, paper mache, paint, varnish, wooden rulers. 90 x 80 x 61 cm.
Incidencia acumulada IV, 2022
Pine wood, plywood, MDF, paper mache, paint, varnish, wooden rulers.
90 x 80 x 61 cm.
Incidencia acumulada I, 2022. Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, varnish, wood ruler. 90 x 80 x 61 cm.
Incidencia acumulada I, 2022. Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, varnish, wood ruler. 90 x 80 x 61 cm.
Incidencia acumulada I, 2022. Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, varnish, wood ruler. 90 x 80 x 61 cm.
 San Sebastián (doce), 2021
Wood, papier mache, chewing gum, ink, varnish
2 elements: 243 x 10 x 10 cm, 243 x 10 x 1 cm.
 Incidencia acumulada VII, 2023
Pine wood, plywood, MDF, paper mache, paint, ink, varnish
135 x 65 x 15 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO II, 2022 INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO VI, 2022
Plastic, paint, ink, printings, hairs. 29 x 21,5 cm. Plastic, ink, printings, hairs. 30 X 18 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO V, 2022 INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO VII, 2022
Plastic, paint, printings. 26 x 17 cm. Plastic, paint, ink, prints, hair, glue. 22 x 18,5 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO III, 2022 INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO IX, 2022
Plastic, paint, ink, prints, hair. 26,5 x 18 cm. Plastic, paint, ink, prints, hair. 22 x 15,5 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO X, 2022 INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO VIII, 2022
Plastic, paint, ink, prints, hair. 26,5 x 15,5 cm. Plastic, paint, prints, hair. 21,5 x 15,5 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO XI, 2022 INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO I, 2022
Plastic, paint, prints, hair. 37 x 25,5 cm. Plastic, paint, ink, adhesive tape. 30 x 21,5 cm.
INCAUTO-INTELIGENTE-ESTÚPIDO-MALVADO IV, 2022
Plastic, paint, prints. 26,5 x 18 cm.
Incidencia acumulada III, 2022. Pine wood, plywood, paper mache, paint, ink, varnish. 102 x 67 x 40 cm.
(top right) Incidencia acumulada III, 2022

(left) Incidencia acumulada IX, 2023

Incidencia acumulada IX, 2023. Pine wood, papier mache, paint, ink, varnish, steel wire. 126 x 88 x 9 cm.
 (top) Incidencia acumulada X, 2023

(right) Incidencia acumulada IX, 2023

 Incidencia acumulada X, 2023
Pine wood, papier mache, paint, ink, varnish.
86 x 65 x 20 cm.
Incidencia acumulada V, 2023. Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, varnish. 100 x 65 x 27 cm.
 Incidencia acumulada V, 2023
Pine wood, plywood, papier mache, varnish.
100 x 65 x 27 cm.
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