Pello Irazu, “Demolition Strategies 2,” 2025 - Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.
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Matter
05/03/2026 - 11/04/2026
YANCEY RICHARDSON
525 West 22nd Street
10011 New York
www.yanceyrichardson.com/
Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Matter, an exhibition of new work by Spanish artist Pello Irazu, the artist’s third solo presentation with the gallery. Bringing together new photographic and sculptural works, the exhibition signals the intensification of Irazu’s investigation into the materiality of the image.
Known for his sculptural works, Irazu is considered one of the key figures in the renewal of Basque sculpture since beginning his career in the 1980s. In the early 2000s, he began integrating photography into his practice, combining the concepts and formal strategies of conceptualism, minimalism and constructivism to explore the tensions between photographic representation, painting and sculpture.
Irazu uses the studio space and the objects therein as the basis for his works, whether painted photographs or the spare wall sculptures that evoke planarity and a collision of angles and perspectives. The sculptures are built with studio items such as cardboard boxes and wood blocks that are typically cast, painted and then reassembled as sculptural objects. By making photographs of his sculptures in the studio space and then painting simple lines on the surface of the print, Irazu establishes a dialogue between surface and image, two dimensions and three dimensions, sculpture, photography and paint.
05/03/2026 - 11/04/2026
YANCEY RICHARDSON
525 West 22nd Street
10011 New York
www.yanceyrichardson.com/
Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Matter, an exhibition of new work by Spanish artist Pello Irazu, the artist’s third solo presentation with the gallery. Bringing together new photographic and sculptural works, the exhibition signals the intensification of Irazu’s investigation into the materiality of the image.
Known for his sculptural works, Irazu is considered one of the key figures in the renewal of Basque sculpture since beginning his career in the 1980s. In the early 2000s, he began integrating photography into his practice, combining the concepts and formal strategies of conceptualism, minimalism and constructivism to explore the tensions between photographic representation, painting and sculpture.
Irazu uses the studio space and the objects therein as the basis for his works, whether painted photographs or the spare wall sculptures that evoke planarity and a collision of angles and perspectives. The sculptures are built with studio items such as cardboard boxes and wood blocks that are typically cast, painted and then reassembled as sculptural objects. By making photographs of his sculptures in the studio space and then painting simple lines on the surface of the print, Irazu establishes a dialogue between surface and image, two dimensions and three dimensions, sculpture, photography and paint.