Eva Lootz

(Viena, 1940)

Peine

1983

Brass on wood chipboard

61.7 x 109.8 x 32.3 cm

Inv. no. 651

BBVA Collection Spain


Eva Lootz’s work boasts a considerable formal variety and the artist’s practice embraces everything from drawing, photography and painting to sculpture and installation.

Lootz started out in 1973 as part of the movement. She was actively involved in the experimental magazine Humo of which only a single issue was published. In the late 1970s she made the leap from two to three dimensions, experimenting with the expressive qualities of materials and installation, and the works in the BBVA Collection are a good example of that shift.

This sculpture is halfway between installation and a reinterpretation of the object, apparently a sculptural hyperbole of a mundane object or what Donald Judd (1928-1994) would have called a “specific object.”

This very same object had already featured in a work the artist made in the late 1970s, and which she had returned to in 1981. The material, in this case brass, is used to cover and dignify the wooden soul or armature of the piece. The work evokes a sense of order and perfection, and contrasts with other works from the same period in which the artist dwells on the process of transformation and on the temporary chaos it gives rise to.