The works by the young Spanish artist Maíder Lopez move between art, design and architecture. Regardless of whether they involve furniture-like and thus also usable sculptures, colorful door mats, bright awnings or invented traffic signs in public space, her works are created in the context of art but have a use in everyday life.
As in the work taken over from the Venice Biennale and site-specifically realized at O.K, she plays with various functions and attributions. The former entrance foyer of the O.K is now a color-room. Every single wall surface was measured, a color assigned to it, and then it was labeled with the measurements. Here the colored walls are not only walls, but also – loosely based on art-historical references (such as the American color field painting of the sixties) – monochrome paintings. Through this bright treatment, the space itself undergoes a new perception; it becomes a sculpture.
51st Venice Biennale, 2005

Maider López, born 1975 in San Sebastian, Spain, lives and works there.
www.maiderlopez.com