This artist has developed most of his career in the Basque Country. After studying Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country (UPV), he lived in Warsaw and Barcelona for a time before returning to Bilbao in the late 1990s. He also combines his work as a painter with incursions into filmmaking and writing.

In his work, Candaudap makes use of an accumulative system, treating the canvas as a repository on which to gather a variety of elements presented fragmentarily.

The painting at hand brings to mind a photosensitised surface, its corners spliced by bands of colour and suffused with a mysterious play of lights and shadows similar to Man Ray’s rayographs or to stills of the super-8 films made by the artist himself, revealing his awareness of light as something immaterial and thus alluding to the transience of things.

Candaudap combines figurative elements (the hammer) with more abstract blurred contours. Here we see a concentration of heterogeneous and disorganised fragments which deflect the beholder’s attention and emotion, unlike his earlier works, where the fragmented images were deployed in a more orderly manner.

These traces and remnants of objects seem to rise from the memories buried in the ruins of Belchite, a town totally devastated during the Spanish Civil War.