Untitled, 2018-2025

Artist: Nicolás Ortigosa Yoldi

Materials: Graphite on paper

Technique: Drawing. Collage

Dimensions: 196 × 206 cm and 158 × 190 cm

Todolí Citrus Fundació Collection

Donated by the artist

Spontaneous mutations and natural hybridisations have given rise to much of the diversity of citrus fruits we know today. This capacity for adaptation and change forms the starting point for these two works created by Nicolás Ortigosa Yoldi for Todolí Citrus Fundació between 2018 and 2025.

Developed through drawing and collage on paper, the works are the result of several years of visits to the El Bartolí botanical orchard and observation of the citrus landscape. The artist works the paper through successive layers of graphite and subsequently tears and reassembles it, joining different fragments to construct new images in which lemons can be recognised.

Drawing occupies a central place in Ortigosa’s artistic practice. Through repetition, erasure, accumulation and displacement, he develops a physical and persistent engagement with the paper. Graphite functions both as a drawing tool and as a record of the time devoted to the work, making visible the different stages of its construction.

These works incorporate concerns that are present throughout much of his practice, including transformation, the relationship with place and an attention to processes that unfold gradually over time. In the works created for Todolí Citrus Fundació, these interests are brought into dialogue with the citrus landscape and with the dynamics of change and adaptation found in nature.

Nicolás Ortigosa Yoldi (Pamplona, 1983)

Nicolás Ortigosa Yoldi’s artistic practice focuses primarily on drawing, collage and installation. His work explores the relationships between time, matter, memory and territory through long-term processes based on observation and direct experience.

The accumulation of graphite layers, the repetition of gesture and the gradual construction of the surface are among the most characteristic features of his work. Through these procedures, drawing becomes both an image and the material record of a process.