Asier Mendizabal

Exposición / Raven Row / 56 Artillery Lane. London E1 7LS / London, London, City of, Reino Unido
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Cuándo:
08 dic de 2011 - 12 feb de 2012

Inauguración:
08 dic de 2011

Organizada por:
Raven Row

Artistas participantes:
Asier Mendizabal

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Esta exposición monográfica dedicada a Asier Mendizabal muestra una amplia selección de las obras del artista vasco desde 2003 hasta 2011, que alterna escultura, instalación, diseño, cine, vídeo y escritura. Esta monográfica reflexiona sobre la ideología -una de las constantes en la obra de Mendizabal- y sobre las relaciones entre forma, discurso y la realidad de las ideas. Las piezas reflejan los procesos de construcción de la identidad nacional al mismo tiempo que examina la escenografía, símbolos y códigos lingüísticos de la izquierda revolucionaria.

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Raven Row will present the work of Asier Mendizabal (born Ordizia, Basque Country, 1973), in his largest exhibition outside Spain to date.

 

Mendizabal researches the symbols through which cultures are represented. He is especially interested in oppositional and sub-cultures, which are often defined by their adherence to such symbols. Mendizabal unpicks and re-imagines these, questioning the relation of cultural identity to cultural representation, and generating new forms of abstraction.

 

Mendizabal works with a variety of media, and this exhibition will include photography, graphics and photomontages, but its strongest register will be with abstract sculpture. In a new text written to provide a context for the exhibition, Mendizabal has translated a letter by Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, addressed (but never sent) to the jury of a competition organised in 1952 by the ICA in London, to select a monument to The Unknown Political Prisoner. He reconsiders Oteiza's argument for a radical abstraction to represent the political in art.

 

Mendizabal's solo exhibitions include: Asier Mendizabal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2011; Asier Mendizabal - and/or Culturgest, Lisbon, 2010; and Asier Mendizabal, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2008. His work was recently included in the Venice Biennale, 2011, and To the Arts, Citzens!, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2010. He is represented by Carreras Múgica Gallery, Bilbao, Gallery ProjecteSD, Barcelona, and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. He lives and works in Bilbao.

 

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