Abel Azcona

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Abel Azcona (2018)

Abel Azcona (born April 1, 1988 in Madrid ) is a Spanish action artist .

His autobiographical art actions include performance , installations , sculptures, video art, painting and writing as well as essays and smaller literary texts. His early work was about personal identity, violence, and the limits of pain, which evolved into works of a critical, political, and social nature.

Exhibitions

His work has been exhibited in exhibitions and galleries around the world and has been shown at the Venice Arsenal and the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka and Taipei, the Lyon Biennale , the Miami International Performance Festival, and the Art Biennale in Bangladesh. In addition, Azcona is represented in various national and international museums and cultural centers, including the Malaga Center for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, the Art League Houston, the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York and the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá dedicated a retrospective exhibition to the artist Abel Azcona in 2014.

Abel Azcona, Los Padres , Madrid

Works

  • Stolon (Hrsg.): Wintersonnenwende [compilation of performative works] . 2014, ISBN 978-1-938022-71-5 .
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (Ed.): Not wanted [catalog on the occasion of the retrospective] . 2014, ISSN  1909-3543 .
  • Dos Bigotes (Ed.): The Moving Sky [Collective Political Essay by Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Eduardo Aute and Abel Azcona] . 2015, ISBN 978-84-949674-4-3 .
  • Maretti (Ed.): Die Stunden [compilation of performative works. Biographical Stories] . 2016, ISBN 978-88-98855-49-0 .
  • Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo (Ed.): Contemporary Art Essays [Ensayo] . 2017, ISBN 978-84-942321-9-0 .
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (ed.): Curatorships. Contemporary Visions. [Recopilación obra en colecciones] . 2017, ISBN 978-958-763-198-2 .
  • Con-Tensión Editorial (Ed.): Manifiest [Political Essay] . 2018.
  • Círculo de Bellas Artes (ed.): Assumption of the artist as a radical and disobedient subject, both in life and in death. [Manifesto] . 2018.
  • Pages Editors (Eds.): Liberty of exception [Collective Political Essay by Carles Puigdemont, Jordi Cuixart and Abel Azcona] . 2018, ISBN 978-84-13-03013-5 .
  • Roca Umbert Museum (Ed.): Theory of Performance Art . 2018.
  • Roca Umbert Museum (Ed.): Practice of Performance Art . 2018.
  • MueveTuLengua (Ed.): Abel Azcona 1988-2018 [Anthology] . Prologue by Tania Bruguera and Pussy riot . 2019, ISBN 978-84-17284-52-7 .
  • Sant Fruitós de Bages (ed.): Abel Azcona, art, action & rebellion [Recopilación obra performativa] . 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-10004-0 .
  • Dos Bigotes (Ed.): The Little Buds [Biographical Stories] . 2019, ISBN 978-84-949674-4-3 .
  • Milenio (Ed.): Act of disobedience [Political Essay] . 2019, ISBN 978-84-9743-864-3 .

Web links

Commons : Abel Azcona  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abel Azcona critica la manca de drets humans en una nova exposició a Sant Fruitós. In: Regió7. February 22, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 (Catalan).
  2. ↑ Brezo Criado Santos: Abel Azcona: "España es un país de tabúes". Cadena Ser, June 28, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2010 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Enamul Hoque Chowdhury: Performance Art mesmerises Audience At 18th Asian Art Biennale. September 7, 2018, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Carolina Gómez: Abel Azcona: artista o héroe. February 17, 2013, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Miami Performance Festival. June 21, 2013, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Anna Adell: Abel Azcona, la empatía como materia artística. January 2017, Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  7. ^ Performance “I'm Lovin It” by Abel Azcona. January 23, 2013, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jesús Fragozo Caro: Las aventuras de Abel Azcona. In: El Espectador. November 2014, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  9. Jump up ↑ Bill Davenport: Lone Star Performance Explosion: Some of Night February 2 , 2014, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 'Stigma'-Carlos Franklin and' Someone else 'Abel Azcona in New York. In: Spanish Contemporary Art Network. September 20, 2014, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Abel Azcona. In: Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Marc Caellas: Abel Azcona: artes vivas en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogota. October 29, 2014, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  13. ^ Juan David Quintero Arbeláez: Abel Azcona. No deseado. Una vision retrospectiva del artista. In: MAC. October 2014, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  14. ^ Oscar García García: Retrospectiva de Abel Azcona en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá. In: Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo. October 2014, accessed September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Azcona, Abel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid