Agustín Ibarrola

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Agustín Ibarrola (2005)

Agustín Ibarrola Goicoechea (born August 18, 1930 in Basauri , Bizkaia ) is a Basque painter and sculptor. Along with Eduardo Chillida and Jorge Oteiza, he is one of the most important Basque-Spanish sculptors today.

Life

Goicoechea started as an autodidact at the age of 16 . At the age of 18 he received a scholarship, with the help of which he was able to study in Madrid with the painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz and discover cubism for himself. During an extended stay in Paris, he turned in the context of the artist group "Equipo 57", the constructivism to. After returning to Spain, he became involved in the Spanish Communist Party ( banned by General Francisco Franco ) and was imprisoned several times for this political activity. In 1964 his pictures were exhibited in London, where he was compared to the Goya of the "Horrors of War". In the 1980s he retired to his farm near Guernika and began to focus on making sculptures .

Works

The painted forest is one of his most famous motifs as a sculptor . First he painted living trees in Grandma's forest near his home. Later in Salamanca, together with students from the local art school, he created the Enchanted Forest by painting dried-up elms and soon afterwards the Forest of the Totems (in a train station in Madrid). Further examples of large sculptures by Ibarrola are his Cube of Remembrance in the port of Llanes and his installation Totems made from one hundred railway sleepers on the Haniel dump in the Ruhr area. Ibarrola has been critical of ETA's terrorism since the 1990s , including as a co-founder of the ¡Basta Ya! (It's enough now!). In 1993 there were attacks by ETA supporters on his forest by Oma , with the bark of around 100 trees being damaged.

Painted forest

  • Bosque de Oma (1) .JPG
  • Bosque de Oma (19) - El ojo.JPG
  • Bosque de Oma (21) .JPG

Totems

  • Totem-babeslea-Agustin-Ibarrola-2.JPG
  • Bottrop - Halde Haniel - Totems 09 ies.jpg
  • Bottrop - Halde Haniel - Totems 06 ies.jpg

literature

  • Juan Antonio Vela del Campo: Agustín Ibarrola - Arte y Naturaleza . Madrid 1999 (catalog).

Web links

Commons : Agustín Ibarrola  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Schneider: Ibarrola's steles
personal data
SURNAME Ibarrola, Agustín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibarrola Goicoechea, Agustín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basque artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Basauri , Bizkaia