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SPAIN / Madrid: Ignasi Aballí
by Modem
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until Monday March 14 2016

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
T : +91 774 10 00
Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Spain



Without Beginning / Without End

In October the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía will present an exhibition devoted to Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona 1958). The output of this Catalan artist offers a conceptual reflection on the representation and perception of mediums such as painting, the object, photography, fiction, film and video.

His work, which started in the 1980s, invents and reorganises texts, images, materials and processes, exploring presence and absence, the material and immaterial, the visible and the invisible, transparency and opaqueness, appropriation and creation to relate the overabundance of images in modern-day society to the lack of meaning we can assign to them.

The show mainly focuses on his output over the last ten years, although it does feature lesser-known pieces from periods of his work that came before. It offers a journey through the artist’s aesthetic ideas, which question the conventional systems that represent the artwork through photographs, videos and installations, sculptures, paintings and collages, and with an eclectic display of unconventional materials such as leaves, dust, rust, metals, newspaper cuttings and scraps of bank notes, which all become fragments of the critical poetics of conditions representing life and art in the contemporary world.

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