Malformalismo
Malformalismo
Txomin Badiola
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138 x 210 mm
312 páginas
Cover design: Setanta
Interior design: Iñaki Rodríguez
The sculptor Igan O. has been invited to participate in a debate on formalism at a major museum, a public exposure that forces him to confront his own creation, practice, and personal history — the small but fundamental story of each individual — from pre-artistic childhood and adolescence experiences, where initial forms emerge in intimacy with family, memory, identity, and death.
Part essay, fiction, and autobiography, Badiola now expands his fragmented, acronological, and emotionally intense style into literature, reflecting the same "bad form" he has practiced throughout his career as an artist.
The creator's complex gaze — both inward and toward his surroundings — employs a strategy that both conceals and exposes: "I quickly realized I was not in a position to lie in the form of truth. I thought that for me, and perhaps for everyone, it would be more interesting to become hysterical, trying to tell the truth in the form of a lie."
Txomin Badiola (Bilbao, 1957) is an artist with an extensive career in the visual arts. His work has been the subject of several retrospectives, the most recent in 2016 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. He has combined his practice with curatorial and teaching work, including projects at Arteleku art center and the Primer Proforma program at MUSAC. He is the author of Oteiza. Catálogo razonado de escultura, published by the Oteiza Museum Foundation. This is his first novel.
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