Asier Mendizabal in Barcelona

A member of the latest generation of Basque artists, Asier Mendizabal (Ordizia, Gipuzkoa province, 1973) produces sculptures and installations which share a similar concern: the question for signs and symbols enabling us to go beyond ideas about geographic or cultural roots in constructing the identities of groups and individuals. Hence, the idea of generation or a emotional relationship to events or aesthetic production lines (music) confirm areas of identification in which we find both the importance of hard rock and punk and a critical gaze at models for co-existence proposed by modernity, particularly as regards architecture, the working world and the supposed emancipations that history has produced.