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- Born
- 1988
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Las horas
- Acto de desobediencia
- El caminante y El ágora
- Volver al padre
- Las crías cantaron al hambre
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Quotes
- “Few weapons are more political than the body.”
- “As much as I try to isolate death desires from my life, they have accompanied me since I can remember.”
- “I was born to be sad. I was born to suffer.”
- “When I regained consciousness, I was transferred to a psychiatric clinic. I stayed there for twenty-two days. Against previous diagnoses, which identified a bipolar disorder, I was diagnosed with a personality disorder. Again, I was medicated enough to practically not be able to speak. I remember walking through those halls more dead than alive.”
- “Working with pain and the body to the limit, living with wounds and a mental illness, sleeping awake invaded by night terrors, all this entails a spirit of resistance.”
- “Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Abel Luján Gutierrez , ( 1988-04-01 ) 1 April 1988 (age 38) , Madrid , Spain
- Known for
- Performance Art , Process Art , Body Art
- Notable work
- Empathy and Prostitution (2013) Amen or The Pederasty (2015) The Fathers (2016) The Death of The Artist (2018)
- Movement
- Conceptual art , Performance Art, Process Art
- Website
- abelazcona .art
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.abelazcona.art
- Image
- Retrato del artista Abel Azcona -1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Abel Azcona
- date of birth
- 1988-04-01
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 101034
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Article
Abel Azcona Marcos (born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art. His work includes installations, sculptures, and video art. He is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art. His first works dealt with personal identity, violence and the limits of pain; his later works are of a more critical, political and social nature.
Azcona's works have been exhibited at the Venetian Arsenal, the Contemporary Art Center in Málaga, the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Art League, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. His work has also been exhibited at the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka and Taipei, the Lyon Biennale, the Miami International Performance Festival and the Bangladesh Live Art Biennale. The Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2014.