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Also known as Kepa Akixo

Kepa Akixo, also known as Zigor, is a sculptor, photographer, artist and poet. He was born in 1947 in Aretxabaleta (located in the Spanish province of Gipuzkoa), in the Southern Basque Country.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Spain
Place of birth
Aretxabaleta
Occupation
painter
Languages spoken
Spanish
Official website
www.zigor-art.com
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Portrait Zigor.jpg
Residence
Biarritz
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date of birth
1948-00-00
pseudonym
Zigor
birth name
Kepa Akixo
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Zigor
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Encyclopedic overview

18 sections
Contents
  • Biography
  • Early life, political activism and writing
  • Photography and travels
  • An appointment with sculpture
  • Body of work and artistic process
  • The sketchbook
  • Painting or the extension of a stroke
  • Sculpture
  • From infinitely small to monumental
  • Chronology of his works
  • Sculpture, major exhibitions
  • Photography, major exhibitions
  • Monumental sculptures, private collections
  • Monumental sculptures, public collections
  • Publications (edit)
  • Documentary films (edit)
  • References
  • External links

Kepa Akixo, also known as Zigor, is a sculptor, photographer, artist and poet. He was born in 1947 in Aretxabaleta (located in the Spanish province of Gipuzkoa), in the Southern Basque Country.

His poems were published as of 1973, and he travelled the world as a photojournalist for various news outlets and magazines, as well as the Capa press agency until 1982. In 1983, he began sculpting and joined a community of contemporaries from the region. Zigor draws inspiration from his native environment, exploring thematics of naturalistic, organized chaos and interconnectedness through sculptures, photographs, paintings and poems.

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