Abel Azcona
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Abel Azcona (born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art.[1][2][3] His work includes installations,[4] sculptures,[5] and video art.[6] He is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art.[7] 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.[8]
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Born | Abel Luján Gutierrez (1988-04-01) 1 April 1988 (age 36) Madrid, Spain |
Known for | Performance Art, Process Art, Body Art |
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Movement | Conceptual art, Performance Art, Process Art |
Website | abelazcona |
Azcona's works have been exhibited at the Venetian Arsenal, the Contemporary Art Center in Málaga,[9] the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art,[10] the Houston Art League,[11] the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York[12] and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.[13] His work has also been exhibited at the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka and Taipei,[14] the Lyon Biennale,[15] the Miami International Performance Festival[16] and the Bangladesh Live Art Biennale.[17] The Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2014.[18][19]