Txomin Badiola
The work of Txomin Badiola in the last three decades has been presided over by the notion of BAD FORM: a form that, while being the guarantor of the organization of its components, is also the guarantor of its own transgression; a form that is incomplete, lacking and at the same time exuberant and overflowing, that produces a narrative even if it is only generated in the flow of fragments; a form crossed by desire in which the artist tries to overturn all the aspects that concern him, from the most personal and biographical questions, to the political and historical, as well as those related to the language with which he works and the processes that give rise to the works. His pieces and installations use a wide variety of media, from the bricoleur's own constructions (evoking the traditions of architecture, sculpture and do it yourself design), to other more narrative media such as photography, video or written text.
Txomin Badiola (Bilbao, 1957) lives and works in Bilbao. Awarded the Gure Artea prize in 1986 and the ICARO prize for the most outstanding young artist in 1987, his work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions, including PRIMER PROFORMA 2010 BADIOLA EUBA PREGO 30 ejercicios 40 días 8 horas al día at MUSAC, Léon, in 2010; La Forme Qui Pense at the Museé d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France, in 2007, and Malas Formas 1990-2002 at MACBA, Barcelona, and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao in 2002. His latest work is Malformalismo, a book published by Caniche.
