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Francesc Abad

Francesc Abad (born 1944 in Terrassa, Catalonia) is a Spanish artist known for conceptual art, body art, and land art.

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Career

Abad studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Terrassa and at the Center for Pedagogical Documentation in Paris. In 1972, he settled in New York. He entered the art world through painting, characterized by the simplification of forms and the reduction of color, before moving on to conceptual art. [1] [2]

In recent years, most of his art is multimedia artistic work. His exhibition on El Camp de la Bota  [ ca ], [3] a project based on the events of the Camp de la Bota in Barcelona, the beach where between 1939 and 1952 the Franco regime shot at least 1704 people, stands out. Abad wanted to rescue these events from oblivion after the works of the Universal Forum of Cultures in 2004 on the grounds of such a bad memory for the people of Barcelona. The exhibition is a collection of documents and testimonies of relatives or friends of the victims, and was presented in Girona, El Prat de Llobregat, Manresa and Barcelona; on July 27, 2007, the artist donated the work to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). [4] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Abad, Francesc | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona". www.macba.cat. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  2. "Archivo Francesc Abad | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. 1 2 Barcelona, UAB-Universitat Autònoma de. ""No one ever explains the loser's side of the story"". UAB Barcelona. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  4. "Francesc Abad". CCCB. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  5. Francesc Abad/Xavier Nueno (2017). Napa(s) : persistir en lo inacabado. Heras (Cantabria/España). ISBN   978-84-946128-3-1. OCLC   1006403299.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. Guillem Serrahima (2017). Panorama : Francesc Abad. Ariadna Serrahima, Simon Williams. Barcelona. ISBN   978-84-945901-2-2. OCLC   1089772894.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)