EVA International is Ireland’s leading contemporary art biennial and is currently in its 36th year. This year’s biennial features a 12-week programme of exhibitions and events to be held all over the city of Limerick, which this year has been designated Irish City of Culture. Spain will be represented by artists Asier Mendizabal and Martí Anson, with the support of AC/E. Curated by Egyptian art critic and curator Bassam El Baroni, “Agitationism” seeks new approaches to the place of justice in art ”, through a newly-coined word. Asier Mendizabal’s contribution is based on earlier works of his, which he re-contextualises with the idea of a palimpsest.
The reorganisation of his own references and thoughts on processes and conventions involved in creating a sculpture will be transformed into an installation accompanied by texts as just another element. Martí Anson’s project shows how the advertisements of a savings bank, later a bank, and a tram line take the viewer on an iconographic tour of his town, Mataró, over the course of half a decade, having a permanent visual presence in its landmark sites, and how they subsequently disappear. This narrative plays on time and memory, but also on the visitor’s disconcertment.
The reorganisation of his own references and thoughts on processes and conventions involved in creating a sculpture will be transformed into an installation accompanied by texts as just another element. Martí Anson’s project shows how the advertisements of a savings bank, later a bank, and a tram line take the viewer on an iconographic tour of his town, Mataró, over the course of half a decade, having a permanent visual presence in its landmark sites, and how they subsequently disappear. This narrative plays on time and memory, but also on the visitor’s disconcertment.