Key facts
- Born
- Abel Luján Gutierrez , ( 1988-04-01 ) 1 April 1988 (age 38) , Madrid , Spain
- Known for
- Performance Art , Process Art , Body Art
- Notable work
- Empathy and Prostitution (2013) Amen or The Pederasty (2015) The Fathers (2016) The Death of The Artist (2018)
- Movement
- Conceptual art , Performance Art, Process Art
- Website
- abelazcona .art
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Madrid
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- contemporary art
- Movement
- process art
- Official website
- www.abelazcona.art
- Image
- Retrato del artista Abel Azcona -1.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Abel Azcona
- date of birth
- 1988-04-01
- has works in the collection
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 101034
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Encyclopedic overview
Abel Azcona Marcos (born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art. His work includes installations, sculptures, and video art. He is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art. 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.
Azcona's works have been exhibited at the Venetian Arsenal, the Contemporary Art Center in Málaga, the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Art League, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. His work has also been exhibited at the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka and Taipei, the Lyon Biennale, the Miami International Performance Festival and the Bangladesh Live Art Biennale. The Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abel Azcona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.