Zigor
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Kepa Akixo, also known as Zigor, is a sculptor, photographer, artist and poet. He was born in 1947 in Aretxabaleta (located in the Spanish province of Gipuzkoa), in the Southern Basque Country.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1947 births, 20th-century French sculptors and 21st-century French sculptors.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Aretxabaleta
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Official website
- www.zigor-art.com
- Image
- Portrait Zigor.jpg
- Residence
- Biarritz
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- date of birth
- 1948-00-00
- pseudonym
- Zigor
- birth name
- Kepa Akixo
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early life, political activism and writing
- Photography and travels
- An appointment with sculpture
- Body of work and artistic process
- The sketchbook
- Painting or the extension of a stroke
- Sculpture
- From infinitely small to monumental
- Chronology of his works
- Sculpture, major exhibitions
- Photography, major exhibitions
- Monumental sculptures, private collections
- Monumental sculptures, public collections
- Publications (edit)
- Documentary films (edit)
- References
- External links
Kepa Akixo, also known as Zigor, is a sculptor, photographer, artist and poet. He was born in 1947 in Aretxabaleta (located in the Spanish province of Gipuzkoa), in the Southern Basque Country.
His poems were published as of 1973, and he travelled the world as a photojournalist for various news outlets and magazines, as well as the Capa press agency until 1982. In 1983, he began sculpting and joined a community of contemporaries from the region. Zigor draws inspiration from his native environment, exploring thematics of naturalistic, organized chaos and interconnectedness through sculptures, photographs, paintings and poems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zigor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.