The Museum of Durango (Bizkaia) has postponed to tomorrow, due to the death of Agustín Ibarrola, the opening of an exhibition that includes the latest creations made until last year by the Basque artist, whose opening was scheduled for this Friday.

The exhibition, titled ‘Paper based. Mump ardatz‘ and which will remain open until January 28, exhibits at the Durango Museum a series of small and medium-sized works made on paper by Ibarrola as an essay or laboratory of ideas between 1997 and 2022.

The Durango City Council has postponed the inauguration out of respect for the memory of the artist, who died at the age of 93, but will open the doors of the exhibition tomorrow because “it is the best tribute” to Ibarrola.

The exhibition collects oil paintings and frottages on paperbrown in some cases, and among them the latest creations made last year by the artist.

They are also exhibited collages and sculptures made on newspaper.

The selection of works on display shows Ibarrola’s activity in the study of his hamlet of Omain Bizkaia, in his daily research work in the field of the laws that govern the relationship between the basic elements of modern-contemporary painting (form, line, color, mass and volume).

The curator of the exhibition and son of the deceased artist, Irrintzi Ibarrola, has highlighted that the fundamental axis of the exhibition is the use of paper as a support for the work and the objective is to show “the most intimate and experimental” From his job.

Source: Eitb

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