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Not all that moves is red (Telón) #1

Asier Mendizabal

2012

Sewed cloth

Reference: ACF0984

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Asier Mendizabal (Ordizia, Basque Country, 1973) started out working with sculpture before venturing into other art forms such as video, text, silkscreen printing and photography. He uses hybrid formats combining form and concept to explore the basic notions at the heart of his work: rethinking sculpture (closely linked to the tradition of Basque sculpture and the notion of a monument) and investigating social and collective structures, including political cinema, rock music and popular culture, by analysing the ideology that accompanies any form, action or gesture. Drawing from both the logic of film editing (joining and sequencing different shots to create a story) and the modular arrangement of early 20th-century Constructivism, Not All That Moves Is Red (Telón) #1 features a cloth made out of red and black flags divided into geometric strips. Almost Tetris- or jigsaw-like in form, this piece takes the symbol of the flag and turns it into an abstract composition. Driven more by aesthetics than ideology, this combination blurs its role as a symbol of group identification (the colours of anarchism) and tries out other, ostensibly undefined meanings. The large-scale cloth hangs from the wall and even falls onto part of the ground—a deliberate gesture that challenges its two-dimensional presentation to become an object with volume. Like a curtain, it shows everything and yet also keeps something hidden. In Barcelona, this work formed part of Asier Mendizabal’s solo exhibition at the ProjecteSD gallery in 2012.