Dates: 31 October 2013 – 16 February 2014
Curated by: Lucía Agirre and Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya
Galleries: Third floor
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Garmendia, Maneros Zabala, Salaberria. Process and Method, an exhibition that examines the careers of three Basque creators who were born in the late 1960s and the 1970s whose practice shares a common interest in history as fodder for inquiry and revision. The show surveys the careers of these artists via their most important works, showing the mutual feedback among them, and it also displays three new works created especially for the Museum, which will become part of the Bilbao collection.
The analysis of history as a way to evidence its contradictions and ambiguities is a shared strategy in the artistic practice of Iñaki Garmendia, Erlea Maneros Zabala, and Xabier Salaberria. Beyond deconstructing the history itself, these artists more subtly and imperceptibly express a “shared sensibility,” such that the processes of re-creation, appropriation, and reinterpretation are part of their approaches to the concept of art.