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Artium Presents the Exhibition “Desde Ayacata” by Juan Hidalgo

Juan Hidalgo Desde Ayacata - This artist, born in the Canary Islands, exhibits 70 photographic actions, objects and ambiences in which irony, humour and sex play a leading part.

VITORIA-GASTEIZ, SPAIN – This artist, born
in the
Canary Islands, exhibits 70 photographic actions, objects and ambiences
in which
irony, humour and sex play a leading part. The works were created on his
return
to Gran Canaria in the late nineties. ARTIUM, Basque Centre-Museum of
Contemporary Art presents the exhibition by Juan Hidalgo Desde Ayacata
(North
Gallery, from August 29 2010),
a sample of the work the last
twelve
years of one of the major reference models of Spanish art of the last
five
decades. An unclassifiable artist and, partly for that reason, a little
awkward
for the art world, Juan Hidalgo has remained faithful throughout that
period to
a number of ideas which many contemporary young artists use as an
immediate
reference and which nevertheless, for a long time, were immersed in a
cloud of
incomprehension and indifference.