- Agustín Ibarrola
Agustín Ibarrola (born 1930) is a Spanish
Basque painter andsculptor .He was born in
Basauri (Biscay ),Spain .In 1948, the Delegation of Biscay and the city council ofBilbao granted him a scholarship to study inMadrid , where he lived until 1955.He had vaious exhibitions in Spain and in 1955 was transferred to
Paris . In 1957, he was a member of the groupEquipment 57 with Duarte, Serrano, and others. This was in the time of the constructivism.Due to his
communist militancy, he was imprisoned for several years in the prison of Towns. In 1963, when an exhibition of his work inLondon was mounted, a critic compared his work withGoya 's "".In the 1980s he began sculpting; his singular vision of the pictorial work the
Forest of Oma , nearGuernica , perhaps his best known work.His work combines the Basque spirit with the social commitment of the humblest workers, people who tend towards
expressionism .One of his last and most spectacular works was "Buckets of the Memory", in the port of
Llanes .In the last years he has been tied to the founder of the platform
Basta Already! , a civic fight againstterrorism in the Basque Country. It is known that Ibarrola is persecuted by terrorist organizationETA .He has been awarded the Medal of the Order of the Constitutional Merit.
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