Txomin Badiola was born in 1957 in Bilbao where he currently lives and works. Galerie Nathalie Obadia is pleased to organize the first exhibition of Txomin Badiola in France.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) has just dedicated a retrospective to him.
Txomin Badiola's work consists mainly of installations and photographic works.
Very often, one can enter into wooden "habitacles" where television screens are installed broadcasting videos. Around, in the room, are hung photographs.
It is a minimal universe, quite cold where violence, social and sexual discrimination are always present.
If Pedro Almodovar, to whom he is close, describes Spain with the humor and derision that hides the violence of human relations, Txomin Badiola goes even further and shows all the difficulty of contemporary Spain to assume its different politics and the change of morals.
As with Antonio Tapies and Antonio Saura, who in their paintings have so well described the violence of Franco's Spain, Txomin Badiola's plastic strength is characterized by the austere architecture of his homes and the violence of his photographs.
His work is an original testimony of the difficulty of being Spanish, Basque, intellectual in a world still traditional.
Txomin Badiola, outside the pictorial field that has made so many great Hispanic artists, gives us a new look at contemporary Spain.