Luis Vidal

LUIS VIDAL (Barcelona, 1970).
"Burrow network", 2024. Series "Burrows".
Glazed ceramic sculpture.
Provenance: Alzueta gallery.
Measurements: 67 x 42 x 30 cm.

In his sculptures of the series "Burrows", Luis Vidal awakened the curiosity of the spectator through semi-hidden narratives, reflecting the duality between home and prison, protection and claustrophobia, hermeticism and intimacy, encrypting in the burrows an ambivalent symbolism.

Luis Vidal is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists. His work, of high social commitment, revolves around controversial issues, focusing on themes of social denunciation and confronting us with the multiple inequalities and injustices, both economic and social, that prevail in the society in which we live. Luis Vidal moves with ease in the fields of sculpture, installation, leather engraving and drawing. He also circulates his work in the most prestigious museums and galleries internationally. Among his most relevant projects was "Euroafricans" (2007), which consisted in the production of a new "currency" by the different local communities. The banknotes produced (60000 "Euroafricans") were auctioned at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, raising 60000€, which were subsequently invested in the community. Other of his projects denounce the mistreatment of women or the inequality of the world's wealth. Throughout his extensive career, Vidal has exhibited at the La Caixa Collection in Barcelona, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul, the Arp Museum in Remagen (Germany), the Vestfossen Kunst Labotatorium Collection in Oslo, at the National Gallery of Georgetown in Grand Cayman, at the Vila Casas Private Foundation in Barcelona, at the Yves Klein Foundation in Arizona, at the Museum of Modern Art in Girona, at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslauten in Germany and at the Bergen Kunstforening in Berden (Germany). Selection of solo exhibitions: 2013 "Eat me Alice- The Digestion". Hamburg Art Week. Hamburg.2012 "Romanistik und zeitgenössische Kunst" Hamburg. Germany.2011 "Souvenirs" Mito Gallery. Barcelona. Arte Santander, (one man show Mito Gallery), Santander. Spain 2010 "Little Artist in Pigs's Land". Galerie Binz & Krämer. Cologne. Cologne. Germany. Pigs's Monument, AMP Gallery. Turin. Italy. 2009 Eat me Alice, Mito Gallery. Barcelona. Spain. L' Arca di Papa Noe" AMP Gallery. Turin. Italy. 2008 "Little Artist in Pigs's Land". Six Gallery. Milan. Milan. Italy. 2007 "I.D.E.F.S.". Christian Dam Gallery. Copenhagen, Denmark. Selection of group exhibitions: 2012 Berlin Liste. MITO Gallery. Berlin. Germany.Arte Fiera. MITO Gallery. Bologne. Italy.SWAB. Mito Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.COLLECTED. Binz & Krämer Gallery. Cologne. Germany.THE OTHERS. AMP Gallery. Torino. Italy. Just Madrid. MITO Gallery. Madrid. Spain.ART COLOGNE. Binz & Krämer Gallery. Cologne. Germany. 2011 "Biomorph! ? Hans Arp im Dialog mit aktuellen Künstlerpositionen". Arp Museum. Bahnhof Rolandseck. Germany. SWAB. Barcelona. Spain. "Two and Fro" Mito Gallery. Barcelona.2010 SWAB. Mito Gallery. Barcelona.