Agustin Ibarrola Goicoechea - Artist Info

About Agustin Ibarrola Goicoechea

  • Biography

    Painter and sculptor key to understanding the development of avant-garde art in Spain during the second half of the 20th century, Agustín Ibarrola was born in Bilbao, and soon began his training at the School of Arts and Crafts in his hometown. In 1948, when he was only eighteen years old, he held his first individual exhibition in the Biscayan capital, the success of which led him to move to Madrid. There he continued his training in the workshop of Daniel Vázquez Díaz, and began to develop his own style based on the combination of the avant-garde with the Basque pictorial tradition.

    In 1950, when he was twenty years old, he met Jorge Oteiza, an artist who brought him closer to constructivism and had a key ...

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