ASIER MENDIZABAL. COMPARATEMA

All the material in this exhibition refers to and draws on a series of articles by the French paleoanthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan. The author of “Gesture and Speech” proposed the influential idea of the parallel evolution and mutual determination of manual gestures along the symbolic capacity that for a long time seemed to define the human. Technique and speech. Language and the hand. I recall here two moments in which Leroi-Gourhan’s work refers directly to hands and which, each for a reason, produce in me an almost sentimental affect.

THE COLLECTOR IS PRESENT. ASIER MENDIZABAL IN ASIER TAPIA’S COLLECTION. 14.05 > 16.05.2026

Our proposal for The Collector is Present, an initiative launched by Art Barcelona and linked to the annual Barcelona Gallery Weekend, is inserted in Asier Mendizabal’s new solo exhibition Comparateme, which opens on May 14. The idea is to respond to Mendizabal’s work Stilfragen (crania) (2016), in the collection of Barcelona-based Asier Tapia, by linking it to one or two more of Mendizabal’s works (not part of the new show), and to articulate a formal and conceptual exercise with the complicity of the collector Asier Tapia, Asier Mendizabal, and ProjecteSD.