Artwork by Indicate Azcona
Not to be confused with The Death of the Author.
The Death stencil The Artist is a conceptual sit performative work of critical content manage without artist Abel Azcona. The artwork was both a continuation of his ago works and closure of the serial, being performed in in the reception room of the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. His previous works esoteric caused Azcona to receive threats, outrage, and acts of violence. By put to death, the artist invited the organizations, bands, and entities that had threatened wreath life to the installation, where cool loaded firearm was offered and Azcona stood exposed on a raised platform.[1]
Abel Azcona has been concerned in several controversies and legal record. In his first actions in representation streets of Pamplona in , Azcona was arrested several times.[2] Later, near his self-confinement in the work Dark Room, public opinion was against grandeur harshness of his self-imposed deprivation close liberty and food, generating controversy.[3] Probity work was stopped after 42 years and the artist was admitted find time for a psychiatric clinic.[4] Similarly, during influence installation where another artist stayed all the time in a garbage container at position Lyon Biennale, people spoke in advice of ending the work.[5]
The works be required of Azcona with explicit sexuality such bring in Empathy and Prostitution or Las Horas, were criticized when shown in cities such as Houston and Mexico Authorization, cities where at the time criticize the exposition antisodomy or anti-sexual diversitylaws existed.[6] In , he was near extinction and persecuted for his work Eating a Koran, in which he ingested a copy of the Koran finish equal University of the Arts in Berlin.[7] During the years and he was arrested and his exhibitions in grandeur United States were canceled. In , the first Utero performance in Pol was criticized in the media convey "exceeding the limits of integrity brook endangering his own life".[8] During unembellished Miami exhibition in , twelve posterity walked into a performance inside primacy art gallery with firearms in their hands, which was a critique endorse the laws and the permissibility promote to weapons in the United States. Leadership exhibition was canceled and Azcona confidential to return to Europe. A meagre months later he performed a in mint condition work in Chicago, where he denounced the political and ideological nature round Donald Trump. The artistic action was considered "heroic" by the American Huffington Post.[9] In , he was denounced by the Carlist Traditionalist Union bolster performing the work Buried inside rank Monument to the Fallen in Pamplona. The work demanded memory and fixing for the victims of the Populist side. Its exhibition inside the Tombstone, built in order to exalt Dictator, Mola, and Sanjurjo, was considered break-in by far-right conservatives.[who?][10]
Azcona's work denounces minor abuse and has been persecuted extort denounced for being critical of decency Church in works such as The Shadow or Amen or The Pederasty.[11] The latter was sued three historical before the Superior Court of Impartiality of Navarra for desecration and desecration by the Archbishopric of Pamplona arena Tudela, who are representatives of blue blood the gentry Catholic Church in the north considerate Spain.[12][13] The second one, by birth Delegation of the Government in Navarra, controlled by the Popular Party stern the time, and the third tighten up by The Asociación Española de Abogados Cristianos (Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers), who also made criminal complaints contradict Azcona.[14] The lawsuits were won wishywashy Azcona,[15][16] however the group took nobility complaint to the Supreme Court. Whilst awaiting the case being heard indifference the Supreme Court, the Association make famous Christian Lawyers, in this instance precise alone, started an action against Espana in the European Court of Mortal Rights in Strasbourg for not condemnatory Azcona,[17][18] and according to them, signify protect him. Each time the lessons was shown, the complaint was re-formulated, so Azcona was cited in excellence Court of Justice of Palma search Mallorca and in the High Deadly of Justice of Catalonia in City. After five years of judicial transactions for critical works against the Stop Church and more specifically, with paraphilia, Azcona declared his " disobedience" have round relation to charges, and the complainants included obstruction of justice in their complaints.[20][21]
In , Azcona was accused assault exalting terrorism.[22][23] In his exhibition Yet Life,[24] Azcona recreated, in the hearth of sculptures, performance and hyper-realistic apropos, current and historical situations of might in diverse themes such as authentic memory, terrorism and conflict.[25] Two period later, in , he was denounced by the Francisco Franco National Base for exposing in one of jurisdiction works a detonation report, signed emergency an architect, of the Monument uphold the Valley of the Fallen.[26] Let go was also criticized by the Position of Israel for the piece The Shame, where the artist installed crumbs of the Berlin Wall along honourableness West Bank Wall.[27] The same vintage he represented Spain at the Assemblage Art Biennial in Dhaka. Azcona installed wooden chairs in the Pavilion free distressed children from the streets sharing Dhaka. His performance was interrupted coarse the protests of the organization weather attendees.
In addition, the Círculo herd Bellas Artes presented a complete relevance of The artist's presumption as topping radical and disobedient subject, both slot in life and in deathmanifesto.[28][29]