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second activity in the series of conversations with artists organised within the framework of the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló.

At this event, the exhibition curator María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco will converse with Ignasi Aballí, one of the leading conceptual artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. His work is on display in the “Turn of the century” section of the show.

All lectures take place at 7 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis.  Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the  website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) studied Fine Arts in Barcelona, the city where he lives and works. Interested in the limits of representation and perception, he often works with a minimalist language, using minimal interventions or almost imperceptible modification, both on coloured surfaces and in the incorporation of everyday elements such as dust and light. Aballí’s work feeds on the excess of images and seems to seek their negative. As he himself says, it is about “doing more with less”. In many cases, the artist disappears as a subject and allows the accumulation of dust or the corrosive action of the sun on the materials to create the work. On other occasions, however, he becomes a collector or archivist, meticulously arranging information and data extracted from the press, which he presents as lists or conceptual binomials and sometimes as a tribute to anonymity.

Since 1990, he has shown his work at institutions like the Museu Serralves in Porto (2005), Ikon Gallery in Birmingham (2006), ZKM in Karlsruhe (2006), the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sâo Paulo in Brazil (2010), Artium in Vitoria (2012), the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2016), the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá (2017), Kula in Split (2018), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (2018). Major retrospectives of his work have been held, including Ignasi Aballí: 0-24h at the MACBA in Barcelona (2005) and without beginning / without end at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2025). In 2022 he represented Spain at the Venice Biennale. His work can be found in the collections of Artium in Vitoria, the Centre d’Art la Panera in Lleida, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the MACBA in Barcelona, among others. In 2020, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the MACBA, he donated to the museum the work Enderroc, which had featured in one of the first MACBA exhibitions (1996) and now hangs on a wall in the atrium of the Meier Building.