Pep Agut

Started his career as an artist around 1979. He is one of the Spanish artists emerging with more strength in the renovate scene of the nineties. Agut applies to any support, technique, craft or format required to realize his projects. He has exhibited his work either in solo or group shows in big art-events and museums like Biennale di Venezia, Sidney Biennale, Prospekt, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, or MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona among others. His work is represented in remarkable private and public, national and international collections.

Pep Agut understands the space of art as properly the public space itself, aside of any epoch conditions or culture particularities. Settled down on his double background in the practice of painting and photography Agut focuses very soon his interest on the problems of representation. Worried on the modes of production of meaning and sceptical with the rhetorical strategies in use to bring art productions into public scene, Agut develops a complex and personal process of work.

Searching for a wide range of techniques and materials and submitting his ideas to observation along large periods of time within an arduous process of writing and overwriting, Agut rubbers out any narrative form in first person and elaborates a complex non-stylistic index of generic models of work which permits him to withdraw of systematic production of artefacts. After the big amounts of creative materials inventoried Agut can replace any moment of his own artistic history to the present and display it as a site-specific answer to each opportunity rebuilding the devices and structures to articulate his oeuvre in the space of art as a passage for the diverse public audiences.