Antoni Abad | Lleida, 1956. Lives in Barcelona.
Abad graduated in Art History in 1979, and began to show immediately. After a series of "braided paintings" which came apart in three dimensions (1983), Abad renounced the wall and converted to sculpture, using industrial materials and everyday objects ñwhether soft (plastics, foam), rigid (metallic bookshelf modules), or articulated anñ rectractible elements (folding chairs, knives, carpenter's measuring sticks and measuring tapes) with which he creates metamorphic and flexible sculptures, with the implicit addition of movement (though not in the sense of kinetic sculpture; rather, one that might reveal itself through photographs, videos or staged interactions). After "Minor Measures" (1994) he incorporated audiovisual and multimedia elements, which took on a greater role. His original positions, fundamentally formal in nature, have given way to others with more subjective and metaphorical implications. However, both in his installations and projections and in his telematic pieces, he considers himself a "a sculptor more than ever."