Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) has won the 9th Ankaria Artist’s Book Prize with his work “Venecia”, which has attracted the interest of 220 artists from all over the world.
Almudena Lobera (Madrid, 1984) won second prize with her work “Line Spacing / Interlineado”.
“Venice”, the winning work, is a collection of artist’s books that Ignasi Aballí has conceived for the 59th Venice Biennale, currently underway, and which forms part of his Corrección project, curated by Bea Espejo, which is being developed both in the Spanish Pavilion and in the streets of the city of canals.
“These books become an unexpected guide to the city and provide a personal correction by the artist to the tourist vision that is usually projected. A map marks the itinerary that must be followed to bring together the six books, available in as many establishments in an unknown Venice in which Aballí invites us to lose ourselves in order to find”, explains Espejo.
Ignasi Aballí’s work is a reflection on the limits of the artistic and its relationship with everyday life, from which the artist draws most of his materials.
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