Nacho Criado. Agentes colaboradores

Nacho Criado (Mengíbar, Jaén, 1943 – Madrid, 2010) is considered one of the central figures in Spanish experimental art over the last 40 years, although he himself questioned this title when he received the National Prize for the Plastic Arts in 2009. Formally, his work analyses the material behavior and physical evolution of the art object, its processual and spatial aspects. Starting out, in the 1960s, with the formal principles of minimalism, as seen in pieces such as Homenaje a Rothko, (1970-1994), his work would later evolve towards the use of poor materials, discarded and easily obtained, of a pronouncedly povera nature. In parallel he would develop a conceptual interest that looked into the relationship between the idea and its formal materialization, the passage of time, the future, identity and the hybrid condition of artistic practice. All of this links him to the figure of Marcel Duchamp, who inspired Prêt-à-porter (MaDe in…), (1976).