Leopoldo Ferrán (Irun, Guipúzcoa, 1963) and Agustin Otero (San Adrián del Valle, León, 1960). After an initial training period in the Basque Country, two years in Florence, two in Paris and stayed in the south of Senegal, this pair of artists has established his studio in northern Spain, first in Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa) and after in Ituren (Navarra) in a privileged sanctuary at the foot of Mount Mendaur, where they project their latest and most ambitious sculptural-architectural works. In 1994 They decided to join our common Interests Generating with the purpose of installation works in order to Thoroughly Investigate and study the language of art. They Set Out from the idea of places Inhabited by questions in Which to create answers Able to generate a new creative universe.
Their work have been exhibited recently among others by:
Museo ARTIUM, Vitoria. Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao. Koldo Mitxelena San Sebastián. Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Ginebra. The White Box. New York, EEUU. Monasterio de Prado, Valladolid. Museo Zuloaga, Segovia. Chapelle Saint-Louis, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris. Bienal de Venecia, Mostra de Arquitectura, Venecia 2002 - 2006. VII Bienal de El Cairo, Egipto. Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Spazio Temporaneo d’Arte, Rovereto, Italia. Centre d'Art La Panera. Lérida. MARCO, Vigo. Galería dels Ángels, Barcelona. Galería Raquel Ponce. Madrid. Galería Moisés Pérez de Albeniz, Pamplona. Galería Salvador Díaz, Madrid
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