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Title:	Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Ignasi Aballí
Date:	3/6/2022 - 6/26/2022
Address:	Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75205
Location:	Dallas, TX
Hours:	Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Cost/Cover:	free - $12
Web Page:	https://meadowsmuseumdallas.org/exhibitions/ignasi-aballi/
Contact Info:	214.768.2516

Details:

The museum’s commitment to the contemporary takes more robust shape with its presentation of work by the Spanish conceptual artist Ignasi Aballí (b. 1958), who is representing Spain at the 59th Venice Biennale. Aballí is a conceptual artist whose multimedia work often incorporates unusual materials that challenge the viewer’s perception of reality while raising questions about transience and permanence. The Meadows will exhibit his series Palabras Vacías (Empty Words) (2020), which confronts the viewer with 27 individual, galvanized iron plates hung at eye level. Cut into the metal plates are words such as “INVISIBLE” and “ABANDONED”—and other adjectives that reference being invisible or forgotten—thereby imbuing the negative space with meaning; what he refers to (both literally and figuratively) as “empty words.” The resulting tension between the form and meaning of the words creates a dialogue between language and image, between signified and signifier. Confronted by empty space, the viewer is, in a way, seeing the meaning of the words rather than the words themselves. Palabras Vacías is hung differently each time it is exhibited, and the artist himself will work with museum staff to oversee the installation in the Meadows’s galleries when he is on site in early March.