About his Work

Agustín Ibarrola symbolises a firm commitment to art through a wide range of actions in a long, busy career in which links to the natural work are an essential feature.

One of the basic features of his work is its connection with the places where he produces it, in terms of both the physical and the emotional setting.

All Ibarrola's output, from sculptures to paintings and engravings, is enriched by the use of materials, forms of expression and multi-disciplinary knowledge which are hard to classify under any single art movement but which have enabled him to configure a real laboratory of ideas and expressions all his own that characterise his oeuvre.

It is precisely his markedly heterogeneous nature that has enabled him to undertake projects that go beyond the rigid confines of individual styles and tendencies. Works such as the Oma Forest (1982-2003), the Painted Stones (which no longer survive) at the Tremoia sinkholes in Gautegiz-Arteaga (1993), the Stones and Trees intervention in Allariz (Ourense, 1999), the Memory Cubes in the harbour in Llanes (Asturias, 2001-2006), an installation comprising more than 80 polychromed, carved sleepers on the tailings pile of the Prosper Haniel coal mine in Bottrop (in the Ruhr region of Germany, 2002) and the Painted Stones in Garoza (Muñogalindo, Ávila, 2005-2009) all go beyond pictorial and sculptural art to become true aesthetic experiences.