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THE FOOLOSOPHER

HANS & FRITZ CONTEMPORARY is pleased to present the exhibition THE FOOLOSOPHER by the artist MARC BADÍA. The body of his work focuses on the hermeneutics of images in a pictorial practice and installation, using humour and mystery as tools of criticism.
Hans & Fritz Contemporary
Sep 4th – 29th 2018
Barcelona, Carrer de Sant Gil, 17Map & Full Hours
Opening Reception: Tuesday, Sep. 4th, 8pm -11pm
, 'Life Socks,' 2018, Hans & Fritz Contemporary

Marc Badia Quintana

Life Socks, 2018

Hans & Fritz Contemporary

£750

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, 'More Annoying Than a Sptoy Ad,' 2017, Hans & Fritz Contemporary

Marc Badia Quintana

More Annoying Than a Sptoy Ad, 2017

Hans & Fritz Contemporary

£3,200

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, 'My Heroes Have Always Been Fools (Potato 1),' 2018, Hans & Fritz Contemporary

Marc Badia Quintana

My Heroes Have Always Been Fools (Potato 1), 2018

Hans & Fritz Contemporary

£300

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Press Release

My heroes have always been fools. The kind of fools that know how to tell a bad joke. The kind of jokes that leave you with a bitter taste. Bitter because there’s no possible utopia in them and because when laughing one accepts that everything is absurd, that the language is orthopaedic and the norm is arbitrary. In a way, it dismembers any elitism in the culture and leaves the intellectual tense and looking like an idiot. They don’t seem to stand the idea that someone can laugh outside the axioms that they have established as the peak of the sacred, even knowing there’s no such thing. That’s why they are tense, because the fact that bad jokes work, proves that everything is absurd, even their strengths built with so much effort. My heroes have always been fools...

Marc Badía Quintana
July 2018, Barcelona

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