Elena Asins Rodríguez (Madrid, March 2, 1940-Azpiroz, December 14, 2015) is an artist to remember in space. Your work seems so fragile, so nearing an end, that it seems that if no one cares for you, you'll lose it right away. That is not the case, of course, it will last longer than you and I.
In 2011 he exhibited at the Reina Sofía Museum of Spain. Oihana Garro, who then made art reviews in Berria, wrote: “I find it a mystery in the art world as some artists get to the top and others don’t. So far, Asins’ work has remained rather hidden, although he has performed over 40 individual exhibitions, and it needed to be shown. His work mixes the constructivist tradition of the vanguard of the twentieth century, the information theory of the 1960s and computer art, for which he also goes back to optical art and minimalism. In short, Asins is a pioneer in the art that is carried out through the computer and, at the same time, one of the main references of conceptual art with the main idea”.
He studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts, worked in Madrid, in Stuttgart, New York. In 1980, when he left for New York, he met Noam Chomsky, and when he taught him his work, he said: “This is a language!”
Pioneering and referent, but outside the art world. He had taken the house in Azpirotz, reformed it and died there. “Art either transcends or is not art. That’s why my work has nothing to do with fashions, and that’s why I live here in Azpirotz, because I don’t want that other aspect.”
That other aspect: the daily swirl, the noise of the world, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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