300 Words on Ignasi Aballi

100 words Calendario 2003 (Diario) [Calender 2003 (Daily)] is a set of twelve panels featuring the pictures that were published on the front page of the major Spanish newspaper El País which was read by the artist every day in the year 2003. The pictures depict events around the world (public time) in a year, from the most global aspects to very local ones too. In the panels, each one of which corresponds to one month of the year, the pictures have been arranged chronologically as in a calendar, the days of the month being substituted by the “Picture of the day”.

200 words Un año [A year ], relates to the previous work Errores, in which Aballi depicted balls of crumpled-up newspaper the outcome of the errors made by him during the creative process. Un año depicts 365 balls of crumpled-up paper of each of the 365 pages of a calendar. All that remains discernable in these balls are a few fragments of incomplete texts, evoking the day of the week, a month... In this manner, Aballí offers the image of a year, the daily ritual of tearing off, crumpling-up and throwing away a piece of time that already belongs to the past.

300 words Listados, has a similar basic structure, employing newspaper clippings, but this time the cuttings are taken from news features that mention a span of time and are extracted from several different papers. Every span of time possible in a year (from twelve months to a second) appears. These time spans that relate to real situations are taken out of context (the news) and transformed into simple and neutral temporal intervals. Aballi has also created other Listados by collecting, classifying and arranging news clippings that printed different figures: amounts of people, victims, injured, losses, percentages, money, time and violence.