'Art d'Acció' by Oscar Abril

Can a novel become reality?
Can a novel expand to become an exhibition?
Can a novel be performative?
Can a novel be read as an action art score?
Even more, can we experiment with an action literature?
Let’s try it.

Oscar Abril (Barcelona, ​​February 3, 1972 – January 6, 2007) is one of the most unknown famous artists of his generation, that of Barcelona’s actionism of the nineties. Oscar Abril was part of that lost generation, which was made up of action art artists such as Borja Zabala, Lluís Alabern, the C-72R, Jaume Alcalde or Pere Lluís Pla Buxo, who moved through places such as the 7 i 7 theater, La Papa or the Banana Factory and who performed at the CLUB7, the Revista Parlada or at the tribute to Arthur Cravan at the Palau de la Virreina.

CLUB9 and Arxiu Aire retrospectively reveal in this exhibition part of his performance production, both in terms of his few public actions and those he carried out anonymously. The exhibition is complemented by documentary material about that artistic moment (the performers who were part of that context and their audience or the countercultural spaces of that post-Olympic Barcelona) and the availability for visitors of a novel, still unpublished, about the artist’s life.