Third Text

Guy Brett

This monograph on David Medalla brings together a fascinating and ephemeral body of artistic work which escapes a simple definition. Born in Manila in the Philippines in 1942, and based mainly in London since 1960, David Medalla distinguished himself internationally as a major innovator of the avant-garde. Over the years his work embraced a multitude of enquiries and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world. Proud of his effort to remain independent of the commercial, bureaucratic and chauvinistic pressures of the art market, he was nevertheless an international creative force – travelling, encouraging artists, creating groups and exhibition spaces, and evolving his own art which strove towards the emergence of a new kind of transnational and polymorphic culture. Medalla died in December 2020.

‘Medalla’s work proposes an endless story, that of a perpetuum mobile, a universe where particles rebound ad vitam aeternam’   Yve-Alain Bois

Published in 1995
Paperback
216pp with 68 colour and 117 b&w iIIustrations
ISBN 0 947753 06 0

Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla can be purchased from Central Books