Nico Baixas created a line of personal artistic work that he signs as Gos-com-fuig. With this alter ego, he uses his hands and body to paint and create abstract and figurative photographs, videos, sculptures and multimedia performances that give the viewer a lot of freedom of interpretation, providing the feeling of freedom and openness that Nico admired in his early influences. This series of works consists of a collection of a thousand hand postures that show all the shapes that can be created with both hands.
AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY NICO BAIXAS
Chiromorphose Series
This work explores the sculptural capacities of the hands. Stripping them from their symbolism or the functions for which they are normally used, Nico Baixas explored them like someone examining a foreign body, searching for their limits and pushing them in different directions. To do this, he used opposed sculptural concepts like straight-curved, and simple-complex; searched for the interconnection between fingers, and the balance between distances, and tried to generate geometric shapes and textures. At times, the artist would find shapes that were like doors opening onto a myriad of new possibilities. Throughout the process, he discovered a world of fingers that transformed reality, taking it to another level.
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Nico Baixas, also known as Gos-com-fuig, is a creative interdisciplinary artist from Spain, whose work focuses solely on the hands. Born into a family of puppeteers, Nico started performing at a very young age with his parent's company, La Claca, which collaborated with the famous painter Joan Miró. As a result, Nico spent most of his childhood in art museums. Inspired by the works of Calder, Giacometti, Mondrian, Lewitt, and others, decides to pursue an artistic career studying music and working in cinema, before finding his path as a performer in the European avant-garde theater scene. In 2014 I joined Cirque du Soleil for the creation of KURIOS which became one of the company's most acclaimed shows, performing in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, and Rome, among other cities. GENERACIONES'07 awarded his latest project a grant, and it was presented at the ARCO Art Fair in Madrid.