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 capabilities of hands. Stripping them of their symbolism or the functions for which they are typically used, the artist explored them as one might examine a foreign body, seeking their limits and taking them in different directions. To do so, he employed opposing sculptural concepts such as straight-curved and simple-complex; he sought the interconnection between the fingers and the balance between distances, and he attempted to generate geometric shapes and textures. Occasionally, Baixas found forms that were like doors opening to endless 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.