David medalla

In Cv/VAR 104 the celebrated artist David Medalla (b.The Philippines 1942) gives an extensive interview, in which he discusses his advent to the literary and art scenes of Paris and London at a significant point of change in 1960. He recalls his introduction in Paris by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duncan and Gaston Bachelard, who admired his original kinetic sculpture, The Bubble Machine. Arriving in London in 1963 he joined Paul Keeler to operate Signals Gallery, exhibiting European and South American artists such as Jesús Rafael Soto and Vassilakis Takis, in groundbreaking manifestations. Medalla went on to form the Exploding Galaxy, a seedbed of performance art based in a house at North London's Balls Pond Road. A protean spirit of wide influence over five decades as a poet and visionary creator, Medalla has continued his extraordinary path. Following a recent show in Berlin Medalla exhibited in Migrations a six month long survey from January to August 2012 at Tate Britain.