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As is true of many others long before me, I first encountered David Medalla (1942–2020) through the pages of the
Signals newsbulletin (1964–66), of which he was editor. The context was a graduate seminar on the work of Lygia Clark, and one of Medalla’s folded duo-chrome broadsheets taught us more than any available book. This particular issue, devoted to Clark, combined images representing 15 years of her work with the first English translations of both her statements and writings by Mário Pedrosa, a poem by Walmir Ayala, and an excerpt from Gaston Bachelard’s ‘L’Intuition de l’instant’. On the back page is Medalla’s ‘Found-Poem for Takis’, one of several works of visual poetry within
endIndex: David Medalla after a performance at the 2017 Venice Art Biennale, where his work A Stitch in Time was also part of the main exhibition. Photo by DON JAUCIAN
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) David Cortez Medalla (23 March 1938 – 28 December 2020) was a pioneer. For art historian and curator Patrick D. Flores, he was an “indispensable figure in the prehistory of the contemporary, one who, with a ludic sensibility and broad sympathies, mediated the local and the modern in all their complications.” Medalla was an activist, a poet, and a prominent figure in modern and contemporary art in the Philippines and beyond who worked on kinetic, land, and participatory art.