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Gimme Shelter is the title of a documentary about the 1969 Rolling Stones tour, which includes the death at Altamont of a young black man at the hands of a group of Hell's Angels, a bunch of bikers recruited to act as security guards, as the group played Under My Thumb. Conceived as a complex sculptural space, it houses photography, video, design and architecture. Built in wood to resemble a room, Gimme Shelter is basically a deconstruction. The installation demands a change of attitude in the spectator, it requires his participation and encourages him to walk around a space full of ambiguities in which he is enveloped thanks to the repetitions of images and music. To get inside, you have to push through black curtains with the transversal bars of the Basque flag. There, two screens provide a series of narrations using dialogues and soundtracks of Pasolini's film Salo, Godard's Weekend and Fassbinder's The Third Generation, mixed up with art icons and personalities who ironically question certain signs of identity. Badiola likes to quote Jean-Luc Godard: "I'm not trying to communicate something. I'm trying to communicate with somebody". [Silvia García Lusa]

Selected bibliography

• Txomin Badiola, 96-06 : la forme qui pense = The thinking form [Cat. exp.]. Saint-Etienne Métropole ; Clermont-Ferrand, Musée d'Art Moderne ; Un, Deux... Quatre Editions, 2007. pp. 104-107.
• Adquisiciones 02/07 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2007. pp. 124-125, n° cat. 53.
• Guía Artistas Vascos. Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2008. pp. 191-192.
• Gida Euskal Artistak. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Eder Museoa, 2008. pp. 191-192.
• Guide Basque Artists. Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 2012. pp. 191-192, n° cat. 109b.
• Txomin Badiola : otro Family Plot [Cat. exp.]. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016. pp. 119-128, 274, n° cat. 37.
• Txomin Badiola : another Family Plot [Cat. exp.]. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016. pp. 119-128, 274, n° cat. 37.
• Viar, Javier. Historia del arte vasco : de la Guerra Civil a nuestros días, 1936-2016. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2017. pp. 810-811, il.
• Después del 68 : arte y prácticas artísticas en el País Vasco, 1968-2018 [Cat. exp.]. Bilbao, Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2018. p. 433, il.