David Bestué was born in Barcelona in 1980. Interested particularly in the relationship between art and architecture, between 2003 and 2009 he developed a work devoted to the architect Enric Miralles, which he followed by another project on twentieth-century Spanish architecture, Formalismo puro [Pure Formalism], which included a publication, performances, sculptures and video. Formalismo puro was shown at the Botín Foundation in Santander in 2011.

More recently, Bestué conducted research into the engineer Félix Candela at the de-sitio platform, Mexico City, work that is soon to be published. Another focus of interest is seeking the limits of the literary format. To this end, he has worked with, and on, such poets as Carlos Pardo, Mario Montalbetti and Federico García Lorca. In his exhibition Piedras y poetas (“Stones and Poets”, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, 2013), Bestué showed a number of sculptures in which this tension was extended into the terrain of form and material, featuring a format that the artist continues to investigate.

Over the 2002-2012 period, Bestué also developed a line of work in cooperation with the artist Marc Vives, with whom he exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale, at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), the Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and MACBA (Barcelona), amongst others.

Biography written in 2013