Andrés Nagel (San Sebastián, 1947) studied architecture at the University of Navarra, and has since travelled widely and lived in various countries. His artistic production includes painting, sculpture and architecture. In the 1970s, in line with other Basque artists, he embraced figuration as an alternative to Informalism, abstraction and Conceptual art. Critics used the phrase 'postmodern figuration' to describe his work of human figures, animals and mechanical constructions, executed with irreverence and sarcasm. Nagel appropriates Pop art's use colour and popular subjects, the shocking perspectives and humour of Surrealism and the found materials of Arte Povera, to which he adds all sorts of materials, always in plain and contrasted colours, to create scenes of dislocated, Dionysian, intense and unhinged characters that often recall the bacchantes of the ancient world. Giving great importance to the line and always in a slightly baroque style, they invite a reading from a social but also subjective perspective.

Following his first solo exhibition in Pamplona (1972), Nagel exhibited at Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Madrid (1983), Museo Jovellanos, Gijón (1983), Mile 4 Chicago International (1985), Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (1988), Museo de Bellas Artes, Vitoria-Gasteiz (1989), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (1991), and Museo de San Telmo, San Sebastián (1996). He has had retrospective exhibitions at Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (1995), and Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián (1999). He has exhibited regularly in galleries in different Spanish cities, and been included in group exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia. He has public works in Barcelona, Amorebieta (Basque Country), and Mallorca. His wok is part of the collections of British Museum, London; Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Fundació "la Caixa"; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; Meadows Museum, Dallas; and MACBA, Barcelona, among others.