La bandera en la cima is the first full presentation of the project that Rafel G. Bianchi began in 2007: painting in a detailed manner the fourteen highest mountains in the world, the fourteen eight-thousanders. A feat that in the world of mountaineering is brimming with heroism and which in is reiteration as an artistic project betrays the role of the artist involved in a absurd trask. In addition to the fourteen final paintings, La bandera en la cima, drawing a comparison between the documentation of mountaineering and the documental strategies of conceptual art, also collects the traces of its through drawings, photographs. films or posters, many of which have been developed in collaboration with other artists.

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