Artist of the week from Spain - in pictures

Bigger Than a Cult, Smaller Than a Mass (2006) is a key work by Asier Mendizabal, exploring the relationship between form and ideology Photograph: Juanchi Pegoraro/courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

In Mendizabal's Not All That Moves (Is Red) from 2007, he tests political potency by hanging huge anarchist flags Photograph: courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Mendizabal’s cog-like sculpture, La Ruota Dentata, 2009, harks back to the early days of modernism and futurism. It resurrects the forgotten logo of a futurist newspaper and leftwing manifesto created by the artist Vinicio Paladini Photograph: courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Mendizabal’s current exhibition at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid continues his exploration of the way form can harness ideology in sculpture and photography Photograph: courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Bad boy of Spanish art Alejandro Vidal uses controversial images to show how controlled transgression often is. In Invocation (2007) the provocatively angled police baton mocks impotent stereotypes Photograph: Galeria Joan Prats

El tiempo del odio (The time of hate, 2007) features a provocative Vidal rock chick Photograph: Galeria Joan Prats

Like much of Vidal's work, The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (2007) taps into urban tribes and youth subcultures, with a grimy feel and tattooed flesh Photograph: Galeria Joan Prats

Vidal's Falling From Trees (2009) is part of his more recent work that explores acts of political dissidence Photograph: Galeria Joan Prats

Ajehandro Vidal's A Step Too Far (2009) Photograph: Galeria Joan Prats

Adrià Julià’s films and photographs explore the traces of cultural memory and concepts of home and identity. Untitled (Truc Trang Walls, 2006) Photograph: GALERÍA SOLEDAD LORENZO

In the series La Villa Basque, Julià's photography lends big movie glamour to a small local Californian theme restaurant. A waiter brings hip-hop style to traditional dance as part of this moving meditation on the ties of culture. Dancer (La Villa Basque, Vernon, California, 2005) Photograph: GALERÍA SOLEDAD LORENZO

Truc Trang Walls (2006) is part of an ongoing series of films by Julià, exploring the strange history of Inchon, a forgotten propaganda film from 1982 about the Korean War, financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon Photograph: GALERÍA SOLEDAD LORENZO