David Medalla has managed to remain unattached, or elegant way to ironic, artistic movements, and both deeply stuck in them; an ambivalence with which has maintained its strong individuality and mental mobility. His own work is in part a search for how their inventions can resist institutionalization to stay as active as able to inspire others.

-DM

Somehow, that indispensable word luftmensch has made a bad name. But still it seems useful. According to the Oxford dictionary, a luftmensch is "impractical visionary." But ever there was a practical visionary? When I think of David Medalla, I think of him fondly as one of the few authentic luftmensch I've known ... a man of incomparable imagination.

Ashton -Dore

This book by renowned art critic Guy Brett is the first attempt to group a set of fascinating and ephemeral artistic work that eludes simple definitions. Born in Manila, Philippines, in 1942 and settled mainly in London since 1960, David Medalla has distinguished itself internationally as one of the leading innovators in the forefront. In the last sixty years his work has taken a multitude of searches and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to express a singular vision of the world but deeply coherent. Proud of its efforts to remain independent of commercial, bureaucratic and intolerant pressures of the art world, was nevertheless an international creative force, traveling, encouraging artists, creating groups and exhibition spaces, and creating their own art aspiring to emergence of a new type of transnational and polymorphous culture.