Exhibitions
The Niemeyer Center commemorates the centenary of Martín Chirino
Dear Martin [Martín Chirino in the United States] and his link with the North American country.
Exhibition tour at the Niemeyer Center in Avilés with 27 sculptures and thirty drawings by Martín Chirino, accompanied in great detail by film pieces, correspondence, photographs, publications and music to create a spectacular context of the artist's relationship with the United States throughout his career. An exhibition that also commemorates the centenary of the birth of the Canarian sculptor that can be visited until September 21.
Each of the works on display is linked to this North American context, revealing a lesser-known dimension of Chirino, works from multiple public and private centers such as MNCARS, IVAM or the artist's own legacy. This relationship between artist, art world and the United States has never been deepened and the Niemeyer Center has explained in detail this binomial of work and space since 1960.
Fotografia Manuel Carranza / Centro Niemeyer
Curated by Alfonso de la Torre, it details that he became the most represented artist of the Spanish abstract generation in New York, the great art capital that takes all the momentum from cities like Paris or Berlin. The city of skyscrapers became the space for multiple exhibitions by Chirino, whether individual or collective.
That 1960 marks the beginning of this whole exhibition adventure with New Spanish Painting and Sculpture curated by Frank O'Hara at MoMA. A journey with the work of Martín Chirino with different subsequent trips to the United States that meant fulfilling a traveling tradition that he understood as a vital mandate, because he was already sailing the sea as a child when, accompanying his father, he encountered the neighboring African continent. It was the search for his particular utopialand.
Fotografia Manuel Carranza / Centro Niemeyer
The artist participated in a dozen solo exhibitions in New York, many of them at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, which represented him between 1960 and 1995. In 1989, the Meadows Museum in Dallas organized a major retrospective of his works in North American collections. The exhibition also seeks this cultural influence of the United States on Chirino's work with an important relationship with O'Hara or Hulton Kramer, in addition to jazz figures such as Bobby Short.
The Niemeyer Center offers a unique tour of the work of the Canarian sculptor Martín Chirino through eight Art Routes of the exhibition Dear Martin! [Martín Chirino in the United States]. These guided tours will take place on Sundays, June 8 and 22, July 6 and 20, August 3 and 17, and September 7 and 21, offering the public the opportunity to learn up close about the history and meaning of the pieces on display.
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