Abstract Art Museum Basin harbored, after Palma, sample Palazuelo.
Palma, June 22 .- The Fundacion Juan March exposed today in the museum of Palma a selection of work done between 1948 and 1968 in Paris by the Madrid painter Pablo Palazuelo, who mature in the French capital's elegant style of geometric abstraction that ranked among the greats of twentieth-century Spanish art.
"Palazuelo. Paris, 13 Rue Saint-Jacques (1948-1968)" a journey begins, tera gold, in Palma continue at the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art and the Museum Oteiza in Alzuza, Navarra, institution that co-produced a show in the the foundation has worked which oversees the work of the artist from Madrid.
So I explained to director of exhibitions at the Fundacion Juan March, Manuel Fontan, in the presentation of "Palazuelo. Paris, 13 Rue Saint-Jacques (1948-1968)",, craft of golds gold, an exhibition that brings together more than thirty paintings in different formats, dozens of drawings and sketches, and a sculpture from foundations and private collections.
Fontan has stressed that in this exhibition, which will be seen in Palma until 30 October, deals with a "little threshing field" of an artist who "has been interpreted, documented and expounded on many occasions."
As, sto credits, the great anthologist who organized the Reina Sofia in 1995 and the MACBA and the Guggenheim in 2008, one year after the death of the creator, born in 1916.
"Nobody had dedicated an exhibition to Palazuelo that in 1948 he packed his bags and with a grant from the French Institute, he went to Paris, a city in the early years of the war still retained some of its historic status as" cultural capital the world, "he highlighted.
Fontan has stressed that for the painter and sculpture from Madrid, who studied architecture and fought in the Civil War as a pilot of the army in revolt, the Paris period, especially since 1954 is installed on the floor of the Rue Saint-Jacques, "it means everything. "
"In those years, with the stubborn and almost obsessive work of a lone, discusses with its predecessors, and more radically influential ancestors, which are Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and manages to find the grammar of his later creation, the laws that elements of their language-the line, geometry, color-are organized throughout his later work, has argued Fontan.
In the sample of Palma, represents the work of compilation and review of the Commissioner Alfonso de la Torre, raises the viewer a tour that goes from the stage clearly marked by the influence of Cubism, Kandinsky's geometric passion and color analysis Klee, a meditative abstraction, balanced and "musical" feature of its long period of maturity.
Although he was still little known in Spain when she abandoned her Parisian residence in 1968, Palazuelo built up awards as the Gold Medal of Fine Arts (1982), the National Prize for Plastic Arts (1999) and Velazquez Prize (2004), and when he died nearly 91 years was a creator widely recognized in his country. tar / mmc