Opening of the exhibition "Homage to Marinetti"

This exhibition at the Martín Chirino Foundation for Art and Thought brings together a significant part of the cycle known as "Homage to Marinetti" by Martín Chirino, a theme the sculptor began exploring in the early 1990s and continued almost until the end of his life.

As Pedro A. Cruz points out, in this series by Chirino, "we find one of the many beautiful paradoxes that articulate his work: the slow creation of speed. The Canary Islands artist returns to Marinetti to accelerate the rhythm of his iron sculptures." After visiting this exhibition, one will fully understand how, once Chirino captured the wind in his spirals, he became solely and exclusively interested in the concept of speed proposed by Futurism through its founder. Cruz again notes, regarding this series, that "the pieces that comprise it offer an interpretation of Marinetti's imagery, not of movement as such."

Chirino never stopped taking into consideration the historical avant-garde, and it was predictable that he would look towards Futurism, paying homage to Marinetti in a beautiful series, interested as he had been in the spiral, the wind and the flight of birds, the whirlpools of water and the twists of the Sabine women, reconsidering the apologia for speed by means of a spiral that opens in a delicate stroke, assuming the opening that Boccioni proposed of the sculptural figure to the environment.