Presentation of the second volume of the Catalog Raisonné by Martín Chirino

The book will be presented by its author, María Luisa Martín de Argila, and the co-editors Ladislao Azcona, president of the Azcona Foundation, and Marta Chirino, president of the Martín Chirino Art and Thought Foundation, who has supervised and approved the entire cataloging process. of his father's work. This catalog raisonné, bilingual edition in Spanish and English, includes all the works by Martín Chirino (March 1, 1925, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - March 11, 2019, Madrid), and expands and completes the cataloging of the works sculptures of the first volume, published in 2005, with a set of pieces that should have appeared in the previous list and whose existence was unknown at the time. Likewise, the description of all the sculptural works is included, both unique pieces and editions, as well as medals created by the artist from 2005 to March 2019, the date of his death. In sum, more than 200. This is the fifth editorial collaboration between the Museo Reina Sofía and the Azcona Foundation, after the catalogs raisonnés of Manolo Millares, pinturas (year 2004), Martín Chirino, esculturas Vol. I (2006), Pablo Palazuelo. paintings and sculptures [architecture and utopias] (2015) and Maruja Mallo, paintings (2021). The Azcona Foundation is a non-profit entity that promotes scientific research related to the world of art. Since the year 2000 he has edited a dozen reasoned works by the main Spanish artists of the 20th century. He is currently directing the reasoning by Lucio Muñoz, Julio González Vol. VI, Carmen Calvo, and the one on graphic works and illustrated books by Óscar Domínguez. The Martín Chirino Art and Thought Foundation was created in 2015 by the Canarian sculptor, with the aim of becoming a benchmark space for the arts and the development of thought. Following its motto "from the Canary Islands to the world", the Foundation works with the aim of promoting dialogue between the various artistic and literary manifestations, often displaced from the current imaginary by the speed of knowledge and excessive specialization. The collaboration between the two foundations for the edition of this second volume of the catalog of works by Martín Chirino aims to give continuity to the work and support of the artist himself in the previous volume, as well as a closure to the scientific work that the cataloging of the complete work supposes. of a sculptor, as prolific as he was long-lived, who never stopped working.