Vientos exhibition opening

The Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino will present from June 16 to September 17, at its headquarters in the Castillo de La Luz in Las Palmas, the Martín Chirino exhibition. Winds. A spiral path towards the origin, curated by Fernando Castro Flórez, professor of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid and art critic. This exhibition, as in the two previous years, will coincide with the edition of the third monograph on the Canarian artist, written by Castro Flórez and framed in the Martín Chirino Encyclopedia, of which Reinas Negras by Alfonso de la Torre and Reinas Negras by Alfonso de la Torre and Afrocán, written by Antonio Manuel González. This exhibition and the edition of the monograph have the collaboration of various public and private entities, including the Governments of Spain and the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the City Council of Las Palmas, and the financial support of the “la Caixa” Foundation. The exhibition project brings together a corpus of works, including sculptures by Martín Chirino (Las Palmas, 1925-Madrid, 2019) and other generational artists such as Jorge Oteiza, El Lissitsky, Julio González and Robert Smithson, as well as works on paper that illustrate a subject that has covered almost six decades of Chirino's plastic career. The text by Fernando Castro Flórez delves into the historical-critical and bibliographical review of the spirals of the wind. The works that will be exhibited, in addition to including some of the collections from the Chirino legacy, come from the Azcona Collection, from the Government of the Canary Islands, as well as from other public institutions and private collections.