Guided tour by Jesús Castaño to "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 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. Again, Cruz notes regarding this series that "the pieces that comprise it offer an interpretation of Marinetti's imagery, not of movement as such."

Chirino never ceased to consider the historical avant-garde, and it was predictable that he would look to Futurism, paying homage to Marinetti in a beautiful series. He was interested, as he had been, in the spiral, the wind and the flight of birds, the swirling waters and the twists of the juniper trees, reconsidering the glorification of speed through a spiral that unfolds in a delicate stroke, embracing Boccioni's proposal of the sculptural figure's integration with its surroundings.

Guided tours are free but registration is required.