Inspirations

This collaboration between the Martín Chirino Foundation and El Museo Canario (The Canary Museum) facilitates the temporary installation of two works by Martín Chirino and one by Manolo Millares at El Museo Canario, as well as the simultaneous exhibition of 10 pintaderas (traditional Canarian pottery slabs) at the Castillo de la Luz (Castle of Light). This initiative proposes a visual dialogue between the work of Gran Canarian artists Manuel Millares Sall (1926-1972) and Martín Chirino López (1925-2019) and the archaeological collections displayed in the permanent galleries of the century-old institution, whose rooms the aforementioned artists frequented during their youth.

Two works from Martín Chirino's series "El Viento" (The Wind), "El Viento (121)" and "El Viento (122)," will be installed at El Museo Canario from May 15th for a period of three months; and ten pintaderas from the scientific society's collection will be exhibited at the Castillo de la Luz.

According to Jesús M. Castaño, director of the Martín Chirino Foundation, “exhibiting his work at this institution is to revisit the artists who influenced the reflection on these roots. 'To return to the fabric of Canarian art, in search of its roots,' as Juan Manuel Bonet states. We do so with this exhibition, featuring works that exemplify how these two universal artists shared the same concerns, the same island identity. Millares explained the Canary Islands through his land (he was passionate about archaeology); Chirino, on the other hand, preferred to speak of the wind that blows in from the ocean. This is the feeling one gets when seeing Manolo's burlap tapestries alongside Martín's metallic spirals in this exhibition.”