MARTÍN CHIRINO. AFROCÁN El Oráculo del Viento

JUNE 18 – SEPTEMBER 18

MARTÍN CHIRINO. AFROCÁN

El Oráculo del Viento

Beginning in 1974, the Afrocanes series of sculptures by Martín Chirino, with their enigmatic fusion of mask and mirror, form the link that the sculptor makes in the midst of all his artistic creations, to open up a space of communication and reflection between his islands and the great African continent.

The overriding oval shape of the sculptures seems to contemplate, impassive, the terrible solitude of contemporary man. The spiral, that ancestral symbol of aboriginal Canary culture and an emblem of Chirino’s work, reveals his voice, like an oracle, inside these African masks, to proclaim a shared legacy.

The Canary artist, forged between two worlds, feels the need to examine his own identity in the radical otherness of cultures lying on the other side of the Atlantic, but yet are no different from that of the islands. In the synthesis conveyed through the generic name of this group of works, Afrocán - a neologism coined by the artist resulting from the fusion of the two place names - there is a twofold dimension, Canary and African, exalted in the imposing presence of the works.

EXHIBITION:

CURATOR:

Antonio Manuel González Rodríguez

ORGANIZERS:

Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino

CASA ÁFRICA

PRODUCTION AND COORDINATION:

Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino

DESIGN:

Ana Fernández Palacios Martínez

Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Alfonso Meléndez

Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino

GRAPHIC PRODUCTION:

FotoArte

STOP DIGITAL

Litografía Prag

Decoratina

CARPENTRY:

Servicio Municipal de Cultura y Presidencia Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

DeQú

TRANSPORTATION:

TEMA S.A.

ESMENSO

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS:

COLECCIÓN CENTRO ATLÁNTICO DE ARTE MODERNO, CABILDO DE GRAN CANARIA, COLECCIÓN DE ARTE CAJACANARIAS, IVAM INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ARTE MODERNO, MUSEO PATIO HERRERIANO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO ESPAÑOL, FUNDACIÓN ALBERTO JIMÉNEZ-ARELLANO ALONSO.

PRIVATE COLLECTORS:

VALYUNQUE, S.L. LEGADO DE MARTÍN CHIRINO, COLECCIÓN AZCONA, Rafael Monagas, Ángel Sánchez and all the private collectors that have contributed to this exhibition.