7 – 10 APRIL
7 – 10 APRIL
At Galeria Artizar, we have been working with contemporary Spanish art for over thirty years and over the past ten years we have also specialized in contemporary Cuban art. Specifically, we are the European representative of some of Cuba’s most important artists.
In this exhibition project, we are showcasing some of the lines pursued by our gallery. From internationally renowned Spanish artists such as Amparo Sard (Mallorca, 1973), whose work can be found in collections such as the MoMA or the Guggenheim in New York, to established artists in Spain with a strong international profile such as the sculptor Carlos Nicanor (Canary Islands, 1974), and the artistic group Martin & Sicilia (Canary Islands 1974 and 1971).
The quartet of islanders is completed by Cuban artist Raul Cordero (Havana, 1971), one of the leaders of the new Cuban painting, who is currently exhibiting an interactive installation in Time Square (NY).
All these artists and our gallery share the same communality: we are all islanders – Mallorca, the Canary Islands, and Cuba. We all work from a position of islandness and are in perfect synch with it, anchoring the way we reach out to the rest of the world.
Raúl Cordero (born 1971) is a Cuban-born conceptual painter. First known as part of the generation of the 90’s in Cuba, when he began to exhibit his work mainly in Europe and the United States of America. Cordero represents with his work the “other Cuban art”. Far from the standards of the art of the Cuban Revolution, and without falling into the clichés of other artists from inside and outside the island, Cordero shows pretexts capriciously obtained from diverse referential origins (press, magazines, books, television, photography and video) and shows us his work as the result of a recycling, a revival, creating a new reality that refers more to art than to any other apparent content.
His artistic training began in Havana (San Alejandro Academy and Instituto Superior de Diseño) and his influences mix an interest in North American conceptual artists such as John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman or Chris Burden – who later informed his conceptual training – together with elements of the Flemish pictorial tradition of the 12th century, acquired during his postgraduate training in Holland (Graphic Media Development Centre and Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten). Cordero has been a visiting professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (Cuba), at the San Francisco Art Institute (California) and at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA).
His work is in the collection of several museums such as the Musée National D’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), California, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK). Ghent, Belgium, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Spain, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA.
Amparo Sard holds a Degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona, where she currently teaches, and she also holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from the New School University of New York. She has been honoured with many awards, among them the International Deutsche Bank Award, the Medaglia d’oro dell Governo della Republica d’Italia for career achievement and was appointed as one of the best artists around the world, being included in the LXRY List for 2018. The artist works and lives between Barcelona and Mallorca.
She has held exhibitions both individually and collectively at galleries, international fairs and museums such as MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma), TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes), Es Baluard Museu d’art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Irish Museum of Modern Art, New York’s WhiteBox Art Center, Museo ABC del Dibujo y la Ilustración de Madrid, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles), MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of South Korea), Royal Ontario Museum, etc. Her work is part of renowned private and public collections, which include MoMA (NYC’s Museum of Modern Art), New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, West Collection (Chelsea Contemporary Art Museum), Teylers Museum in Haarlem-Netherlands, Artium (Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo de Vitoria), Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Deutsche Bank New York Collection, Fundación Loewe de Madrid, La Caixa Col•lecció Testimoni de Barcelona, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Es Baluard Museu d’art Modern i Contemporani de Palma.
He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna and began exhibiting his work in 2002. His works have been selected in biennial exhibitions both in Las Palmas and Tenerife, deserving first prizes such as the Excellens of sculpture of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel (2011) or the First Prize Manolo Millares CajaCanarias (2009). In 2006 he held his first solo exhibition, which he titled Buscador de nortes, in which under the motto “where everything is done and everything to be done” he would present a collection of veiled tributes to some of the sculptors he admires, Brancusi and Giacometti among others.
Among his exhibitions are Antinatura/Sinbiología (Galería Artizar 2010-2012), and Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor (TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2015), as well as his participation in the XII Havana Biennial within the project Detrás del Muro, with the installation Lemon Way, in which he built a path of yellow wooden tiles that crossed the Malecón to die in the Caribbean, heading to La Florida.
Nicanor is a Brossanian sculptor. It is enough to see some of his latest works to understand that his creativity aspires to give shape to a work that will be a caustic alteration of the object and its meaning, always proposing a new and unusual one, and that such work postulates in many cases a Dadaist position that brings him closer to Arp and Duchamp. Carlos Nicanor’s sculptural intensity is poetic in nature. Perhaps that is why his work seems so comfortable and rigorously expressive when he makes his own the legacy of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism, and its ability to make self-sufficient objects, closed entities with which a cultural key is essential to communicate.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1974 & 1971. They have been working together as a team since their first solo exhibition in 1995 at the Ateneo de La Laguna. Since then they have exhibited in national and international galleries such as, Nina Menocal. Mexico DF My Name’s Lolita Art, Valencia, Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, L’Oeil, Paris, Val i 30. Valencia, Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas. Ferrán Cano, Barcelona and Mallorca, Carmen de la Guerra. Madrid. Espacio Líquido, Gijón, m:acontemporary. Berlin, Nara Roesler, Sao Paolo, Torbandena. Trieste, Ulf Saupe, Berlin. Artizar, La Laguna, Gallery Momo. Johannesburg, Gallery N2. Barcelona, Kir Royal. Valencia, Charles Cowles New York, La Casa Cuadrada, Bogota, Apama Mackey, Houston and Paola Verrengia in Italy.
They have also exhibited in museums and exhibition halls such as, TEA, Tenerife, CAAM, Las Palmas. CAAM, Las Palmas, Casa de America Madrid, Espai Cuattre Mallorca. Artium Vitoria, Da2 Salamanca, Kunstraum De Castro Frankfurt, Espacio C Camargo, Henie Onstad Kunsenter Oslo, Kunsthalle Darmstadt and recently at the Institute of the Canary Islands Cabrera Pinto: As well as in the biennials of Havana Cuba. Dakart Senegal, Fotonoviembre Tenerife, Bamako Mali, NDSM Amsterdam and On Porto Bay Madeira. They have attended numerous international fairs such as Art Cologne, ARCO, Armory Show, Art Platform, L.A, Balelatina, Art Forum Berlin. MACO, SPart, Art Lima, Pulse Miami, Pulse New York, ArteBa, Art Miami, Art Chicago, Joburg, Art Bologne, Docks lyon. Art Lima, Fia Caracas. Vienna Art Fair and Marbella Art Fair
Among the awards, the following stand out: 1st Prize, Villa de Santayí, Mencion de Honor ABC de fotografía, Artistas emergentes de ARCO07, Ron Brugal.
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