CANARIAS 19·20

Viewing room

Canarian art of the 19th and 20th centuries

CANARIAS 19-20 is an experience in the spaces of memory, the memory that the art made in the Canary Islands during a century and a half has materialized in the works of twenty-two artists who are part of the insular tradition. They are not, therefore, unknown artists in our cultural sphere (although time has made some of them more invisible than others) since, with the exception of Alejandro Ossuna y Saviñon, all the artists represented in this exhibition already have a monograph on their life and work in the Biblioteca de Artistas Canarios (BAC), which has been published by the Canary Islands Government since 1991.

César Manrique

Sin título, 1986

If, as we have warned, CANARIAS 19-20 is an invitation to memory, the transit through the thirty or so works that constitute it -some of them shown for the first time in years- should not be passive, but rather an exercise of “reconstruction” where the possible or impossible, essential or anecdotal, visible or invisible links that we illuminate along the way are the substance and nourishment of our experience.

José Luis Fajardo

Sin título, 1969

María Belén Morales

Sin título, 1999

Maribel Nazco

Sin título, 1978

Pedro González

Sin título, 1985

Pedro González

Cosmoarte , 1984

Pedro González

Sin título , 1985

Pedro González

Cosmoarte, 1967

Pedro González

Cosmoarte, 1969

Pedro González

Sin título, 1968

Pedro González

Cosmoarte, 1972

Gonzalo González

Sin título, 1992

Gonzalo González

Sin título, 1980

Gonzalo González

El prado, 1980

César Manrique

Barrancos, 1991

César Manrique

Sin título, 1989

Plácido Fleitas

Sin título, 1950

Plácido Fleitas

Sin título

Plácido Fleitas

Sin título, 1950

Cristino de Vera

Banco, taza, cesto y vela, 1991

Juan Ismael

Sin título, 1973

Juan Ismael

Sin título, 1970

Juan Ismael

Sin título, 1968

Juan Ismael

Sin título, 1968

Manuel Martín González

Piedras de Las Cañadas

Manuel Martín González

Azulejos del Teide

José Aguiar

Bañista, 1952

Enrique Sánchez

Marina

Guillermo Sureda

Teide

Guillermo Sureda

Puerto de Santa Cruz

Francisco Bonnín Guerín

Barranco

Miró Mainou

Sin título

Pedro de Guezala

Maga, 1948

Pedro de Guezala

Maga

Nicolás Massieu

Almendro, 1948

Nicolás Alfaro

Sin título, C.a. 1900

Juan Botas Ghirlanda

Lagunas Pontinas. Jardín de la Ninfa, 1905

Juan Botas Ghirlanda

Paisaje de Capri, 1905