MARTÍN CHIRINO (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1925-2019). Untitled, 1999. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated in the lower margin.

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  MARTÍN CHIRINO (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1925-2019). Untitled, 1999. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated in the lower margin. Measurements: 123 x 151 cm .; 147 x 173 cm. (Frame). Just as Martín Chirino's sculptures often simulate zigzagging pencil strokes solidifying in the void, in turn, drawings such as the one in question refer us to his sculptural work, as if that sketchy stroke through which a face is formed could be transformed into a sculpture. The dialogue between the pictorial and three-dimensional planes was a constant feature of the artist's work. The sculptor Martín Chirino developed his training at the Escuela de San Fernando in Madrid and at the School of Fine Arts in London. After a first sculptural series "Reinas Negras" (Black Queens), and exhibitions such as the group show at the Museo Canario, Chirino moved to Madrid in 1955, accompanied by his friends Manolo Millares, Elvireta Escobio, Manuel Padrono and Alejandro Reino. He also spent a month in London, where he got to know first-hand the Sumerian and Egyptian sculptures in the British Museum. Only one year later, in 1956, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid acquired two of his works. He then held his first solo exhibition at the Ateneo de Madrid, after which he became a member of the recently founded El Paso group. His recognition grew, and only two years later he was given a special room in the Spanish pavilion at the São Paulo Biennial. In 1960 he took part in a group exhibition at the MOMA in New York, where he presented four pieces, one of which already featured the spiral, the most recurrent theme in his work since those years. The gallerist Grace Borgenicht, impressed by these four pieces, made a trip to Madrid to hire Chirino exclusively for the United States, a contract that remained in force until Borgenicht's death in 1994. Since his participation in the MOMA collective, and after the dissolution of El Paso in 1960, Chirino developed his solo career and showed his work all over the world, an abstract production characterized by the lack of narrative elements and by formal and symbolic richness. He is currently represented in museums all over the world, including the Guggenheim in New York, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Juan March Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, etc.
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