LADY TENERIFE

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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Painted iron sculpture by Martin Chirino (1972). 1 International Exhibition of Street Sculptures. Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1973. Lady Tenerife and Chirino's work in the Plaza de Europa represent different readings, since the sculptor's informal tendency in the first is barely perceived in the second where the concept of space occupation and Formal presence of the object is subject to the process of knowledge and accumulation of time.

1 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURES IN THE STREET. Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1973. Carnero.A, Duque.D, Schwartz.C, Cabildo de Tenerife, 1996.

Editorial and research team : Architecture Unit of the CICOP Foundation.

Miguel ngel Fern ndez Matr n.

Jos Luis D will read Mart nez.

Sendy Hern ndez lvarez.

Photograph: Jos M. Bossini Ruiz.

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1925. He entered the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1948, while continuing his research rich sculptures in iron forging workshops. In the 50s he traveled to Europe, completing his studies in London. He began to experiment in abstraction and made the series ' Black Queens ', with influences from African art and surrealism. He joined the ' El Paso ' group in Madrid, a group of avant-garde and renewal of the aesthetic thought and committed critical action of Spanish art. Since 1959 he has introduced the spiral as an emblematic motif of his pieces. He travels to the United States by installing a workshop alternating his residence between this country and Spain. It is a stage of monumental works that derive towards the ' Afro-Can ' series, research on African art and Canarian artistic primitive forms. By 1980 he enters constructivism with his work ' Penetecran '.

He has been President of the Madrid Fine Arts Circle during the most germinative day of this entity (1983-1990). Director of the Athletic Center of Modern Art of Las Palmas (CAAM), since its founding in 1989. He has been awarded the Budapest International Sculpture Prize in 1978, National Plastic Arts Award in 1980 and Canary Islands Arts Prize Static in 1986. Ora Medal for Fine Arts, CEOE National Sculpture Award, Gold Medal of Honor of the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts. He has made individual exhibitions in Madrid and New York among other places ...