Sculpted in 1998 and held in the same collection ever since, Martín Chirino’s Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento (Homage. Marinetti Series IV. Wind Reading) is a lithe articulation of space and form. Growing out of a wooden plinth is an iron fold graced by an elegant, swooping curve: ‘A spiral opens with a fascinating elegance, a delicate stroke, almost like a handwritten signature’ (‘Obra en hierro’, Fundacíon de arte y pensamiento Martín Chirino, http://www.fundacionmartinchirino.org/la-coleccion/obra-en-hierro/). The sculpture is part of a series of tributes to Filippo Marinetti, the founder of the Italian art movement Futurism, which endeavoured to image speed and technological advancement; for Chirino, the transformation of space has always been an essential consideration of his prolific practice. As the artist himself said, ‘It’s easy to draw or paint shadows, but the challenge for a sculptor is to materialize them, to give them body weight’ (M. Chirino quoted in E. Cué, ‘Interview with Martín Chirino’, Huffington Post, December 6, 2017). Indeed, Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento encapsulates a rushing wind, inspired perhaps by the sea breezes of a childhood spent on the beach of Las Canteras in Gran Canaria. In the sculpture, movement seems eternally possible as the ironcurve extends towards the infinite.
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