Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento. (Homage. Marinetti Series IV. Wind Reading.)

Name: MARTÍN CHIRINO (B. 1925)
Brand: Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento. (Homage. Marinetti Series IV. Wind Reading.)
Price: 60000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 75,000

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Closed: 11 Apr 2019

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MARTÍN CHIRINO (B. 1925)

Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento. (Homage. Marinetti Series IV. Wind Reading.)

Price Realised GBP 75,000

Closed: 11 Apr 2019

Price Realised GBP 75,000

Closed: 11 Apr 2019

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MARTÍN CHIRINO (B. 1925)
Homenaje. Serie Marinetti IV. Lectura del Viento. (Homage. Marinetti Series IV. Wind Reading.)

forged iron on wooden plinth on metal base
sculpture: 17½ x 54¾ x 14¾in. (44.5 x 139 x 37.5cm.)
overall: 59¼ x 54¾ x 14¾in. (150.5 x 139 x 37.5cm.)

Executed in 1998

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Martín Chirino, exh. cat., Santander, Fundación Marcelino Botín, 1999 (illustrated in colour, p. 82).
M. I. Martín de Argila, Martín Chirino, Esculturas, Catalogo razonado, Madrid 2006, no. 326 (illustrated in colour, p. 408).

Madrid, Galería Marlborough, Martín Chirino, Obra reciente, 1998, no. 5 (illustrated, p. 17).

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Lot Essay

Sculpted in 1998 and held in the same collection ever since, Martín Chirino’s () 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’, , December 6, 2017). Indeed, 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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