Enrique Martinez Celaya
dal 11/7/2013 al 12/10/2013
Segnalato da
11/7/2013
Enrique Martinez Celaya
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
The exhibition weaves together music, sound, images of pine trees, the ocean and a German Shepherd, an elephant made of jewels, to evoke a state of unbearable concreteness where brutality, imagination, memory, and longing become different facets of the same experience.
SITE
Santa
Fe
is
pleased
to
present
a
new
project
by
Enrique
Martínez
Celaya
entitled
The
Pearl.
For
this
exhibition,
Martínez
Celaya
transforms
almost
12,000
square
feet
of
SITE’s
gallery
spaces
into
an
immersive
environment
that
includes
painting,
sculpture,
video,
photography,
waterwork,
sound,
and
writing,
as
well
as
the
artist's
first
musical
arrangement.
This
exhibition
integrates
and
expands
many
of
the
elements
and
ideas
that
the
artist
has
engaged
with
over
the
last
several
years.
In
The
Pearl,
the
artist
takes
the
notion
of
home
as,
both,
a
point
of
departure
and
a
destination
to
craft
a
visual
poem
of
strong
emotional,
philosophical
and
psychological
resonance.
The
structure
of
the
exhibition
invites
a
specific
movement
through
the
galleries
thus
unfolding
a
multi-‐layered
narrative
where
objects,
images,
and
references
are
continuously
reconsidered
in
a
similar
way
that
a
piece
of
music,
a
film,
or
a
novel
are
revealed
in
time.
In
creating
The
Pearl,
many
materials
and
ideas
come
together
as
Martínez
Celaya
transforms
the
entire
building
into
a
work
of
art,
whose
imagery
point
to
the
natural
world
and
the
everyday
seen
through
the
window
of
sorrow.
But
far
from
being
a
work
of
despair,
the
power
of
The
Pearl
resides
precisely
in
its
ability
to
reinvent
loss
as
hope
and
the
mundane
as
the
fantastic.
The
artist
has
said,
"a
pearl
grows
from
an
irritation,
a
desire
to
seal
the
disturbance,
and
this
a
fitting
way
to
look
at
much
of
what
we
do
with
our
life,
or
to
what
our
life
has
done
with
and
to
us."
The
exhibition
weaves
together,
among
other
things,
music,
sound,
images
of
pine
trees,
the
ocean
and
a
German
Shepherd,
an
elephant
made
of
jewels,
a
burnt
dining
room
set,
and
paintings
of
the
past
and
the
present,
to
evoke
a
state
of
unbearable
concreteness
as
well
as
fantasy,
where
brutality,
imagination,
memory,
and
longing
become
different
facets
of
the
same
experience.
The
artist
wrote,
"The
Pearl
is
a
poem
about
time,
the
marker
as
well
as
the
current
of
those
markers.
Like
memory,
it
retrieves
and
hollows
what
was,
and
in
doing
so,
builds
and
undermines
what
is.
Ostensibly
it
is
made
of
objects,
images,
words,
and
sounds,
but
it
is
really
written
on
the
dust
that
was
left
in
rooms
long
ago
left
silent.
Rooms
where
the
boy
I
used
to
be
still
waits
for
my
return,
sitting
on
a
pine-‐wood
chair,
his
eyes
wide
open."
Citing
aspects
of
the
domestic
as
well
as
of
the
epic,
of
the
small
arc
of
individual
histories
as
well
as
the
big
arc
of
time,
the
installation
unearths
memories
seemingly
left
behind,
and
through
this
unearthing
intimates
there
are
secrets
inherent
in
everything,
particularly
in
the
familiar.
In
The
Pearl,
the
concrete
becomes
the
evanescent,
a
great
loss
gives
way
to
the
fantasy
of
the
survivalist,
and
what
has
no
remedy
is
reinvented
as
something
better.
For
the
artist,
unresolved
memories
become
the
inspiration
for
a
spectacular,
enchanted,
as
well
as
dangerous,
world.
This
installation
will
be
accompanied
by
a
documentary
film
on
the
making
of
The
Pearl
by
Peter
Kirby.
The
artist
is
also
collaborating
with
Santa
Fe-‐based
Radius
Books
to
produce
a
book
related
to
the
exhibition.
SITE
hosts
an
artist
talk
and
book
signing
on
Tuesday,
October
1st,
6pm.
Tickets
are
$10/$5
for
students,
seniors,
and
SITE
members
at
Friend/Family
level;
Free
for
members
at
Supporter
Level
and
above.
www.sitesantafe.org
or
call
505.989.1199.
Martínez
Celaya’s
interdisciplinary
practice,
which
encompasses
painting,
sculpture,
photography
and
writing,
is
influenced
by
a
wide
array
of
interests
including
Nordic
poetry,
samurai
mores,
quantum
physics,
the
emotional
mechanisms
of
kitsch,
analytic
and
continental
philosophy,
Latin
American
literature
and
everyday
life.
Martínez
Celaya
begins
with
the
autobiographical
to
explore
the
universal.
Although
his
figures
echo
archetype-‐like
symbols
alluding
to
larger
existential
concerns,
the
artist
considers
the
subject
matter
the
framework
of
his
practice
to
be
constantly
evolving.
Martínez
Celaya
was
trained
as
an
artist
and
physicist.
He
earned
a
BS
in
Applied
&
Engineering
Physics
from
Cornell
University,
a
MS
in
Quantum
Electronics
from
University
of
California
Berkeley
and
a
MFA
in
Painting
from
University
of
California,
Santa
Barbara.
He
has
had
solo
exhibitions
at
the
Hermitage
Museum,
St.
Petersburg,
the
Miami
Art
Museum,
the
Berliner
Philharmonie
and
the
Orange
County
Museum
of
Art,
among
others.
His
works
are
included
in
several
private
and
public
collections
including
those
of
the
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art,
Whitney
Museum
of
American
Art,
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Houston,
Los
Angeles
County
Museum
of
Art,
and
the
Moderna
Museet,
Stockholm.
His
Collected
Writings
and
Interviews
1990-‐2010,
was
published
by
the
University
of
Nebraska
Press.
Under
the
imprint
Whale
and
Star
Press,
Martínez
Celaya
has
published
several
books
on
art,
poetry,
art
practice
and
critical
theory.
Enrique
Martínez
Celaya:
The
Pearl
is
organized
by
Irene
Hofmann,
Phillips
Director
and
Chief
Curator,
SITE
Santa
Fe.
The
exhibition
is
made
possible
through
the
generous
support
of
the
following
lead
sponsors
Karen
&
Steve
Berkowitz;
Cornelia
Bryer
&
Herman
Siegelaar;
Terry
Fassburg;
Ann
&
Ron
Pizzuti;
and
Mary
Sloane
&
Andy
Wallerstein,
with
additional
support
from
sponsors
Christine
&
Bill
Aylward;
Diane
&
Werner
Grob;
Nancy
Ziegler
Nodelman
&
Dwight
Strong;
and
Marleen
De
Bode
Olivié
&
Marc
Olivié.
There
will
be
a
concurrent
exhibition,
Concepts
and
Studies
for
The
Pearl
at
James
Kelly
Contemporary,
from
July
11-‐August
17,
2013,
with
an
opening
reception
on
Thursday,
July
11,
from
5-‐7
pm.
The
gallery
is
located
at
550
South
Guadalupe
Street,
in
the
Railyard
District.
jameskelly.com
Image:
Enrique
Martínez
Celaya,
The
Pearl
in
process,
Miami
studio,
2013,
Courtesy
of
the
artist
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