Joaquim Chancho
dal 7/3/2006 al 14/4/2006
Segnalato da
7/3/2006
Joaquim Chancho
Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York
Pintura pintada. His work is characterized by abstract geometrical compositions usually based on the contrast of two dominant colors. The exhibition includes twelve new large oil paintings on canvas, and a selection of recent drawings.
Pintura pintada
I can remember very intense moments standing before certain paintings, for
example, the weightlessness of Caravaggio, the dusty spatiality of Morandi,
the light of Vermeer. I often forget the images; but rather accumulate the
knowledge and wisdom and the energies which they give off [...]. This
omission of representation is what I would like to be present in my work. To
omit in order to indicate, to go beyond the image, to stake a claim for
another vision of the image.The great difficulty is using images in order
not to talk about images, using forms in order not to talk about forms.
- Joaquim Chancho
Haim Chanin Fine Arts proudly presents its second solo exhibition of
renowned Spanish painter Joaquim Chancho, Pintura Pintada (Painted
Painting), on view from March 8 through April 15, 2006. The exhibition includes twelve new large oil
paintings on canvas, and a selection of recent drawings.
The work of Joaquim Chancho is characterized by abstract geometrical
compositions usually based on the contrast of two dominant colors: the
background - a thick accumulation of layers of different hues, and a grid
structuring the space of the canvas, “engraved" by the painter on the
surface.
The rigour and apparent simplicity of the artist’s formal language and
composition, the striking chromatic tension, the silent minimalist surface
of those large oil on canvas contrast with the musicality of the variations
on a same pattern, the sensitivity and expressiveness of the gesture, and
the depth and materiality of the overlapping colors. Chancho’s works tell
the story of their own making; repetitive, they are soothing, imbued with a
meditative and serene quality; dense and layered, they are a battlefield
where the painter struggles with his medium, where he covers or scrapes the
layers with other layers, the colors with other colors, to search the
internal structure of the world that sourrounds us.
Since the 1970s, Chancho has enjoyed a long and distinguished career. He has
exhibited internationally in galleries and museums for more than thirty
years, with exhibitions at La Fundacio'n Joan Miro', el Centre d’Art Santa
Mo'nica, el Museo de Arte Contempora'neo de Ibiza, el Museo de Arte de
Tarragona, el Museo Rufino Tamayo, Me'xico, and last year, a major
retrospective at the Tecla Sala in Barcelona. His work can be found in the
permanent collections of many important institutions, such as the Fundacio'n
La Caixa, the Museo de Arte Contempora'neo of Barcelona and the Generalitat
de Catalunya among others.
Located at 210 Eleventh Avenue, 2nd floor, between 24th and 25th Streets,
Haim Chanin Fine Arts is committed to bringing established and renowned
artists from Europe and Latin America to New York. Following Pintura
Pintada, the gallery will present Drawing on the Wrong Side of the Brain, an
exhibition curated by art critic and writer Lyle Rexer (April - May 2006),
and the second exhibition of acclaimed German painter Heribert C. Ottersbach
(May -July 2006).
For more information or images related to this exhibition please contact
Mathilde Simian, at 646 2307200 or msimian@haimchanin.com.
An opening
reception with the presence of the artist will take place at the gallery on
Wednesday, March 8, from 6 to 8 PM.
Haim Chanin Fine Arts
210 11th Avenue, Suite 201 New York, NY 10001