150. JOSEMARÍA
SICILIA
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“Flor Roja”
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1987
Acrylic on canvas
300 x 300 cm
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“Flor ocre”
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1987
Acrylic on canvas
300 x 300 cm
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"Sanlúcar de Barrameda"
1993
Mixed media: photography on silk paper on plywood.
Each: 60 x 40,5 x 6,5 cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1954 in Madrid, Spain.
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Majorca and New York.
Studies:
In 1975 he joined the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in
Madrid
Themes and
style:
Sillman's work is both abstract and
representational, incorporating elements such as figuration, collage, and
diagrammatic shapes.In a 2006 Artforum article, Jan Avgikos wrote that
Sillman’s paintings “mine the edges of abstraction, meshing patches of color
with bursts of chaotic line and web-like compositional scaffolding.” Her
layered works often include humor, visual jokes,cartoons, psychological
elements, and feminist critique.
Techniques:
Is
developed in paintings
Exhibitions
In 1980 he moved to Paris, where he first exhibited, and in
1985 he relocated to New York, where he became a close friend of the composer
John Cage. He has displayed at the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Bordeaux, 2001),
Musee des Beaux-Arts (Caen, 2000), Venice Biennale (1986), Centro Atlantico de
Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria and Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo. He also
held multiple exhibitions in Japan, first in 1988, based in galleries in
Nagasaki, Kyoto, Tokyo and most recently in Fukushima, in the wake of the 2011
tsunami and earthquake in the area.In 1989 he received the Premio Nacional de
Artes Plásticas of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Chantal Carrousel
In
his own words:
For
more Information: