José María Sicilia
ECO
January 30 – March 5, 2010
At the far end of the source, there is the echo.
The echo is the image of your image.
The voice of your voice.
The echo is heavy water that darkens with time.*
Entitled Eco (Spanish for Echo), José María Sicilia’s exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, the sixth since 1983, marks a decisive turning point in the artist’s oeuvre. He explores here new techniques and media leading to a deep introspection on one’s self and the world.
In the main exhibition space, six bronze “doors” resound with four marble “doors.”
Two paintings delineate the space: Suspendido de su canto (“Suspended from his song”), paintings in graphite on plaster.
In the glass-roof room, works on paper decline sheep skins, flower petals – as many textures and carpets as those that echo the Paradise.
ECO – Mirrors
The dimensions of the bronze are the dimensions of a door. The text has been acid-bitten like in an etching. It was then lightly worked, slightly erased as when one writes on a sandy beach and the waves washing upon the shore efface the traces little by little. I wanted the viewer to read through this text.
The sentences are everyday questions. The mirror absorbs us. It becomes the Vanity of our own image.
CECILIA – Constellations
Cecilia – the name that José María Sicilia gives to the doors in white marble – speaks of the universe, the reflection of a reflection. Each slab, hand-sculpted, contains an image of the sky corresponding to a month of the year.
The land of the sky in the land of the water.
The stars are – also – islands.
All living water is dying water.
This universe is an echo. It speaks of the mother.
SUSPENDIDO DE SU CANTO – Bird songs
A geometry of octagons which lie in octagons. Different songs inhabit this octagony. They are represented by sonograms, genuine imprints of sounds given out by birds, allowing them to be visualized.
The octagon is a representation of the bird, a symbol of the soul, of rebirth, in both the Occidental and Oriental worlds (see Ruqbihân Baku, Ibn Sinâ, carpets of the 16th-17th century Western Anatolia, Holbein carpets, certain prayer mats).
It is a manner of making the space go backwards in front of me.
The bird’s song is an instant, only an instant – not the past, not the future. This instant is plenitude. One knows that one exists. It feeds us and at the same time it eats us. It is the consciousness of our solitude.
The bird’s song that has just disappeared is more dead than death. The duration of a bird’s song is made of instants with no duration. This duration is life.
The bird song makes time stand still. It expresses ecstasy. It gives us back the lost unity.
This time does not flow – it gushes forth.
*The sentences in italics are José María Sicilia’s.
José Maria Sicilia
Born in 1954 in Madrid
Lives and works in Majorca and Paris
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2007
"Eclipses", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2005
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canaries, Spain
2004
"El peso de las lagrimas", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
2003
"La Luz que se apaga", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
José María Sicilia, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
José María Sicilia, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
2002
"En Flor", Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
"La tumba en el aire", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
2001
José-Maria Sicilia, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Issoire, France
"Paintings", Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
"Jose Maria Sicilia", Galeria Maior, Pollença, Mallorca, Spain
"New works on paper and Mirrors", Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, U.K.
"Jose Maria Sicilia. Un despertar sense imatge", Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Galeria Carmen de la Calle, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
2000
"De los espejos", Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Chantal Crousel,Paris, France
"En Flor", Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, France
Michael Hue Williams, London, U.K.
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
"Sicilia en Silos", Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain
"Los orificios, estampas", Galeria Estiarte, Madris, Spain
1999
"Flowers, bee-hives, head-rests", Stand Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Photo, Paris, France
"Selected Works", tamada Projects Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
"Jose Maria Sicilia, Recent works", Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
1998
Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy
"Fleurs, ruches, repose-têtes", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1997
"L’Horabaixa", Museo Nacional Centro d’Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; Palais des Beaux-arts, Charleroi, Belgium ; Museo de la Pasion, Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, Spain ; Museo d’Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo d’Arte y Disegno Contemporaneo de San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
1996
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gandy Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic
"La luz que se apaga", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas, Canary
"Obra Grafica", Ediciones T, Barcelona, Spain
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Galeria Gian ferrari, Milan, Italy
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Michael Hue Williams, London, U.K.
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Jaspers, Odense, Denmark
1993
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Fundacion Pilar i Juan Miro, Palma de Majorca, Spain
"Et in Arcadia Ego", Sala del Banco Zaragozano, Saragosse ; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Grenada ; Centro d’Arte Palacio Almundi, Murcia, Spain
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa, Portugal
Galeria Comicos Luis Serpa, Lisboa, Portugal
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1992
"Form+Farbe", Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1991
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
"Al aire de su vuelo", Pavillion Mudéjar, Sevilla, Spain
1990
Thomas Seagal Gallery, Boston, USA
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Centro del Carmen, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Gian Enzo Esperone, Roma, Italy
Runkel-Hue Williams, London, U.K.
1988
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Palacio de Velasquez, Madrid, Spain
Palacete Embarcadero, Santander, Sapin
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1986
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Sevilla, Spain
Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1985
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Koln, Germany
Galerie Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
Sala de Exposiciones, Disputacion de Malaga, Spain
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Sevilla, Spain
1984
Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
1983
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
Galerie Gaston Nelson, Villeurbanne, France
1982
Galerie Trans / Form, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
"Mutations des ailes", Galerie de l’Ancien Collège, Ecole des Arts Plastiques, Châtellerault, France
2005
"Voisins Officiels, Collection du Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu", Musée d’art moderne de Lille Métropole, France
"Las mil y una noches", Sicilia, Morente, Goytisoso, el Centro Atlànthico de Arte Moderno, Vagueta/Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain
2004
"Contrepoint", Le Louvre, Paris, France
2003
"Jardin des plantes", FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
"Through the Eye of a Needle", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2002
"Le vaste monde à livre ouvert. Manuscrits médiévaux en dialogue avec l’art contemporain", Bruges, Belgium
2001
"+ vrai que nature", Capc, Musée d’ art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
2000
Artissima, Arte contemporanea a Torino, Italy
1997
"Los ochenta en la Fundacio Central Hispano", Fundacion Museo Evaristo Valle, Gijon, Spain
"Nuevas Abstracciones Espanolas", Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas, Canary
"Sibila. Obra Grafica", Galeria DV, San Sebastien, Spain
"Arte Espanol para el Fin de Siglo", Sala de Atarazanas, Valencia, Spain
"Helmut Federle, José Maria Sicilia, Michel Young" Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Limited, London, U.K.
1996
Monumentos , Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
"Postrimerias, Alegoriasde la muerte en el arte español contemporaneo", Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
"Aquellos 80", Casas del Aguila y La Parra, Conserjeria de Cultura, Santander"Torridos Terrenos", Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Sibila, Séville; Galeria Charpa, Valencia; Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
"1985-1996. Obra original sobre papel", Coleccion Fundesco, Sala de Exposiciones de Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
"Fondos para una coleccion", Sala de Exposiciones Plaza de España de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
"Coleccion Testimonio 95-96"Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelone; Nueva Sala de Exposiciones Banco Herrero, Ovide, Spain
"Arte Español para fin de Siglo", Centro Cultural Tecla Sala, L' Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
"Small Scale", Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA
1995
"Corps de la Mémoire", L' Espace d' Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées, France
"Art Athina 3' 95", Athens, Greece
"A la Pintura", Coleccion Argentaria, Sala de Exposiciones Santa Inés, Sevilla"Malpais", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1994
"Artistas Españoles años 80-90"Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Comme dans une image", Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
"Autorretratos Españoles del Siglo XX", Fundacion Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid; Sala Amos Salvador, Logrogne, Spain
"Je vous ai tant aimés", CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux , France
"Col.leccio Testimoni 93-94", Sala Sant Jaume, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
1993
"Colección de Arte Contemporáneo", Madrid ; Pavillon Mudéjar, Sevilla, Spain
"Madrid 80", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Homenaje a Cravanne", Casa de Vacas, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain
"10 Pintores/10 Escultores en los 80", Estacion Maritima, Ayuntamiento de A Corogne, Spain
"Impulsos y Expresiones", Circulo Cultural de la Fundacion La Caixa, Granollers, Spain
"Desde la Pintura", Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico D. F., Mexico
"Noise", Galerie Christine de Bras-Yves Bical, Bruxels, Belgium
"What's about John?", Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rouen, France
1992
"A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper", Toni Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA"Espagne: 23 Artistes pour l'An 2000", Artcurial, Paris, France
"Pasajes", EXPO'92, Pavillon de España, Sevilla, Spain
"XII° Salon de los 16", Pavillon Mudéjar, Seville ; MEAC, Madrid, Spain
"Madrid, Pintado", Museo Municipal, Madrid, Spain
"Arte en España 1920-1990", Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain ; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico ; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria
1991
"Katherine Bowling, Bryan Hunt, J. M. Sicilia", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Abstracción: Color", Galería Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
"Prints in Series", Crown Point Press, New York, USA
"Imágenes Líricas: New Spanish Visions", The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New York, USA
"Peinture et Matière", Galerie Hadrien Thomas, Paris, France
"Anniversary Exhibition", Galería Joan Prats, New York, USA
"Por la Pintura", Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca ; Palacio de Sastago, Saragosse, Spain
Galería Maior, Pollensa, Majorca, Spain
"Spanische Kunst Aktualitat und Tradition", Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
"Artistes pour Amnesty International", Hotel des Arts. Fondation des Arts, Paris, France
"Col.leccio Testimoni", 91-92, la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Tropismes", Tecla Sala, La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Los 80 en la Colección Fundación la Caixa", Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
1990
"The Garden", A/D Gallery, New York, USA
"Polyptiques et Paravents", Galerie Bellier, Paris, France
"Papiers-Generation 90", Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Galería Jorge Albero, Madrid, Spain
"Imágenes de la Abstracción", Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, France
"Imágenes Líricas, New Spanish Visions", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
"Colección Fin de Siglo", Galería Almirante, Madrid, Spain
"Pharmakon' 90", Nippon Convention Center, International Exhibition Hall, Chiba, Japan
"Visión Contemporánea III- Miquel Barceló, Luis Feito, J. M. Sicilia", Galería Puchol, Valencia, Spain
Turske & Turske, Zurich, Switzerland
"Modern Master IV", Runkel Hue Williams, London, U.K.
"Colección de Arte Contemporáneo del Patrimonio Nacional", Palau Sollerie, Palma de Majorca, Spain
"Six Artistes Espagnols à Paris", Centre d' Art Contemporain, Castres, France
1989
"Die Spanische Kunst in der Sammlung der Fundacio Caixa de Pensions", Barcelona ; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Stadtlische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany ; Centre Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
"Amigos del Centro de Arte Reina Sofía", MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
"Artistes Espagnols du XXème Siècle", Galerie Jean Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
"Coleccion de Dibujos", Galeria La Maquina Española, Madrid, Spain
"Important Works on Paper", Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, USA
"Weiner Dtwan: Sigmund Freud Heute", Museum des 20 Jahrunderts, Vie
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