April 13 – May 31, 1985
Artists Space is pleased to announce the opening of Five Spanish Artists, on Saturday, April 13, 1985, from 5 to 7pm. The exhibition which includes work of Miguel Barcelo, Miguel Angel Campano, Menchu Lamas, Ferran Garcia Sevilla, Jose-Maria Sicilia, will be on view until Saturday, May 11, 1985.
Organized by Donald Sultan
In a statement included in the catalogue accompanying this exhibition, Donald Sultan, who selected the artists for the show, talks about his interests in Spanish painting. "When one stops to consider Cotan, Melendez, Velasquez. El Greco, Goya, Picasso and Miro, one concludes that very few countries have had such a profound and continuing impact on the course of Western art. The new generation of artists carry this great legacy as well as the ambitions that are generated by the new." Donald Sultan had his first exhibition at Artists Space in 1977, and in 1979 organized a group show called Artists Draw. An exhibit of his new paintings will open on April 3rd at the Blum Helman Gallery and will run until the 27th.
Miguel Barcelo, one of Spain's better-know contemporary artists was born in Felanitx (Mallorca) in 1957. He has exhibited work in a broad network of European galleries in Paris, Toulouse, Zurich, Basel, and Naples. In New York, he's been included in group exhibitions at the Annina Nosei Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. Represented by the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery in Madrid, Barcelo has also shown in many spaces in Barcelona, among them the Metronom and the Fundacion Miro.
Miguel Angel Campana, born in 1948 has been exhibiting his paintings since 1969. Though his exhibition history primarily concerns galleries in Spain, such as the recent "Cato Cero" show in Alicante, organized by Kevin Powers, he has also shown at the Espace Avant-Premiere in Paris, the Kunsthalle of Nuremburg and at the National Art Gallery of Athens. He is represented by the Galeria Fernando Vijando in Madrid.
Menchu Lamas, born in 1954 had he first one-person exhibition in 1982 at the Galeria Buedes, of Madrid, where she is currently represented. Most recent exhibitions include those at the Galeria Juana de Aizpuru in Sevilla, the Collectio de Arquiteros, Malaga and the Galeria Palace, Granada. Her most recent show abroad occurred in Hamburg and the Galeria Gabriel von Loeter
Ferran Garcia Sevillas, born in Palma de Mallorca in 1949 had many of his first exhibitions in Barcelona at La Caixa, Mataro Museum, Galeria G and Galeria Cientro. He has shown in Madrid at Galeria Maeght. Galeria Yorba and Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, where is currently represented. His work has aslo been included in exhibitions in Vienna at the Galeria Ariadne, in Cologne at the Paul Maenz Galerie and in Naples at the Galeria Liarumma. A leading critic of Catalan art, as well as a conceptual artist in the early 70s, he began painting in the late 70's to broaden his expressive range.
Jose-Maria Sicilia was born in Madrid in 1954. His first exhibition of paintings took place in 1982 at the Galerie Trans-Form in Paris, and was followed by inclusion in the Paris Biennale that same year. He has shown most recently at the Galeria Fernando Vijande, where he is represented, the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Holland. He has been included in this year's Paris Biennale.
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