Buenos Aires’ Museum of Modern Art Presents José Manuel Ciria’s “Windows”

Buenos Aires’ Museum of Modern Art is proud to display Spanish artist José Manuel Ciria’s magnificent show. The exhibition includes one hundred artworks that have been specifically handpicked for this event since they represent the figurative facet of the artist, but the abstraction is always present. Artworks created on horseback between the artist’s studio in Madrid and New York, the city where he has lived over the last seven years.

Large-format works coexist with a selection of small photographic collages. Works in which CIRIA consolidates, just as pointed out by North American art critic Donald Kuspit, “an absolute mastery of his expression means and tools, painting and modernist vocabulary of abstraction, gestural and geometric.”

The show will be accompanied by the edition of a catalogue with texts written by the curator of the exhibition, Gabriel Serrano, and Spanish art critic Carlos Delgado.

Windows project is a huge traveling show that comes from Bucharest, (Rumania) and begins its American tour in Buenos Aires, followed by Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru and Mexico.

This expo comes after the screening, on May 29, of a documentary on CIRIA at New York’s MoMA, a project conceived three years ago when the painter met movie director Artur Balder in Manhattan. The result of this meeting was the idea of producing a documentary on the artist and his career, as a reflection on contemporary art. After over a year of shooting, the documentary was successfully screened at the skyscraper city.

CIRIA has consolidated his position since the 1990s and the first years of the new century, as an indispensable artist. His extraordinary ability to face new challenges, his attitude to a research painting style opened to all sort of experimentations and a perfectly-structured conceptual platform, rich and polyhedral, have placed his name among the most influential artists of his generation.

This show, to be taking place at Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, has been unconditionally supported by Telefónica and the Cultural Office of Spain’s Embassy in Buenos Aires, AECID, Iberia and NH Hoteles.

The show will be taken place between August 22 and October 6, 2013.

Source: Press release