Pablo Palazuelo's Musical Calligraphies Land at the MACA
13.09.2013
The exhibition titled Palazuelo. Musical Calligraphies is a co-production of the MACA in collaboration with the CEART, Tomás y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada with the participation of the Provincial Council of Alicante and the invaluable contribution of the Palazuelo Foundation. The exhibition opens on September 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the MACA and can be seen in the temporary exhibitions room until December 8, 2013. This exhibition, curated by Rosa Castells and Alicia Ventura, titled Palazuelo. Musical Calligraphies aims to approach the artist's work from its relationship with music, exploring the intimate relationship that exists between his work, sound and silence. A relationship that is discovered from the earliest works created in Paris, some as evident as those written On the Staff or the sets of signs arranged in moving drawings as Forgotten Things. Also in his later compositions, rhythm, tempo, fugue, intensity, chords, timbre or tone are essential matters… The point and the line become signs of a form of musical notation, a calligraphy that can be understood as a code and language of a primordial sound, of that music that is at the origin, that is vibration, energy that flows filling and coagulating all the spaces of the world.
Pablo Palazuelo is one of the key figures in Spanish art of the second half of the twentieth century. An exceptional artist within the panorama of Spanish abstract art, not only because he is the author of a full and rich body of work in its diversity that makes him singular, but also because he departs from the general trends in which the rest of the artists of his generation were inscribed, more interested in material or gestural abstraction. His work, always meticulous and pristine, responds to a very personal geometric conception characterized by an extremely refined technique and an admirable sense of color, constants that are always present throughout his entire career.This exhibition titled Palazuelo. Musical Calligraphies aimed to approach the artist's work from his relationship with music, exploring the intimate relationship that exists between his work, sound and silence. It allowed one to contemplate how musical language underlies the entire trajectory of the Madrid-born creator as a common denominator element. The exhibition presents works from public and private institutions, from museums and foundations as well as from private collectors who generously lent their works for this exhibition, without which it would not have been possible.
