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Oct 11
Martinez Celaya sculpture to grace Freedom Tower commemorates 50 years of Operation Peter Pan.
A large-scale bronze sculpture created by distinguished Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Tower of Snow honors the 50th anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan, which brought thousands of Cuban children, without their parents, to the United States in pursuit of freedom and stability.
Link>>Miami Dade College
Link>> Youtube-the making of the Tower of Snow
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Jul 13
Enrique Martínez Celaya’s towering bronze work explores the plight of children exiled from Cuba.
A monumental bronze sculpture by the Miami-based artist Enrique Martínez Celaya is due to be unveiled in the courtyard of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg on 10 July (until 31 November). The Tower of Snow, 2012, which depicts a boy on crutches carrying a house on his back, is the latest large-scale sculpture to be installed in the Russian museum’s courtyard following, among others, Louise Bourgeois’s Maman in 2001 and three reclining figures by Henry Moore in 2011.
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Jun 22
From Art Nexus
Cuban American artist Enrique Martínez-Celaya was selected by a commission from the Hermitage Museum to present his sculpture entitled La Torre de Nieve (The Snow Tower) in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The work will remain there from July 11 to November 21 of 2012.
La Torre de Nieve addresses migration, the loss of opportunities, and redemption. These themes are embodied in the figure of an overwhelmed looking young individual in crutches who is shown carrying a house on his head and back. This house is tied to the character by a cord tightened around his neck. The sculpture was created in bronze and is 15 feet high.
According to Martínez-Celaya “… La Torre de Nieve represents a journey and the hope of finding a new place for this ‘home.’ This notion of ‘home’ is both metaphorical and physical…”
May 23
The Latin American auction sale at Christie’s in NYC completed a few hours ago.
Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Paintings at Christie’s commented: “Major records for modern and contemporary Latin American works were set…. The sale was led by Matta’s La révolte des contraires, which realized $5 million, against the high estimate of $2.5 million, and set a world auction record for the artist, a long overdue recognition for one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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Oct 16
Sunday, 10.16.11
By Anne Tschida
Special to the Miami Herald
The entry into this room at the Miami Art Museum, built specifically for this exhibit and seemingly recessed from the main gallery, is startlingly dark.
A dim light ahead suggests the way forward, but meanwhile a loud humming, or more like a chugging sound, fills the space, emanating from an almost old-fashioned looking machine. Turn the corner, and a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling reveals a solitary chair, a somber antechamber. The view from the chair is of a bed, also lit by a single light bulb, which in turn has its own view out into a winter forest with trees covered in snow, bereft of leaves. Although the doorway to this third room is blocked by a low fence built of branches, look closely and the bed is covered, literally, in a frozen blanket with pillow.
Oct 6
From Soul of Miami
Miami Art Museum will present the United States debut of Enrique Martínez Celaya’s Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie. Enrique Martínez Celaya: Schneebett will be on view from October 14, 2011 through January 1, 2012 in the Museum’s Anchor Gallery, a space dedicated to large-scale works from the permanent collection. The exhibition opening will take place October 13, 2011 from 6 to 8pm and feature a performance by members of the Miami Symphony Orchestra.
Schneebett, which reflects on and transports the viewer into the final hours of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life, was the first work of art commissioned for and exhibited at the Berliner Philharmonie since its founding in 1882. It was presented in 2004, and was shown in juxtaposition to the music of the Berliner Philharmoniker with special programming at the American Academy in Berlin. Schneebett was presented again in 2006 at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig where it offered a counterpoint to Max Klinger’s statue of the heroic Beethoven as the creative genius. The title, Schneebett (“Snow-bed”), is from a poem by Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, a meditation on death. To re-animate the spirit of those celebrated exhibitions, Martínez Celaya created a new version of the installation for Miami Art Museum, which opens with a performance of Beethoven’s late quartets by the Miami Symphony Orchestra. A video of the performance will be on view for the duration of the exhibition.
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Sep 12
By Irina Leyva
Art Nexus Magazine Issue #80 Mar - May 2011
Enrique Martinez Celaya is an extremely prolific and multifaceted artist. He is a painter, a sculptor, a photographer and a writer. He is a restless creator that conceives pieces beyond the limitations of a particular media. That¿s what pushes him to master different medias in order to recreate exactly what he had in mind. Despite the fact that he used various techniques, and consequently each piece is restricted to the potential within it, all his work shows a lyricism that transcends the visual aspect. He brings the poetry of his writings to his canvases, achieving a continuous flux of ideas and metaphors. His work has a fable quality; each one narrates a particular story, all connected to him at some degree.
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May 19
Los Angeles, CA
The historian Kenneth Clark purveyed the eventual end to abstraction, citing a cultural need for a fidelity to the real world in real time imagery. In a world significantly gutted with imagery, abstraction at present is about creating a new space in which to think about present day life.
Pissed Elegant is representative of those concerns past and present.
Stephen Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce, Pissed Elegance, a group show of abstract works. The exhibition will showcase a variety of media including painting, photography and sculpture. Featured artists include Arthur Siegel, Ed Ruscha, Arthur Ou, Brian Wall, John McLaughlin, Siri Kaur Bronlyn Jones, James Gobel, Benjamin Lord, Bob Magahay, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Chad Kleitsch, Jason David, Robert Stivers, Monique Prieto and Danny Jauregui. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 14 from 7 to 9 p.m.
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May 6
We are pleased to announce the Sotheby’s Latin American Auction to take place on May 25 and 26.
The following Cuban American Artists are included in the sale:
Jose Bedia, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Julio Larraz, Agustin Fernandez, Carmen Herrera, Emilio Sanchez, Tomas Sanchez, Carlos Alfonzo, and others.
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May 6
We are pleased to announce Christie’s Latin American Auction to take place on May 26 & 27. Location: 20 Rockefeller Plaza, NY
Viewing dates are:
May 21 10am – 5pm
May 22 1pm – 5pm
May 23, 24, 25 10 am – 5pm
May 26 10 am – 12 pm
The following Cuban American Artists are included in the sale:
Cundo Bermudez, Ana Mendieta, Jose Bedia, Julio Larraz, Humberto Calzada, Tomas Sanchez, Arturo Rodriguez, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Carlos Alfonso, and Miguel Padura.
You can also view works by the Grand masters of cuban art – Wilfredo Lam and Amelia Pelaez.
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Apr 20
by Juliana Accioly
Miami Art Guide Magazine 28 Apr/May 2011Enrique Martínez Celaya, a visual artist whose work is associated with the nature of human experience and the search for meaning that dominates so many contemporary societies, was a late bloomer. His interest in artistic expression began in his childhood, but art did not become his profession until well into his twenties. Painting was the starting point of his career, whose possibilities and limits he quickly expanded, crossing traditionally pictorial boundaries into other media like sculpture, installation, and photography. Set in the transient world of time and memory, identity and displacement, Martínez Celaya’s work embodies his belief that being a certain kind of artist means being a certain kind of person and that in and through art one gains clarity about himself and his relationship to the world.
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Mar 28
300 N.E. Second Ave., Miami
Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Arts and Philosophy department will present a talk by renowned Cuban artist Enrique Martinez Celaya at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 31. The event will be held at the Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.
Cuban-born Celaya began his artistic career after studying applied physics at Cornell University and pursuing a doctorate in quantum electronics at the University of California, Berkeley. He eventually earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994.
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