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Guerrero, etchings and the biophormic abstraction
José Guerrero (Granada, 1914-Barcelona, 1991) was a painter and engraver. One of most important events in your life was your “American years“. Effectively, José Guerrero arrived in the USA in November 1949, after marrying the American journalist Roxane Whittier Pollock in Paris. Equipped with his studies at the School of […]
Montolieu, again
Every May the Collection Gelonch Viladegut has an appointment programmed in Montolieu, a village of the Department of Aude in the Region Languedoc-Roussillon, in the Southeast of France, a village that is auto qualified as a village of the book. A village that astonishes for your dynamism, for the push […]
TEFAF Maastricht: Works on paper
Today is the opening day of TEFAF 2014 (March, 14-23). TEFAF Maastricht is pre-eminent in the global art and antiques market but never stands still and is always looking for ways to strengthen its position further. The Executive Committee’s decision to create a specialist section for works on paper in […]
Engraving’s collector: Why? How?
Some personal thinkings in the perspective of the exhibition “Contemporary Catalan Artists”-Works of the Gelonch-Viladegut Collection, at the American University of Paris: The current context for a citizen engraving’s collector. The humanities remind us where we have been and help us envision where we are going. Emphasizing critical perspective and […]
Actuality of engravings: Frasconi’s example
In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies. He found inspiration in comic books as well as the […]
Happiness
(Transcription of speech of Antoni Gelonch Viladegut in the ‘vernissage’ of “La permanence de la gravure: de Dürer à Goya” exhibition, Montolieu, 05/26/2012) Today I am an especially happy man. I am happy to be here in Montolieu to participate in the opening of a beautiful exhibition featuring my Collection […]
Montolieu
The name of Montolieu probably doesn’t evoke anything for most readers of this blog, and this is a real pity because this place, and specially its inhabitants deserve to be better known. Montolieu (Montoliu, in Occitan) is a French village in the ‘département Aude’, of the Languedoc-Roussillon region. People and […]
Museums and prints (2): The British Museum example
Last week, our article presented the example of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York, a brilliant example of the place which prints have in this world-class museum. But I don’t want to give the idea that prints only have a good place with in modern art. Therefore […]
Museums and Prints (1): The MoMA example
In some Museums, basically in Southern Europe, directors or curators are not very keen to exhibit or collect prints. There is in their mind an opinion of differentiation between higher and lower culture, between higher and lower arts. Is this model adopted by most Museums, also valid in America? The […]
Boston as example
I praised the modernity of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, programming two exhibitions of graphical work this summer. Well, this autumn one can visit 4 exhibitions of engravings in the area of Boston. And, in my view, that’s obviously a great news In the Harvard Art […]