Boomerang, 1985


 

Medium: Embossed etching
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Price: 650 USD MLA Gallery offers competitive pricing, well below retail, on all of our inventory.

 

Description:

This is an excellent example of original Salinas work on paper, that is from the early 80's. This was a particularly rich period for Salinas, as he did work that had more of an abstract expressionist quality. The work is both stunning and profound.
This is one of the few photo collages remaining by this artist. This gallery has only had a few of these works, from this genre. They are exquistie. Salinas was deeply influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, and his mentor Joan Miro, who he studied with for years, in Barcelona. Salinas is quoted as saying: "Because of my connection and collaboration with poets and writers such as María Zambrano, José Angel Valente, Pere Gimferrer, and Michel Butor, I developed a concept of the language of the clouds. This consisted basically of a grey background with white as the main color of my palette–the white symbolizing clouds. I also used pictograms, ideograms, and strange alphabets like the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Iberian alphabet". On another occasion Salinas was quoted as follows: "To me, painting is not work. It is something that transcends labor. I love to be in my studio painting because I forget about everything else. I’m so concentrated on it that it is like a meditation. I concentrate on what I’m doing and I enjoy it while I’m doing it. I enjoy seeing a wide space being developed into something that has life. It’s always been the most important thing in my life. And architecture was never so.”
Baruj Salinas is the most significant, and well established contemporary artist this gallery represents. He has work in the permanent collections of over 35 museums, and has had over 100 solo shows worldwide.
This is outstanding, and difficult to find work, from this artists' most sought after period, and is investment grade original art. MLA Gallery not only provides a guarantee of authentication in writing, but also offers a life time trade in policy. Please inquire.