Nucleate, 1979


 

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 wonderful print, was published by EdicionesPoligrafa, in Barcelona, Spain. It is large, and is printed on a thick Guarro paper. The colors are stunning, and this print is typical of the perfectionist work that Poligrafa is known for. This one is from the H.C. edition of only 15. He 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 mypalette–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 enjoyit 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. Andarchitecture was never so.”