IVAM Installs Five Monumental Sculptures by Gerardo Rueda in Valladolid
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Friday, December 6, 2024


IVAM Installs Five Monumental Sculptures by Gerardo Rueda in Valladolid
Gerardo Rueda, Rosario, 1992.



VALLADOLID.- Gerardo Rueda devoted part of his work to public sculpture, so this sample of pieces from the collection of IVAM Valencia aims to bring the public and all those who visit us this facet of his creative career in this area of Valladolid downtown dedicated the urban leisure. The exhibition displays a set of five large-format works that reflect the sculptural technique of Rueda, who reconciles his constructive side with his passion for the coloring, the prospects geometric, the still life and use of materials like wood and iron Chrome .

This exhibition, which is sponsored by Caja Duero, will be displayed until next January 25 at the Plaza Zorrilla in Valladolid. In February 2009 will be installed on the Paseo del Prado in Madrid.

Gerardo Rueda (Madrid 1926-1996) belongs to a generation of artists more engaged with their time and art, as Fernando Zóbel or Gustavo Torner, with whom he founded the Museum of Abstract Spanish Art of Cuenca. Self-taught, he abandoned his law studies so as to dedicate himself to painting. His first works, marked by a cubist influence, already contained the seeds of what would be his whole subsequent production: order and structure. In fact, the objective that accompanied the whole of his artistic career was to reduce content to its purest essence, dispensing with anecdotes or unnecessary detail, the fruit of an interior need for a space of silence and meditation, but without opting for geometric abstraction.

Although the history has placed Rueda in the realm of informalism, with his glance at the classic being understood as not being an interest in antiquity but rather a formal attitude in which monumentality and harmonic structures are highlighted, along with his use of colour as a physical entity, bringing him to occupy his own place within the History of Art.

Spain's representative in the XXX Venice Biennial (1960) and a member of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando since 1995, Gerardo Rueda's weight lies not just in the importance of his work but also in his contribution, along with Fernando Zóbel and Gustavo Torner to the creation of Cuenca's Museo de Arte Español Abstracto, a key point for the dissemination of new aesthetic proposals developed in Spain in the 50s and 60s and which had a notable influence on subsequent generations of artists.












Today's News

December 1, 2008

Museum of Islamic Art Opens in Iconic I.M. Pei Designed Landmark Building in Doha, Qatar

National Gallery in UK to Present Major Exhibition Picasso: Challenging the Past in 2009

The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga Opened Tracey Emin: 20 Years

Office for Contemporary Art in Norway Opens Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?

Erhard Klein: Thoroughly Concentrated Opens at Kunstmuseum Bonn

IVAM Installs Five Monumental Sculptures by Gerardo Rueda in Valladolid

Kunsthaus Zürich Announces Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan - Turin / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969

The Museum of Modern Art Salutes Agnieszka Holland with Major Film Retrospective

Peter Freeth RA: My Affair with Resin at the Royal Academy of Arts

People of Today: Faces of Wales at National Portrait Gallery in London

Tallest Building in China Breaks Ground

Institute of Contemporary Arts Presents Seven International Artists

Painting the Heart of Russia: Nikolai Timkovs Sustaining Vision

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Appoints New Head of Prints and Drawings

New Orleans Museum of Art Offers Free Admission through January 18

The Turner Prize, Only Better

Soldier Billboard in Miami Wynwood District

Going Public '08 - Port City Safari - the Sound of the City

Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát at Phoenix Art Museum




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful