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1975. Galería Vivancos: Gerardo Delgado and José Ramón Sierra

1975. Galería Vivancos: Gerardo Delgado and José Ramón Sierra

25 June 2020 - 17 January 2021

Gallery T2. Curator: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes

The C3A proudly presents the works of two Andalusian artists and architects named Gerardo Delgado and José Ramón Sierra (born in Olivares, Seville, in 1942 and 1945, respectively) had a joint exhibition at Galería Vivancos in Córdoba (in 1975), where they presented a series of radically experimental paintings that expanded the existing field of pictorial creation.

It is important to recall that, at the time, pictorial supports and surfaces were the focus of a number of different movements and experiences across Europe¿a focus expressed quite literally in the name of the French Supports/Surfaces group. Moreover, one decade earlier Clement Greenberg had coined the term ¿post-painterly abstraction¿, which also applies to the works displayed here in the sense that they represent a departure from the traditional format of the picture, exploring new forms in an attempt to subvert its conventional two-dimensionality.

Like many other artists of their generation, Gerardo Delgado and José Ramón Sierra began their careers in the 1960s at La Pasarela in Seville, where they exhibited after winning the gallery¿s annual competition for artists under 30. Both men were painters and architects, as well as designers and teachers. The investigative nature of their formal explorations was combined with a desire to know and learn from what other artists were doing in Spain and the rest of the world, and together they spearheaded the drive for pictorial renewal in Andalusia.

Delgado and Sierra recently donated a number of their works to the CAAC, including some of the pieces they exhibited in Córdoba in 1975. To celebrate this fact and commemorate an important event in the art history of our city, that show has been reconstructed and adapted to the unique architectural setting of the C3A. Forty-five years later, these post-painterly abstractions which expanded the field of painting have returned to the city that first brought them together, once again drawing our attention to supports and surfaces.

 

Download gallery sheet here.

Download exhibition labels here.

Text by Ángel L. Pérez Villén here.

Album on Flickr.

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/image/journal/article?img_id=106658857&t=1611576870428 José Ramón Sierra, Diez paisajes de tormenta, 1974. Colección del Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Junta de Andalucía
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José Ramón Sierra, Diez paisajes de tormenta, 1974. Colección del Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Junta de Andalucía