Angel Orensanz at MoMa Wales

Landscape Bones Retrospective of Orensanz Bronze Sculptures at the MoMa Wales

(PRWEB) May 19, 2007 -- This Monday, May 21, will open at MoMa Wales in Machynlleth (Wales) a retrospective exhibition of the work in bronze of Angel Orensanz "Landscape Bones", that will remain open to the public in this vibrant museum of contemporary art of Wales until the 21st of July. The show is made up of 130 bronzes, 9 paintings and a collection of videos of Angel Orensanz ("The Orensanz Portfolio") a contribution of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

"Landscapes Bones" is a collection of medium size pieces that develop a constellation of formats and sizes semantically unified: The desert landscape, the burnt forests, the rocks turned into ashes, the volcanic ranges. The exhibition is a gripping invitation into an environment that dissolves into residues and crusts. It is a vision of the environment radiated and dissolved into skeletons and dust.

This collection of bronzes covers a large period of realization, the last ten years of the work of Angel Orensanz, and anticipates analytical and poetical views of the landscape that lately have become dominant and widespread.

During the opening, Angel Orensanz will give a lecture about his work for a large public that is awaited at the opening ;and will be accompanied by Agnes de Graaf, curator of this exhibition.

This exhibition marks a new step in the presentation of Angel Orensanz in the United Kingdom. It was in London where Angel Orensanz presented his work to the international public as a sculptor in 1973 with his exhibition "Environmental sculpture" in Holland Park.

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