The Fire of Heaven

Name: The Fire of Heaven
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Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers

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The Fire of Heaven explores the artistic dialogue between Enrique Martínez Celaya and the renowned Californian poet Robinson Jeffers. Celaya's diverse oeuvre reflects themes of self, memory, home, exile, myth, and identity, linked to Jeffers' poetic reverence for the natural world, particularly the California coastline. The exhibition, inspired by Jeffers' poem The Summit Redwood, brings together Celaya's work created during his residency at Jeffers' Carmel-by-the-Sea home alongside Jeffers' original handwritten poems, notes, and photographs.
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Format: Hardback

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This book will captivate readers interested in contemporary art, poetry, Californian culture, and the intersection of visual and literary arts.

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The Fire of Heaven presents the work of Enrique Martínez Celaya in conversation with the life and work of the influential twentieth-century California poet Robinson Jeffers. Despite existing in different lifetimes, Jeffers' approach to life as art and his reverence for the natural beauty of the California coastline inextricably link the uncompromising poet to Celaya.

The artist's multi-faceted practice explores the map of a territory shaped by self, memory, ideations of home, exile, myth, and identity. His practice presumes art should be an ethical effort that aims to understand better and be engaged with the world and ourselves.

Beyond these threads of commonality, Celaya draws from specific Jeffers' writings, such as the 1928 poem The Summit Redwood, which serves as the exhibition's namesake and describes "the fire from heaven" as a force untamed and ignited at whim.

Celaya's work created during his stay at the poet's landmark home in Carmel-by-the-Sea is complemented by Jeffers' handwritten poems, notes, and photographs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775753937

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 January 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 124 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Shana Nys Dambrot
Foreword by Corey Madden
Text by Enrique Martínez Celaya
Text by Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction

About the Author

ENRIQUE MARTINEZ CELAYA (*1964) was born in Cuba, grew up in Spain and Puerto Rico. He came to the U.S. to study science, and not until the late stages of his doctoral research in physics did he turn fully to art. His monumental and multi-faceted body of work connects art to literature, philosophy, and science. The painter, sculptor, and writer is living in Los Angeles.