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Zilia Sanchez

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Zilia Sanchez showcases the distinctive work of Cuban-born artist Zilia Sanchez, whose formal abstraction is defined by undulating silhouettes, muted colour palettes, and a deeply personal, sensual visual language. The publication highlights her exceptional formed canvases, crafted over fifty years, which range from intimate to monumental scale and are shaped through her unique technique of stretching canvas over hand-moulded wooden frameworks. This book accompanies her first solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong New York and offers a rare glimpse into art largely unseen outside Puerto Rico since 1972.
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Format: Hardback
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, formal abstraction, and Latin American artists. It is particularly suited to those who appreciate innovative painting techniques and feminist perspectives in visual art.

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The work of Cuban-born artist Zilia Sanchez is characterized by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted color palettes, and a personal, sensual language. Sanchez's exceptional formed canvases, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental and span fifty years of artistic production,

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The work of Cuban-born artist Zilia Sanchez is characterised by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted colour palettes, and a personal, sensual language. Sanchez's exceptional formed canvases, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental and span fifty years of artistic production, have seldom been seen outside of Puerto Rico, where she has lived and worked since 1972.

Produced in conjunction with the artist's first solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong New York, this publication focuses on Sanchez's shaped paintings made three-dimensional through her unique method of stretching canvases over hand-moulded wooden frameworks.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781940291390

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 December 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Edition: English

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • By Zilia Sanchez

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 243.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 72

About the Author

Zilia Sanchez is an avant-garde artist who from the 1950s began to question the established canons of abstraction. She is a great visionary whose works should be in the most important museums of contemporary art in Latin America.

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