ARMAN
Markus Lüpertz and Toni Politeo at the Art Center Berlin
SOTO CORNEILLE
MATTA KOUNELLIS
VEDOVA
Graphic Portfolio FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
till March 5th, 2007
AGAM Israel ARMAN USA BERROCAL Spain BOGAERT Netherlands BRACCHITTA Italy BRANDES Denmark BUCAN Croatia CANOGAR Spain CAPA Spain CARUNCHO Spain CHRISTO UND JEANNE-CLAUDE USA COGNEE France COMBAS France CORNEILLE Netherlands DE GUIMARAES Portugal ERRO Iceland GIRBES Spain GORDILLO Spain GUINOVART Spain KLASEN Germany KOCHI Japan KOUNELLIS Greece KOZARIC Croatia KRIKI France KUCKEI Germany LEIBERG Germany LESIAK Croatia LINDSTRÖM Sweden LLONA Peru LÜPERTZ Germany MARKOS Hungary MATTA Chile MA TSE LIN China MESSAGIER France MIOTTE France MONDINO Italy MOYA Spain MURTIC Croatia NOVAK Croatia RANCILLAC France SCHLEIME Germany SELDEN USA SEGUI Argentina SOTO Venezuela STÄMPFLI Switzerland SUNAGAWA Japan TEXIER France VEDOVA Italy VELICKOVIC France YUN HYONG KEUN Korea
The story of the "Graphic Portfolio Federico Garcia Lorca" was born in 1997 during a leisurely walk whilst the Croatian art collector and gallery owner Toni Politeo was strolling through Madrid at wintertime. This promenade, a talk he had with the Spanish artist Caruncho, and maybe his own "derivation from literature" inspired Politeo toward his ambitious project. He wanted recognised artist from all over the world to dedicate works of homage to the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca who was murdered in 1936.
During the next seven years a masterwork of graphic was created. Fifty outstanding artists from 22 different countries were involved.
A graphic portfolio was created that became exceptional in quality and quantity and the participating artist made it truly unique. Artist of different generations took part together with their work: for example Roberto Matta from Chile who lived not only at the same time as Lorca but who was also a friend of him.
Like Roberto Matta, who died in 2002, many of the participating artists are now only alive through their art: In 1999 Jean Messagier and in 2005 the artists Arman, Jesus Rafael Soto, Edo Murtic and Aldo Mondino died. The print folder has already become an important document of art history. It displays the wide variety of coeval art at the dawn of the new millennium and it shows us the wonderful variety of different techniques of printing brought to their highest perfection.
