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Unbroken Poetry: The Work of Enrique Martínez Celaya By Anne Trueblood Brodzky Conversations with Donald Baechler and Amnon Yariv 112 pages, Hardcover, 1999. Enrique Martínez Celaya (born in Cuba in 1964) is one of the most difficult to understand and exciting young artists working today. Painter, photographer, sculptor and poet, Martínez Celaya, moves masterfully through materials as diverse as lucent tar, wax, fresh flowers, paint, and words. He draws upon his Spanish youth, his education in physics and art in New York and California, and such influential characters as his grandfather and the artist to whom he was apprenticed to create a body of work that reconciles contradictory ideas and styles. With rare clarity and restraint Martínez Celaya explores loss, alienation, foreignness, beauty, and new ways to think about the art object and the problem it raises. What emerges is a body of work radically concerned with meaning. Loss and its transcendence through consciousness is the pervasive theme in Unbroken Poetry: The Work of Enrique Martínez Celaya. Martínez Celaya's world is revealed in an in-depth essay by San Francisco writer and curator Anne Trueblood Brodzky. Drawing from the artist's sketchbooks, personal interviews with the artist, and the works of Martínez Celaya, Brodzky describes his impetus and methods in a conceptual volume of exceptional beauty and voice. The artist's disciplined joint pursuit of physics and art fuels conversations with New York artist Donald Baechler and Caltech physicist, Amnon Yariv. In Unbroken Poetry, we are invited to stand close to the visions of Enrique Martínez Celaya, not only to observe and empathize with his world but also to acknowledge the images brought forth from our own. Previous------Return to Whale and Star |