Sin título (from the series Estructuras pictóricas)

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Artist Sandú Darié(Romanian, active Cuba, 1906–1991)Romanian, active Cuba, 1906–1991

CultureCuban

Titles

Sin título (from the series Estructuras pictóricas)
Untitled (from the series Pictorial Structures)

Date1956

MediumCasein on wood construction

Dimensions23 3/4 × 37 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (60.3 × 95.3 × 4.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the 2017 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction

Object number2018.86

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 205

Exposé

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Department

Latin American Art

Object Type

SCULPTURE

DescriptionCon
lo innovador de estas maderas, Darié desafía la rigidez de la cuadrícula
llevando la forma y el color fuera del cuadro. Refiriéndose a Piet Mondrian, se
vale de ritmos sincopados en cuadrados y líneas de colores primarios insinuando
movimiento sobre la superficie de la obra. Darié, además, incluye realces en
los planos de la madera sobreponiendo círculos y triángulos a la estructura
ortogonal. Tales tácticas crean profundidad virtual llevando la composición al
espacio del observador.
ProvenanceThe artist; Serafina Nuñez Ortiz; [Ignacio Pedronzo, Sammer Gallery, Miami, 2017]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Published References Since this work has remained in a private collection for decades, it has not appeared in any publications. That said, there a number of recent publications recovering the importance of Cuban Concrete Art and, more specifically, Sandú Darié. Borras, María Luisa. Arte Madí. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, 1997. Lezama, Lima José, Beatriz Gago, Stephanie Noach, Joernis Muñoz. Mas que 10 concretos. Havana: Fundación Arte Cubano, 2015. McEwen, Abigail. Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s. New York: David Zwirner Publications, 2016. McEwen, Abigail. “Sandú Darié: Cuba’s Madista.” Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Yale University Press, 2013. Mosquera, Gerardo, Elsa Vega, René Francisco, and Ana Clara Silva. Adiós Utopia: Art in Cuba since 1950. Miami: Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, 2017. Vega, Elsa. Sandú Darié. Havana: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2009. Sandú Darié: exposición antologica, 1945 – 1988. Havana: Ministerio de Cultura, 1988. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in graphite, center bottom edge: DARIE
Verso: Signed and dated in graphite, left center: DARIE / 56

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