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  Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist whose work consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose presented in contexts he calls Environments. His artistic project pushes the boundaries and limits of art, literature, philosophy, and religion. Martínez Celaya uses the human figure in the landscape as a means to explore the nature of human experience and the search for meaning, which dwells in the transient world of time and memory, identity and displacement.
[edit] Life and art[edit] Early life and workEnrique Martínez Celaya was born in Palos, Cuba on June 9, 1964. He was uprooted at age eight to move with his family to Spain. Three years later, his family moved to Puerto Rico, where he was apprenticed to an academic painter. This childhood experience of exile plays a formative role in his artistic practice. Martínez Celaya came to the United States in 1982 as a physics student. He received a BS in applied physics from Cornell University in 1986 and an MS in quantum electronics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. While pursuing his graduate work he built a laser, received prizes from the Department of Energy and the National Congress of Science, received recognition and patents for his work at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Electronics Research Laboratory in Berkeley, and tried to continue to paint. On the verge of completing his doctorate in physics, Martínez Celaya abandoned his studies to pursue painting as a career, earning an MFA with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. [edit] Recent workMartínez Celaya uses imagery heavy with symbolism, such as the solitary human figure in the landscape, birds, deer, rainbows, dogs, and apples heavy with snow. Despite these representational images, his work resists narrative and moves towards the iconic. It draws from the prose of Jorge Luis Borges, Herman Melville, and Leo Tolstoy; the poetry of Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, Harry Martinson, and José Saramago; the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, Hegel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; the paintings of Velasquez, Casper David Friedrich, and Ferdinand Hodler; the films of Andrei Tarkovsky; and the music of Bach. Daybreak, L.A. Louver, Venice, California (20 November 2008-3 January 2009): The environment consists of thirteen paintings and two sculptures that use the relationship between human and the landscape to reflect on the nature and structure of experience, recollection, and aspiration. Nomad, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida (2007): The exhibition consisted of five large-scale, oil-and-wax paintings, which explores issues of exile and rootlessness. Inspired by the works of Swedish poet and Nobel Prize laureate Harry Martinson, the paintings evoke a dream-like state of suspension in which the exile lives: time passes and yet nothing changes. Coming Home, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2006): Coming Home (2000), a sculptural group that consists of a boy and a gigantic deer is presented within an ambitious photographic environment. Schneebett, Berliner Philharmonie in Berlin, Germany (2004): The final stage in the artist’s Beethoven cycle, this large-scale installation is a meditation on Beethoven's deathbed. The project also included performances by the orchestra and a public lecture sponsored by the American Academy in Berlin. The installation was also presented at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (2006). Martínez Celaya's work is in the permanent collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska), Denver Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany, among many others. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Delray Beach, Florida. [edit] Selected BooksMartínez Celaya founded Whale and Star in 1998, a publishing house that specializes in art and art's relationship to other intellectual and creative fields, especially literature and philosophy. The University of Nebraska Press serves as Whale and Star's primary distributor. Recent titles include:
Martínez Celaya also created the watercolors for a children's book "The Return of the Storks" written by Lorie Karnath and published through Akira Ikeda Gallery in Berlin. [edit] AwardsMartínez Celaya was awarded the Brookhaven National Laboratory Fellowship (1986-1988), Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellow and Regents Fellow from the University of California (1992-94). He received Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art Here and Now Award (1998), the Hirsch Grant (2002), the Rosa Blanca Award from the Cuban Community (2002), and the California Community Foundation Fellowship, Getty Foundation Award (2004). He was honored with the Inaugural Colorado Contemporary Arts Collaborative Artist Residency at the CU Art Museum sponsored by Kent and Vicki Logan (2004). And he also received the Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2007 National Artist Award (2006). [edit] TeachingIn 1994 Martínez Celaya was appointed Assistant Professor of Painting at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University, where he taught until 2003, when he resigned his tenured position of Associate Professor, to devote more time to his artistic practice. However, he continues to be a popular and influential teacher throughout the country. He is currently a faculty member at the well-known Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. He was also appointed Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska (2007-2010), where he is developing interdisciplinary conversations between artistic, religious, scientific, philosophical, and literary practice. In addition to these appointments, Martínez Celaya has lectured at the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska), Miami Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Hope Center (Richmond, Virginia), and the Berliner Philharmonie and the American Academy in Berlin. [edit] Quotes"Being ethical away from the world is easier than in the world. I think some people see the path of abstraction as pure, uncompromised, but it could just be avoidance; artists who insist on removing their work from human struggles take a tidy path, which seems especially wasteful for those whose lives are in turmoil and confusion." [1] "Time is an insurmountable gap only negotiated through memory, remembrance, regret, longing, love. I think we are rarely blessed with the ability to see the present for what it is—all that there is." [2] "Today, to claim any significance or meaning, even if only to ourselves, is to flirt with ridicule."[3] "What I have tried to do with my works is to observe--poorly, but better than I would've without art--who I am, who others are, and what the world is."[4] "Authenticity involves living with the anxiety of death and creates responsibility for Being; certainly the end means we are accountable in life. Or perhaps more concretely: we are accountable at every moment. The final judgment, so apparent in the bed-of-death, is not just at the end, but is always upon us--and every moment, our last."[5] [edit] Selected Bibliography
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