Eduardo Arranz-Bravo: The Moment of Painting: A RETROSPECTIVE

OCTOBER 2017

New York | San Francisco

THE MOMENT OF PAINTING

All acts of love gaze at both the moment and at eternity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Eduardo has entered a clearly musical period. In some cases, his tempo of choice is the counterpoint: painting, understood as a low note, clearly differentiated from the compositional harmony of the background as in The Big Tender and Big Dream. However, in the more euphoric series, the musical tempo is more like a symphony — a symphony of colors that erupt and burst out in the background of the composition, like flavors exploding on the palate. The tempo is also an explosion of forms, as if the artist were attempting to capture, through volume and line, the waves of pleasure and energy generated by the intense experience of a life-filled moment.

This seems to me a mature approach to painting; the forms generated are now the consequence of longer, richer, deeper reflection on the human experience.

But love, in Arranz-Bravo’s work, is the fountain from which all his imagery flows.

—Albert Mercadé, Artistic Director, Arranz-Bravo Foundation, from the exhibition catalog

We are thrilled to have in our RETROSPECTIVE 30 older works of art which were included in an exhibition at the Arranz-Bravo foundation earlier this year. The exhibition, titled 75-75, was in honor of Eduardo’s 75th birthday and included 75 works, mostly from the artist’s personal collection, with interpretive comments by people from the cultural and civil community.

EXHIBITION CATALOG

COLLECTION

Magic rocks, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 102 in, 2016

Sensible woman, oil on canvas, 102 x 76.5 in, 2015

Three, oil on canvas, 51 x 103 in, 2016

Joy III, oil on canvas, 78.5 x 59 in, 2015

Kationa, oil on canvas, 76 x 23.5 in, 2016

Everduring II, oil on canvas, 39 x 25 in, 2015

Son, oil on canvas, 25 x 18 in, 2016

SOLD Yayan, oil on canvas, 78 x 28 in, 2016

Opera V, oil on canvas, 18 x 10.5 in, 2016

Bianco, oil on canvas, 71 x 19.5 in, 2016

Even march, oil on canvas, 57 x 101 in, 2016

The life, oil on canvas, 78 x 156 in, 2016

Always, oil on canvas, 78 x 78 in, 2016

Arre tatano IV, oil on canvas, 78 x 78 in, 2015

Restless jungle V, oil on canvas, 39 x 32 in, 2015

Salao, oil on canvas, 25.5 x 18 in, 2016

Hip - hip III, oil on canvas, 28 x 28 in, 2016

Hip - hip VI, oil on canvas, 78 x 78 in, 2016

Hip - hip VII, oil on canvas, 59 x 78 in, 2016

The artist, oil on canvas, 78 x 156 in, 2016

Educhka granate, oil on canvas, 78 x 78 in, 2016

Educhka red, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 in, 2016

Educhka si, oil on canvas, 51 x 19.5 in, 2016

City, oil on canvas, 28.5 x 78 in, 2016

Moon day, oil on canvas, 39 x 95 in, 2016

Listo y latino, oil on canvas, 76 x 101 in, 2015

Contapunt 22, oil on canvas, 72 x 19.5 in, 2017

Diptic-happy, oil on canvas, 78 x 51 in, 2017

El tio, oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in, 2017

Heaven, oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in, 2017

Nice conversation, oil on canvas, 58.5 x 58.5 in, 2017

Red, white, black, oil on canvas, 76 x 18 in, 2017

SOLD Triptic content, oil on canvas, 48 x 45 in, 2017

Afer Sebastian, oil on canvas, 51 x 79 in, 2017

Travis Bombardo, matinal, oil on canvas, 51 x 51 in, 1996

Doctor Samarreta, oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in, 2012

Nu que pensa, oil on canvas, 51 x 38 in, 1982

La mamà de Barcelona, oil on canvas, 63 x 25 in, 1988

South love, oil on canvas, 51 x 38 in, 1994

Gran latino, oil on canvas, 45 x 35 in, 1995

SOLD La cosa propia, oil on canvas, 51 x 25 in, 2010

Educhka, oil on canvas, 101 x 57 in, 2016

Barcelona bodegó, oil on canvas, 31.5 x 39 in, 1990

Sèrie 50 #46, oil on canvas, 39 x 39 in, 1991

Big L #5, oil on canvas, 28 x 19.5 in, 1992

SOLD Big, oil on canvas, 21 x 18 in, 1999

SOLD Goethe VI, oil on canvas, 31.5 x 25 in, 1999

Itàlia, oil on canvas, 39 x 31.5 in, 2000

Foam, bronze, 41 x 23 x 12 in, 2016

SOLD Divers 4, collage on paper, 20 x 25.5 in, 1971

Divers 5, collage on paper, 20 x 25.5 in, 1971

Divers 7, collage on paper, 20 x 25.5 in, 1971

Divers 6, collage on paper, 20 x 25.5 in, 1971

Cadaqués, mixed media on paper, 20 x 14 in, 1988

GALLERY INSTALLATIONS

Albert Mercadé, Director of the Arranz-Bravo Foundation, speaks about the artist's recent work.
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Franklin Bowles Galleries
New York.
October 14, 2017

Camera: Victor Lazaro.
Editing: Scott Saraceno

RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION

ARRANZ-BRAVO 75-75

Earlier this year, the Arranz-Bravo Foundation celebrated Eduardo’s 75th birthday with a project suitable to such an important occasion. Seventy-five people from both cultural and civil society were invited to select and comment on a work of art by our artist. They were presented with a choice of seventy-five pieces, consisting of fifty-nine archived retrospective works by Arranz-Bravo, six objects from his personal collection and ten pieces from the collections of the Arranz-Bravo Foundation. All of Arranz-Bravo’s artistic phases are represented in these seventy-five works, which were exhibited alongside their seventy-five interpretations at the Foundation and were also reproduced in an accompanying catalog. The exhibition was appropriately titled: 75-75. The foundation believes that art is made not only by the artist; art is an extraordinary assertion of the collective and the written input from so many participants helped to build a most unusual artistic biography of Eduardo Arranz-Bravo covering the breadth of his career.

The pieces in this section were all included in the 75-75 exhibition.

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