The Botanical Garden has inaugurated ‘Por las ramas’, the exhibition which means the reappearance of the painter Manuel Sáez after nine years of silence. The powerful colour, the orthogonal grid and a trained look to highlight some of the most special elements of the garden, make up a common thread to sew the twenty-four pieces.
Moreover, for this occasion, the Botanical Garden has adapted an ancient greenhouse, the ‘Estufa fría’, which has already host other exhibitions but which didn’t have yet the appropriate infrastructure for hosting original pieces during large periods of time.
Jaime Güemes, the curator of the Botanical Garden, and Manuel Sáez, coordinator of the exhibition, have been in the presentation. As they have explained, the proposal emerged from a casual meeting between both and the artist was sure that he will do a portrait of the Garden if it was possible.
The exhibition will be open until 24 September. It represents the return of Manuel Sáez to the Garden because he did another exhibition twenty-one years ago called ‘Trópicos’, a show that was at the Botanical and show the work he did in a travel to Dominican Republic. In that moment, the exhibition was made up of drawings of exotic plants, fruits and another details.
This time, the project of Manuel Sáez shows the author’s admiration of the garden, where he spends most of his leisure time, and the urban oasis. However, as he says, his work is based on nature but he is not a naturalist. That is the reason why he not only shows textures and details of what we can found in a walk through the Garden, but also goes into laboratories and conservation and maintenance spaces and he focus on elements which appear to be new.
Jaime Güemes explains us that Manuel Sáez has captured the origin of the Garden, that is to say, the thing which it was Huerto the Tramolleres when its creation was being planned. Moreover, he compares it with the explorers of the 18th century that travelled the world to find new spaces and species but in our time by starting a travel through his particular universe. The botany has always been related to drawing and nothing better than the hand of Sáez to make this portrait.
The last time that we were able to see the piece of Manuel Sáez was in the Parpalló Hall, in 2008. Manuel, who currently lives and works in Valencia, has a long list of individual and collective exhibitions that have been in all the country, as well as Europe and South America. The IVAM, the Círculo de Bellas artes de Madrid, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in México or the Contemporary Art Museum in Montevideo, among others, as well as galleries and its pieces are a part of a long list of public and private collections. He was awarded with the Ícaro Prize and the Grant of the Spanish Academy for Fine Arts in Rome. He designed the Ágora of the Universitat Jaume I. It is a big white glove made up of 27,930 porcelain pieces. www.msaez.com
The exhibition will be open until 24 September 2017 in the Estufa Fría of the Botanical Garden. From Monday to Sunday, from 10:30 to 14:30 and 16:00 to 20:00. The entry to the exhibition is free by paying the entry to the Garden. The catalogue of the exhibition will be available in the ticket office of the Garden.
Last update: 26 de may de 2017 11:43.
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