Biomorphism art movement
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The Guillermo de Osma Gallery opens the season with the exhibition “Biomorphism. 1920-1950 ”, where 60 works will be exhibited, including oil paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures. It is the first time that an exhibition is organized with the ambition to analyze and show this artistic phenomenon.
The exhibition has been conceived by Guitemie Maldonado for the Le Minotaure and Alain le Gaillard galleries in Paris. Historian and professor at the University of Paris, Maldonado is the author of the book “Le Cercle et l’amibe. Le biomorphisme dans l’art des années 1930 ”(Paris, 2006). The Madrid show takes up that idea, incorporating many new features, among which the contribution of Spanish art stands out.
Biomorphism is characterized by the recurrent use of a type of simple and irregular plastic forms that evoke the organic or biological world: neurons, amoebas, cells, constellations ... They are generally curvilinear and give rise to an impression of movement, evolution or transformation. The forms are familiar as well as intriguing, located in the border area bet
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Mark, Reet. "Endel Kõksi abstraktsetest maalidest." Baltic Journal of Art History 11 (November 30, 2016): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2016.11.07.
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The artist Endel Kõks (1912–1983) is a member of the same generation of Estonian ar- •
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