Zilia Sánchez
Havana, Cuba, 1926
Havana, Cuba, 1926
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, assemblage artist, and teacher. Sánchez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana. She left Cuba in 1960 and lived in Spain, Italy, Canada and New York. She learned art-restoration techniques at the Herbert E. Feist Gallery in New York and the Instituto Central de Conservación y Restauración in Madrid, and she studied printmaking at the Pratt Institute in New York. She was awarded a Cintas Foundation grant, and took part in international events such as the Sao Paulo Biennial. During the seventies, Sánchez created several murals on the façades of residential buildings in Puerto Rico. Since 1991, she has taught at the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts and the Art Students League of San Juan. In her abstract work, usually in series and in a minimalist style, she uses stretched canvases with jutting, somewhat erotically charged reliefs, which she accentuates with circular applications of pigment in neutral tones of gray, black, and ochre.
“Everything that has something hidden is emotional and subliminal. Metaphors in poetry give the work a disharmony which is sometimes beautiful. I am very attracted to everything that has something to give harmony where there is no harmony. The dis-equilibrium is more beautiful. I change - from one work to the next, as when I found Eros, which I discovered by reading books encountered in NYC. These investigations give one a security that the work is on the right path.”
Source: Zilia Sanchez – Lunare, la marca de la belleza. https://phaven-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/files/document_part/asset/224387/qe...
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Traba, Marta. “El erotismo y la comunicación”, Zilia Sánchez. Museo Casa Roig. 1991.
Zilia Sánchez. Heroicas/Eróticas. Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 4 al 23 de abril de 2000.
Cotter, Holand. “Zilia Sanchez”. The New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU), 13 de junio de 2013.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Zilia Sánchez reveals mysteries of the human body”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 20 de febrero de 1994, p. 7.
Pérez Ruiz, José. “Zilia Sánchez. Heroicas/Eróticas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 11 de julio de 2000, p.102.
Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto J. “Zilia Sánchez”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 20 de septiembre de 1970, pp. 8-9.
Zilia Sánchez. Artist Space, (Nueva York, EEUU). http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/zilia-sanchez#Spanish-text
Zilia Sánche. Art in America. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/zilia-sanchez/
Jiménez, Ivelisse. “Zilia Sánchez”, Boomsite. http://bombsite.com/issues/86/articles/2612