Sign I – (Pablo Diego José Francisco De Paula Juan Nepomuceno María De Los Remedios Cipriano De La Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Y Picasso) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Pablo Diego José Francisco De Paula Juan Nepomuceno María De Los Remedios Cipriano De La Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Y Picasso

Date: 2003

Size: 188 x 174 cm

Museum: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Over the course of his nearly seven-decade-long career, Pablo Palazuelo developed a highly personal form of geometric abstraction that was informed by esoteric teachings, the Kabbalah, and Eastern philosophy, as well as mathematics and science. Like the sculptor Eduardo Chillida, whom he befriended upon moving to Paris in 1948, Palazuelo initially studied architecture before he decided to become a full-time painter in 1939. (He later ventured into three dimensions as well, producing sculpture beginning in 1954.) In the 1940s he was influenced by the abstraction of Paul Klee, and by the early 1950s—inspired by his reading of Theosophy and hermetic texts that dealt with the connections between numbers and the sacred or the psychic, and the correspondence between sounds and colors—Palazuelo committed himself to a language of geometric forms. For Palazuelo, geometry lay at the origin of life and constituted the most inventive process, permitting a vision of hidden structures, potential new forms, and the metamorphosis of one form into another.Sign I (Signo I, 2003) belongs to a family of works that reflect Palazuelo