The AbEx gestures of Iván Montaña
An appreciation By Douglas I. Sheer New York 01/12/2020 There is a direct linear progression in the painting of Iván Montaña to that of many European painters active since the late 1940s. Montaña was born in the Catalan city of Tarragona in 1975 and is part of a multi-generational family of artists. Montana started working as a graphic designer and thereby improved hispainting technique. 1996 was his first exhibition in Barcelona and since then, he has been working exclusively as a painter. For nearly eighty years two side-by-side sub-groups of artists have created Abstract Expressionist paintings, at once in support of and in opposition to each other. Most were either color field artists or gestural abstractionists. Montaña is primarily an adherent of the latter sensibility. Montaña carries on an established tradition of AbEx painting, what the late New York critic Harold Rosenberg called the Tradition of the New... |
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IVÁN MONTAÑA