Menhirs. Elena Asins

Menhires, a work by Elena Asins, was donated by the artist to the Museum in 2015. The piece, made up of 40 lacquered wooden menhirs, is the result of the artist's reflection on the emptiness of the void.

INAUGURATION APRIL 18 20.00H

MASTERCLASS APRIL 20TH 12H

Elena Asins reflects on time, on the past transferred to the present in a sculptural exhibition around the figure of the menhir. Menhirs is a sculptural work composed of 40 lacquered wooden menhirs, measuring 24x24x24, dating from 1995. Asins explained at the time that "this cut obeys an imaginary grid in which there is an extraction for the vacuum that covers four parts of a surface and half a part of the surface behind it". The artist donated this work in 2015 to the Museum and since then it has been part of the collection.

ELENA ASINS

Elena Asins, (Madrid 1940 - Navarra, 2015), was a visual artist, writer, lecturer and art critic. She based her plastic language on the systematic calculation based on computers. She was one of the first Spanish artists to use technology as an ally of art. Asins has exhibited in museums, private and public collections, such as the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, the Instituto de Valenciano de Arte Moderno and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, among others. In 2006 he received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts from the Government of Spain and in 2011 the National Plastic Arts Award.