2017 - El Retorno del Fenicio - MUSEO DE CHICLANA DE LA FRONTERA, Cádiz, Spain
El Retorno del Fenicio
February 24 - April 16, 2017
Museo de Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
Introduction:
«There is no nostalgia in Douglas Abdell's work. He does not even look back, he looks inside him. It is not a matter from the past, but the roots. His passion for Phoenician culture, and his commitment with it, means more than sthetic and plastic.
There is an antropological and sociological dimension in his work. An ethical dimension that makes it specially contemporary. The phoenicians were not colonizers, but trader. They did not look for lands, but people with which, in the search of borter of products, they change ideas, habits, beliefs… Sailing the seas, they approached to people, to understand, to know them.
This is all about Douglas work. His authentic work in authentic material (rich shades stone and bronze). Since the first exhibition in Graham Gallery from New York in 1971, he starts to travel the world (Maryland, Connecticut, Kansas, Tennessee, Berlin, Boston, Los Angeles, Rome, Milan…). He came to Spain in 1985 (Barcelona, Zaragoza and Madrid).»
Jesus Romero
Museum Director
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Works shown:
La Raiz del Fenicio, 1988, mosaic, 72x71 cm
Boli, 1994, cast bronze, 63x20x14 cm
Qrtm, 1992, Sepúlveda stone, 44x35x12 cm
Aba Beri, 1994, Lerida stone, 28x58x5,5 cm
Sur Qrtm, 1994, Calatorao stone, 76x30x12 cm
Friks, 1993, Sepúlveda stone, 76x32x14 cm
Boli Sur, 1993, Sepúlveda stone, 85x26x15 cm
Gdr Sur, 1992, Sepúlveda stone, 84x23x76 cm
Boli, 1993, Sepúlveda stone, 84x26x15 cm
Qrtm 2, 1992, Sepúlveda stone, 85x27x15 cm
Sur, 1995, Sepúlveda stone, 60x30x20 cm
Betyl Sacro, 1999, Sepúlveda stone, 44x28x10 cm
Raices de Occidente, 1999, Sepúlveda stone, 44x26x10 cm
Boli A - B, 2001, Sepúlveda stone, 29x30x11 cm
Boli D - E, 2001, Lerida stone, 33x22x11 cm
Bal K, 2001, Sepúlveda stone, 38x31x13 cm
Tanit Bal 8, 2003, Sepúlveda stone, 23x23x12 cm
Abd Fenicio, 2002, Sepúlveda stone, 34x23x12 cm
Mediterraneo Fenicio, 2003, Sepúlveda stone, 18,5x36x12 cm
E Fenicio, 1987, cast bronze, 44x27x27 cm
M Fenicio, 1987, cast bronze, 46x28x28 cm
Aba Beri, 1994, Calatorao stone, 65x25x11 cm
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