Ángel Orensanz: CV

Biographical Outline

1959 Studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge in Barcelona. MA in Art History.

1961 Sculptures based on the opera Atlántida, at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona.

1965 Studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.

1966 Salon de Mai Gold Medal, Paris. Biennale de Paris.

1967 Everitube sculpture award, Paris.

1968 International Exhibition of Sculpture, Barcelona.

1969 Awarded with the gold medal in sculpture at the Bienal de Zaragoza.

Glass and enamel sculptures at the Royal Sculpture Society, London.

1970 III Exposición Internacional del pequeño Bronce, Madrid.

1972 Sculpture installed in Plaza Joanic, Barcelona.

Exhibition Metro Saint Augustin, Paris.

1973 Environmental Sculpture, installation of 215 steel, wood and fiber pieces in Holland Park, London, organized by the Greater London Council.

Sculptural environmental in Sarrià, Barcelona.

British film documentary on his works shown at MoMa, New York.

1974 Two monumental steel sculptures installed at Barcelona International Airport.

Aluminum sculptures installed at the France – Barcelona international motorway.

1975 Sculpture installed at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Film documentary on his work at Venice Biennale.

Exhibition in Paris. Iron environment piece, Edificio Beatriz, Madrid.

1976 Relief for the library’s façade of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

1977 XIV Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil. Spanish Official Pavilion.

1978 Sculpture Iron Screen, Zaragoza.

Film lecture at Alternative Center for International Arts, New York.

1979 Opening of Museo Ángel Orensanz y Artes de Serrablo, Sabiñánigo, Spain.

1980 Film lectures at Rice University, Houston; California State University, UCLA, Santa Barbara; and Universidad Iberoamericana, México City.

1981 Environment, Martin Gelber collection, Bel Air, Los Angeles.

Film lectures at Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles, and at the Central School of Design, London.

American Landscapes, three ceramic mural reliefs at Boca Raton IBM center, Florida.

1982 Warspell, sculpture installation and performance art at Central Park, New York.

Steel Forest, Madrid International Airport. Exhibitions in Boston and Los Angeles.

1984 Exhibition at the Vejle Museum, Vejle, Denmark.

Furrow Sculpture, landscape art over a six acre tract in the Pyrenees Mountains, Spain.

1985 May Pole and Spirit of the Valley, landscape sculpture installations in Sallent de Gállego, Spain.

Sun Screen, a permanent installation of one thousand fiber pieces and steel cables, Sea Island, Georgia.

1986 Spirit of the Village, temporary installation at Sixth Avenue and Bleecker Street, New York.

1987 Exhibitions at Neue Berliner Galerie in Altem Museum, Berlin and Musée de Luxembourg, Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

1988 Opening of the Ángel Orensanz Foundation, Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk Street, New York.

Exhibitions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Saint Nazaire-Paris, St. Germain en Laye-Toulouse, Lisbon and Casablanca (Morocco).

1990 Sunrise, sculpture in steel and performance art at Bunka Gakuin University, Tokyo.

Musicalia, a one year environmental exhibition in Ropongi Park, Tokyo.

1991 Retrospective at Tallin Arts Center, Tallin, Estonia, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Estonia.Exhibitions in Panevezys, Lithuania, and Red Square, Moscow.

1992 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo.

Installation, Miasaki Airport, Japan.

Wall Sculpture, Barcelona International Airport.

Banderillas del Guadalquivir, an open air installation in Sapporo, Japan, New York and Seville, Spain.

1994 Temporary Installations in front of Rome’s Colosseo and Fontana de’ Trevi.

Homage to Alexander Saeltzer in front of Cologne’s Cathedral (Germany) and Fire Field at Berlin’s Reichstag.

1995 Exhibitions: Sculptor’s Society of Canada, Toronto; Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland; Retrospective exhibition at Charles Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1996 Group show at the Albo d’oro gallery, Rome, together with Eduardo Chillida, Giacomo Manzù and Henry Moore.

1998 Retrospective exhibitions in Rome (Ca’ d’Oro gallery) and Dusseldorf (Blau Art gallery).

1999 The Shattered Tent, a travelling installation in Strasbourg, Geneva, Brussels and the UN building, New York, to protest against the Balkans wars.

The Peace Bus, Florence; Città de Firenze Award at the II Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence.

2000 Una Foresta, bronze exhibition at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, organized by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Affairs.

Residency at the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg, Kiel, Germany.

A 60 steel and wood sculpture installation in Montreal, Canada.

Commemorative sculpture of Luis Buñuel, Calanda, Spain.

Wendezeiten (November 2000 to April 2001), an exhibition of eight international sculptors in Bendorf, Austria.

Participation at the IL Biennale di Venezia with a banner within the Markers Project of The Artists’ Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2001 Commemorative sculpture of filmmaker Luis Buñuel for Calanda (Teruel), shown in Madrid.

Scavare il futuro, installation in Caserta, Naples, Italy.

Peace Walk, intervention in front of the Senso-Ji temple in the center of Tokyo.

Wendezeiten II, Bendorf, Austria, an exhibition with Eduardo Chillida, Bernard Venet Venet, Urs Jaeggi and other international sculptors (November 2000 to September 2001).

Disegni 1991-2000, a retrospective of 90 drawings at the Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Ducale di Pavullo nel Frignano, Modena, Italy, (touring exhibition throughout Italy).

Orensanz prints and drawings are purchased by the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, for the masters of drawings and prints collection.

Sculpture intervention in New York’s Fifth Avenue as a reflection on the attacks on the WTC.

Sculpture intervention in Berlin under the Brandenburg Gate.

Lorenzo il Magnifico award at the III Biennale Internazionale d’Arte contemporanea di Firenze.

2002 Disegni 1991-2000, Accademia delle Belle Arti, Reggio Calabria, Italy (February 14 – May 1).

Ángel Orensanz: Italian Installations and Interventions, at the Ángel Orensanz Foundation, New York, curated by Thomas McEvilley (March 5 – April 17).

The City of New York makes April 10 Ángel Orensanz Day.

Sculpture-City textures in Venice, Berlin, Florence, Kultur Im Spannwerk, Berlin (April 27 - May 27).

Power Post, Kassel, Germany.

Intervention at Ground Zero, New York.

2003 Open 2003, International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation (August 27- October 3) Lido, Venice, Orensanz participates with Blade on the Eye. Homage to Luis Buñuel.

Invited to the Controradio Festival of radical culture in Florence.

Filming of video series In Nasa’s Lab and The Steppes of Mars.

Filming of the series European Diaries in Brussels.

Group show at Remy Toledo Gallery, New York.

Angel Orensanz: Recent Video Works, premiere of his film work at the Pioneer Theater, New York.

Burning Universe, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice, curated by Paolo de Grandis.

2004 Opening of the Espace Orensanz, 9 rue de Thorigny, Paris.

Presentation of an hour-long program of his recent video work, under the title: Do Sakuras Blossom in Winter? at the Anthology Film Archives.

His work Buñuel is exhibited at the Cité Universitaire of Paris.

Participates in the Howl! Festival, New York, (August 17-24) with four video pieces Angel Orensanz; Digital Awareness and a sculpture group at Tompkins Square Park.

Opens his exhibition Burning Universe. Digital Poetry of a Galaxy in Ruins at the APA arts center in Budapest, (September 2 - October 3).

Invited to ARCO 04 (Madrid).

The steppes of Mars, Sculpture installation.

2005 Fondation de France, Prix Pierre Oulmont sculpture award.

Exhibition at Vert Gallant Gallery, Paris, January.

Earth: Death-Birth exhibition at the Alexander Pushkin Museum, Moscow (May 2 – June 30) and at the Rumyantsev Palace, St. Petersburg (June 2 - 30); he is awarded with the Alexander Pushkin Award and granted with the Medal of the City by The City Council of St. Petersburg.

Sculpture intervention over the Riva Neva in the Bay of Finland.

Sculptural intervention by the Moscow’s Kremlin, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Second World War.

Film shoot of Burning Universe at the Grand Canal in Venice, (first week of February).

Circles over Venice sculpture installation along the Grand Canal and at the Giardini della Bienale for the entire duration of the LI Biennale di Venezia.

Drawings exhibition at the Galleria Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice, Italy.

Temporary installation in Central Park (Southeastern lake entrance, June - November 2005).

The Museum of Modern Art, New York opens The Orensanz Portfolio: Ángel Orensanz and His Art, an ongoing compilation of 8 video pieces edited and directed by Donna Cameron, and distributed by the Circulating Film and Video Library.

Panel discussion in New York of six art critics on Orensanz’s aesthetics.

2006 Don Quijote Returns to Castile, a landscape piece of a square kilometer ploughed over a tract of land in Dos Barrios, 50 kms. away from Madrid.

His glass sculptures made in Murano (Venice), are given as awards by the Fitsa Foundation in Madrid, and acquired by Saatchi and Saatchi.

Retrospective exhibition of his work presented at the Water Museum, Lisbon (April 21 - June 30).

Sails of Departure-Sails of Arrival, a sculpture exhibition at the Ludwig Museum/State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg (August).

2007 Mobiles. A Balancing Act, Mocando Art Gallery, London.

Dinosaurios del Espacio, retrospective exhibition at the Galería Dolores de Sierra, Madrid (March 28 - April 21).

Exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israel (May 22 - July 22).

Retrospective Exhibition at the MoMA Wales, Machynlleth (May 22 - July 22).

The Garden before the Serpent, temporary installation at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, (October 2007- June 2008).Ángel Orensanz in Coimbra, exhibition at the Coimbra Water Museum, Coimbra, Portugal.

Los Orensanz de Orensanz, retrospective exhibition at the Cajalón headquarters gallery, Zaragoza, Spain (November 13 – December 31).

2008 Travelling exhibition at Givataim, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel (January - March).

La felice instabilità dell’arte, Castello della Cuba, Palermo, Italy, (February 9 – March 8), curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.

Exhibition at the Orestiadi Foundation, Sicily, where a room is dedicated to his work.

He creates a large relief in wax to commemorate the centenary of the 1908 earthquake that destroyed Messina, Sicily.

Grand Award of the International Sculpture and Installation Exhibition in Lido, Venice, Italy.

The Far reaches of the Space, an art shuttle exhibition throughout the main museums of and art fairs in New York during the last week of March.

Sculpture for the World Trade Center, Zaragoza, Spain.

Sculpture in steel for the new airport of Zaragoza.

Intervention in Córdoba, Spain, to commemorate the Spanish Medieval philosopher Maimonides.

Participates in an Eastern European artists exhibition inaugurated in Prague and celebrates the liberation of Eastern Europe.

Yale University a Capella Choir and Ángel Orensanz present their program Salute to Russia at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

He is invited to participate with a tent at the world celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of 1968 in Paris, at the Place de la Ville de Paris.

He is awarded the Grand Cinema Award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival for his short Hovs/Hallar-Wales (The Final Score), a reinterpretation of Ingmar Bergman’s film The Seventh Seal, shot in the coast of Wales.

Publication of the book: Ángel Orensanz. Un escultor en la esfera Publica, Jesús-Pedro Lorente, Editorial Aqua, Zaragoza and Barcelona, 2008 (350 pages).

His work is included in the compilation World Book of Sculpture, by Gerard Xuriguera, 1989 (Paris).

2009 Weightlessness, solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (January).

Matter/Light, exhibition at The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, in occasion of The Armory Show, New York (March 3 - 6). 

Bibliography

Ángel Orensanz. WeightlessnessV. V. A. A.

Exhibition catalogue. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. 68 pages. Artscape Publishers, New York 2009.

Ángel Orensanz en Israel

Doron Polack (ed.)6 volumes. The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum,

Jerusalem, 2008.

Ángel Orensanz. Coimbra

Manuel Carmo

Exhibition catalogue. 94 pages. Museu da Água da Coimbra,

Coimbra, 2008.

La Felice Instabilità dell’Arte. The Joyous Instability of Art. Ángel Orensanz. Castello della Cuba, Palermo.Achille Bonito Oliva.

Exhibition catalogue. 48 pages. Fondazione Palazzo Intelligente, Palermo, 2008.

El Escultor Ángel Orensanz. Un Artista Global en la Esfera Pública

Sculptor Ángel Orensanz. A Global Artist in the Public SphereJesús-Pedro Lorente.

300 pages. Ediciones Aneto, Zaragoza, 2008.

Los Orensanz de Orensanz

Jesús-Pedro Lorente

Exhibition catalogue. 82 pages. Cajalón, Zaragoza, 2007.

Ángel Orensanz. Windtides SculptureV. V. A. A.

Exhibition catalogue. 144 pages. Ángel Orensanz Foundation,

New York, 2007.

Ángel Orensanz. Reflactant Universe

Margarida Rua Gil Costa

Exhibition catalogue. 28 pages. Museu da Água. Epal, Lisbon, 2006.

Ángel Orensanz. Earth: Death-BirthRobert C. Morgan.

Exhibition catalogue. Alexander Pushkin Museum, Moscow and State Russian Museum at Rumyantzev Palace,

St. Petersburg. 96 pages. Ángel Orensanz Foundation, New York, 2005.

Ángel Orensanz. Burning Universe. Digital Poetry of a Galaxy in RuinsLaszlo Beke, Eva Forgacs, Jessica Glass and Dereck Bentley.

Exhibition catalogue. 50 pages. Fully color illustrated.

Atelier Pro Arts (A. P. A. !), Budapest, 2004.

Ángel Orensanz: Recent Video WorksJessica Glass.

15 pages. Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, 2004.

Ángel Orensanz: Burning Universe

V. V. A. A.

42 pages. Multigraf, Venice, 2003.

Ángel Orensanz. Escultura Total 2003V. V. A. A.

128 pages. Gobierno de Aragon, Zaragoza, 2003.

Ángel Orensanz: UltrarealitésRobin Soans.

Exhibition catalogue. 12 pages. Angel Orensanz Foundation,

New York - Paris, 2003.

Ángel Orensanz: Skulpturen Zeichen

Derek Bentley Exhibition catalogue. 88 pages. Ángel Orensanz Foundation,

New York, 2002.

Ángel Orensanz: Italian Installations and Interventions 1994-2001

Thomas McEvilley.

Exhibition catalogue. 14 pages. Ángel Orensanz Foundation,

New York, 2002.

Ángel Orensanz. Disegni: 1991-2000

John T. SpikeExhibition catalogue. 66 page. Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea

Palazzo Ducale di Pavullo nel Frignano, Modena, 2001.

A. OrensanzDerek Bentley.

Cahiers d’ Art International Monographs, Revue of Art and Culture,

n. 10. 168 pages. Cahiers d’ Art edition, Rome, 2001.

Ángel Orensanz: Sculpture/Nature

Pat Fleisher “Artfocus”, Fall 1995. Pp. 16-17. Fleisher Fine Arts, Inc.,

Toronto, 1995.

Ángel Orensanz Marek Pienkowski (ed.)

Exhibition catalogue. 20 pages. Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych,

Wroclaw, 1995.

Abitare la Terra con la SculturaÁngel Orensanz

Cahiers d’ Art International, Rivista Internazionale d’Arte e Cultura,

n. 7. Pp. 144-157. Cahiers d’ Art srl, Rome, 1995.

Banderillas del Guadalquivir

Ignacio Montaño Jiménez (ed.) Exhibition catalogue. 14 pages. Gráficas Santa María, Coria, 1992.

Escultoevaluación de Ángel Orensanz

(Estudio, Crítica e Interpretación)

Mario Ángel Marrodán104 pages. Ediciones Cardeñoso, Vigo, 1990.

Orensanz. Sculpture, Architecture, & Urban Environments

Charles Spencer Exhibition catalogue. 16 pages. 193 Tenth Avenue, New York, 1983.

Surco Escultura. Furrow SculptureÁngel Orensanz.

Exhibition catalogue. 51 pages. Museo Ángel Orensanz y Artes

del Serrablo, Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Sabiñánigo, Huesca,

Spain, 1983.

Museo Ángel Orensanz y Artes del SerrabloInstututo de Cultura y Arte Contemporaneo. Leonardo Galería de Arte, Zaragoza. 40 pages. Octavio y Félez, S. A., Zaragoza, 1983.

Museo Ángel Orensanz y Artes del SerrabloInstututo de Cultura y Arte Contemporaneo. I Premio Internacional 1982. 49 pages. Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Sabiñánigo, Huesca,

Spain, 1982.

Orensanz. El sentido de la verticalidadLuis Rodríguez Olivares.

“Gazeta del Arte. Exposiciones y subastas.” Año IV, n. 77. Pp. 4-5.

26 May 1976.

Ángel Orensanz. Un Escultor en Manhattan

Michel Tapié Exhibition catalogue. 8 pages. Dau al Set Galeria D’Art,

Barcelona, 1976.

Orensanz Environmental Sculpture

Luis Romero

135 pages. Octavio y Félez, S. A., Zaragoza, 1973.

Videography

 

Four Performances. Edited by Michele Spike, Slow Motion Studio, Modena, Italy, 2001.

City Performances. Florence, Edited by Michele Spike and Luca Ballini, Video Lab Studio, Florence, Italy, 2001.

Spheroid Memories. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2002.

Orbiting Sphere. Edited by Casper Stracke, 2003.

Earth Face. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2002.

Morpheus. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2002.

Book Bound. Edited by King Malopo, New York, 2003.

Ash Snow. Edited by Kodiak Yurkiewick, New York, 2003.

Burning Scapes. Kathi van Koercher, New York, 2004.

In Nasa’s Lab. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2004.

Craters of Mars. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2004.

Edges of Poetry. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2004.

Steel and Cherry Trees. Edited by Zoi Florosz, New York, 2004.

Gran Canal. Filmed and edited by Maurizio Cesena, Venice, 2005.

Donna Cameron “The Orensanz Portfolio”

“The Orensanz Portfolio: Angel Orensanz and His Art” is a collection of eight video art pieces with cinematography and photography jointly developed by Angel Orensanz and Donna Cameron, edited by Donna Cameron, and distributed by the Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film and Video Library.

Do Sakuras Blossom in Winter? 2004, USA.

Night Spell. 2004, USA.

Windswept Moves. 2005, USA.

House of Chairs. 2005, USA.

Iconic Fires. 2005, USA

Sunsets. 2005, USA.

Day and Night. 2005, USA.

Windtides I & II. Based on original footage by Angel Orensanz edited by Donna Cameron, 2007

Hovs/Hallar-Wales (The Final Score). Edited by Juanli Carrión, New York, 2008.

Poetics of Speed. Edited by Juanli Carrión, New York, 2008.

River of Fire. Edited by Juanli Carrión, New York, 2008.

Utah, New York, Paris (Orensanz in the Snow). Edited by Andrés F. Barrabés, New York, 2009