In 2015 Martínez Celaya, born 90 km from Havana in 1964, opened the Empire: Sea & Empire: Land exhibition. My relationship with Jack Shainman’s artists is signalized by rejoicing and fascination: Nick Cave, El Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, the Cubans Yoan Capote and Enrique Martínez Celaya, and other pure cracks are some names from its line-up. There may not be another New York space that personifies the spirit pro-peripheral of the Magiciens de la Terre in the Pompidou, 1989, with as this gallery. Jack Shainman is one of the most multicultural, multi-ethnic, and embracive galleries I know. THE TRAIN STOPS TEN MINUTES AGAIN: Chelsea

In a blink, the theory I kneaded so much, already written and examined with my pupils about the contemporary art lack of potential of being touching, sink with this man, and I wished to write to Arthur Danto and say yes, I had found not only an interesting piece in an art fair but also effecting. (Perhaps it’s another work but that’s not the point, I’m pretty sure that any of his paintings would have stopped me anyway). Its author was Enrique Martínez Celaya and, if I remember rightly, the work was The boy with a horse. Only a painting, capricious, atypical in that panorama, manages to get me out of the stun. It was 2011, and I was walking the Convention Center by one of these corridors that cross it from Washington Avenue to Convention Center Drive. Personally, I owe some remarkable stuff to ArtBasel Miami Beach. Fairs are, first and foremost, vertigo, and this is an ambiguous sensation. I have a strong belief that art fairs are just not a patina, PR, or a red carpet. His first drawings, made when he was 10 years old, were a conscious effort to give meaning to life, he says. It is a condition that he will perpetually carry with him. The modern aspiration is complete, and comes apart, in him -a total Renaissance and the man with a fractured identity.

Merge into him, as in the ancient Greek gymnasium or the Samurai culture, the virtue and genius. Martínez Celaya is the last descendant of Leonardo da Vinci: Doctor in Physics, Professor, writer, and artist….

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