Public Opening of “The Word-Shimmering Sea"

Join us for the public opening of this exciting new exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

The Word Shimmering-Sea will be an immersion into Martínez Celaya’s childhood notebook. The setting will facilitate a dialogue about the conditions and imagination of childhood, exile, the promised land, the flow of time, the refuge offered by language, and the nature of painting. What does this dialogue consist of? A series of juxtapositions and pairings: past and present, fifty-three years of distance and the immediate moment, childhood and maturity, lost paradise and longing, words and memories, to name a few. Naturally, these pairings engage each with other in an ongoing conversation. Velázquez’s Portrait of a Little Girl is the confidante in this exchange. And painting, with its material presence and elusive relationship to truth, is the witness.

Read more about the exhibition here

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

3741 Broadway, 3741 Broadway, New York, United States