About

Jose María Sicilia and Signs

“Dánae teje el tiempo dorado por el Nilo”
(“Danae weaves the golden time across the Nile”)
José Lezama Lima

Enrique Juncosa
(Translation)

José María Sicilia (Madrid, 1954), one of the great names of Spanish
contemporary art, belongs to the so-called 1980’s generation, period coined by
Juan Manuel Bonet as “the painted years” (“los años pintados”). Like most of
his generation’s peers, he rejected the dominant minimalist formalism to
reassert the importance of meaning and the non-dogmatic visioning of things.
His celebrated work back then, especially what would become his …