The Marbella Engraving Museum examines the figure of the artist Arturo Vermi

The Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving will host this Wednesday and Thursday, April 22 and 23, the lecture series 'Arturo Vermi and the poetics of reduction', an initiative aimed at delving into the language of minimalism and analytic abstraction under the coordination of María Jesús Martínez Silvente, PhD in Art History and Professor at the University of Malaga. This proposal is part of the exhibition currently housed in the cultural venue, titled 'The Perseverance of the Minimal: Arturo Vermi', which is the first exhibition in Spain dedicated to this pioneering artist of minimalism in Europe.

The opening day will take place on Wednesday, April 22, at 7:00 PM, with the lecture 'Arturo Vermi, the poetry of the minimalist sign', by the Italian historian and curator Simona Bartolena. Bartolena, a specialist in the work of this key artist of 'Pittura Analitica', will analyze his creative evolution from his first material investigations to an extreme refinement in his mature stage. During the session, it will be examined how he turns painting into a process of precision and concentration, giving structural and poetic weight to the minimal gesture as the axis of his visual thinking.

Dr. Rocío Gracia Ipiña, with extensive experience in institutions such as La Casa Encendida and La Laboral Art Center, will offer a detailed introduction to minimalism

The series will continue on Thursday, April 23, also at 7:00 PM, with the lecture 'Minimal Art: origin, fundamentals, and legacy', given by Dr. Rocío Gracia Ipiña in Art History. This session will provide a detailed introduction to minimalism as a conceptual matrix, focusing on fundamental strategies such as formal economy, seriality, and repetition. Gracia Ipiña, with extensive experience in institutions such as La Casa Encendida and La Laboral Art Center, will address how these principles of American origin influenced the development of new pictorial and sculptural sensibilities on the European continent.

With this activity, the Museum continues its work of mediation and dissemination, bringing closer to both specialized and general audiences the keys to the most influential artistic languages of the 20th century. Additionally, the coordination by María Jesús Martínez Silvente provides an expert vision supported by her participation in more than a hundred conferences on contemporary art and her role as a member of the Programming Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving.