Remembering the historic Athletic Cup title on the walls of your home through the creations of Dario Urzay is now possible thanks to the limited edition that the Guggenheim is going to put on sale with two works of which … The artist designed it expressly to encourage the team and these days they cover the façade of the museum. Thus, next month 100 units of each of these graphic works by Urzay will be marketed, titled ‘Cathedral-Goal Keeping I’ and ‘Cathedral-Goal Keeping II’, which immortalize the red and whites’ achievement of the 25th Copa del Rey. The two sheets will be purchased as a ‘pack’ and will not be sold separately.
These works belong to the ‘Shoot Strokes’ series, a catalog of large-scale photographs that the artist conceived to support Athletic before the Cup final and which are currently installed in the architecture of the Guggenheim. With this installation, Darío Urzay sought to capture the lights of Bilbao with the team’s colors with the “brush strokes” of his camera, linking the photographic shots with the intense rhythm of a soccer match.
The two works will go on sale on May 3 in a reduced format for those who want to show them off at home and their price is 2,500 euros for the general public and 2,000 for those who have a Guggenheim friends card. They can be purchased in the museum store and the size of the series will be 84.1 x 118.9 centimeters. All prints are numbered and signed by the artist.
The two works by Urzay that will go on sale in May.
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As Darío Urzay tells EL CORREO, the installation on the façade and atrium of the Guggenheim has an expiration date of May 5. “It is a perishable and time-limited work, but it has had a surprising reception,” he explains, which is why it was decided to immortalize it through this small-scale limited series.
Urzay details that the enormity of the assembly in the museum made the project “very risky”, but that he has been satisfied with the result: “It is one thing how it looks in your head and another to bring it to reality with giant stained glass windows, but I decided to risk with the scale and in the end it has been a success. This scale had to be adapted again for the domestic-sized series, but it has been done with the aim that the two works convey the “sense of enormity” of the museum installation.
According to what the museum adds, the images that adorn the walls of the building “have provided one of the most iconic images” of the celebration as the barge passes by, both locally and internationally, given the global media impact of the Athletic celebration. . For this reason, they define the smaller scale numbered and signed edition as “an indelible memory of a milestone that, beyond sports, has united millions of people from all over the territory.”
These works that are now on the market have their origin in the series that Darío Urzay began to develop in the 90s, called ‘Camerastrokes’, which are made “by imitating with the camera the movement of the brush of a gestural painter of abstract expressionism, being the light the matter used. On the occasion of this presentation, a meeting will take place on Thursday, May 9, in which Urzay will talk about the project and the particularities of the edition.
