Art Basel Miami Beach: Kabinett: Zilia Sánchez

For the Kabinett sector of Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to present small-scale paintings and marble and bronze sculptures by Zilia Sánchez. Primarily recognized for her shaped canvases, first created in Havana in the 1960s and further developed while living in Havana, New York, and San Juan, Sánchez's work is characterized by a distinctive approach to formal abstraction through use of a sensual formal vocabulary. Based on plaster maquettes made decades earlier, the recently realized sculptures on view similarly engage with geometric abstraction through the exploration of the female form. 

In a remarkable career spanning over seven decades, Sánchez has explored the juxtapositions between the feminine and the masculine, the painterly and the sculptural, the personal and the universal, the exterior body and the interior self. The colors and serial processes she employs connect her to Minimalism, though the sensuality and embrace of the curve in her work bear witness to the unique language Sánchez has developed.