A court in Madrid has ordered the four frame embargo of the artist Jose Maria Sicilia exhibited at ARCO, as published by ‘El Confidencial’. Ifema sources confirmed the facts to ABC and that the court order has been complied with. The works, which were taken down from the gallery stand Chantal Crousel from Paris, are in an Ifema warehouse waiting for the judge to decide who they should be delivered to. Under the title ‘Tell you’ (Tell yourself), hung four works (paper, digital printing, watercolor, tempera and silk), which were sold in pairs. Each pair had a price of 100,000 euros. José María Sicilia did not want to make any statement to ABC.
Information from ‘El Confidencial’ explains that the embargo “is a caution ordered by a Madrid court investigating a possible seizure of assets of the artist. This would have occurred due to the alleged evasions of the artist to pay the divorce sentence issued by a court in Paris. Apparently, his second ex-wife, Elisabeth Marie de Bazelaire de Boucheporn, “has been on a crusade for months over a divorce decree issued by the Provincial Court of Paris on June 4, 2019 in which the payment of about 800,000 euros is decreed , which rise above a million due to legal interest ».
The embargoed works are part of an exhibition that José María Sicilia (Madrid, 1954) is preparing for the Vatican library and whose inauguration is scheduled for next November. The show revolves around ‘Arabian Nights’. A project in which she addresses the issue of survival and which is conceived as a kind of personal diary, in which she uses painting, drawing, photography, embroidery and poetry. He has taken as his starting point an edition of the book with the translation of Mardrus from 1892, which he acquired at the Oriental Library in Paris.
In addition, the artist has inaugurated this week an installation in the Lavapies squarewhich is titled ‘Miracle’. It consists of five showcases with metal structures that include as many methacrylate plates with die-cut words (they light up with LEDs), related to Wittgenstein about what a miracle is: ‘Miracle’, ‘You are a miracle’, ‘You open ‘, ‘You flourish’ and ‘I admire you’.
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