gaceta de arte. revista de cultura internacional. no 33.

Tenerife.: Santa Cruz de Tenerife., (1935, Febrero).. Folded broadsheet. (495 x 340 mm).. Illustrated in monochrome. Issue no. 33 of Eduardo Westedahl's influential magazine of the avant-garde.The 'gaceta de arte' magazine ran to 38 issues, with 600 copies distributed monthly from Tenerife between 1932 - 1936. The gaceta was influenced by Central European avant-garde movements and associated periodicals such as La Revista de Occidente, but the strongest influence was perhaps the rationalism associated with the Bauhaus movement in Germany, whose mark can clearly be seen in the header typeface based on the designs of Franz Roh, and in the layout of the magazine as a whole.Spanish painter and writer Eduardo Westerdahl had visited Central Europe the year prior to the magazine's conception, and his February 1932 editorial manifesto 'Position' cites Stuttgart, Dessau, Paris, Frankfurt, Prague, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Moscow as cities which influenced the culture of his home island of Tenerife. Initially seeking to link avant-garde cultures in Europe with the islands, the magazine also aimed to disassociate itself from nationalism, stating 'we want to reach out to all problems, in the universal contagion of the time…full of the intellectualist light of the time.’ Westerdahl immediately had the support of Domingo Pérez Minik, Agustín Espinosa, Domingo López Torres, Pedro García Cabrera (secretary of the publication until 1935), Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo, Óscar Pestana Ramos, Francisco Aguilar and José Arozena. In tracing key movements in art and literature, the magazine’s subjects encompassed Surrealism, Constructivism, Kandinsky and Spirituality, Purist art and architects Alberto Sartoris and Le Corbusier, to name only a few. Works by Picasso, Arp, Ernst, Klee and many others were situated alongside distinguished authors such as André Breton, Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret. The first exhibition of Surrealism in Spain (May, 1935, held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) was a direct result of the influence of the ‘gaceta de arte’ initiatives, bringing together works by Picasso, Dali, Dominguez, Miro, Duchamp, Man Ray, Ernst and Giacometti. Publication ceased in 1935 due to the Nationalist Uprising which had strong support in the islands - a few of the magazine's members were affiliated with the Spanish socialist party. Nos. 37 (the Picasso issue) and 38 were published in a different format in March and June 1936.