About the Process
This sculpture is composed of six main blocks or structures of wood that, once assembled, form the complete figure the actual sculpture. These blocks or structures are constructed using layers of glued birch boards, which are then carved sanded, and polished till achieve the desired shape and proportion.
Each block is individually prepared for the painting phase, as only after being painted can they be finally assembled and glued. But before painting, fillers and primers are applied, and a final sanding is done to achieve a finer and more detailed finish. Once all the assembled parts have been painted, only the final lacquer application in a booth remains, allowing it to cure properly and getting done.
"We find ourselves before objects that refer us to an unknown world that is not under the rule of the logos, a place that is not subject to the speed of information and where the unprecedented makes its way.
Therefore, the pieces could be seen almost as the dystopian representation of gods of an ancestral culture, an aesthetics of emotions to create objects of desire and worship, pieces that refer to a lost nature of a contemporary tribalism where objects become icons of forgotten civilizations.
With this body of work, the author recognizes that art pieces can occupy multiple domains: the aesthetic and the transcendent, the commodified and the priceless, and emphasizes that even within a cultural context shaped by image, consumption and artificial intelligences, basic emotions such as love, friendship, loneliness and alienation remain constant in the artist's gaze.
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that the artist and theorist Fermin Moreno
