News about Island Project. Exhibitions.
Women Islands Serigraphs in Mahon. When I completed the Women Islands drawings I decided to show them in Menorca. And this summer, the silkscreens of this collection were exhibited at the Artara gallery in Maó.
In February, I had my first contact with Andres Moll, gallery´s director, who was very interested in including these pieces in his collection of graphic art.
This collection of silkscreen prints is a limited edition made at the workshop La Palmera in Barcelona.
Sculpture Exhibition at Sala Delger in Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona. From November 22 to December 7, 2014.
These days I am finalizing the preparation for an upcoming exhibition in Caldes de Montbui. In this exhibition you will be able to see two collections distributed in different areas of the showroom.
On the first floor, The Traffic Light Collection, consisting of sculptures in stone and wood and the collection of lithographs produced in Edinburgh Printmaker workshop. Also drawings in India ink and some ceramic models it can be seen, that I did before to shaping these sculptures.
On a second floor, I will show the Island Project Collection, consisting of wooden sculptures, drawings and serigraphs. This collection is part of a seies I’m currently developing, which unfolds in a process of exploration from my own experiences in “an island” and the artistic experimentation in different techniques and materials.
I will send you more information about the exhibition in a new post.
Project Islands. Winter in Barcelona.
This winter, thanks to Carles Martinez, a colleague from my art school, I was able to learn the art of gilding and polychrome wood. I have made several pieces in small format in which the theme of the islands and the sea remains. In these works the sea has taken the centerplace: the waves and its continuous motion.
They are works in relief and textures made with a chisel on rabbit tail and white plaster, as in classics thecniques. Besides being gilded with gold and fine silver, they have a drawing made from tempera paint made with pigment and egg.
My arrival on the island and the continued Islands Project.
Summer in Menorca Despite arriving on the island in late June, the weather was still cold and there were days with strong winds. The sea was rough and the waves and the wind stirred up the water’s surface. (It´s the Mediterranean, which is usually very calm in summer).
One of these days I went into the sea to swim with a special new glasses and I had an amazing surprise to see the waves inside, the color and stirred foam showed me a different picture of water movement. Also, I saw the sea from below and I watched the water surface as a dense mass in constant motion.
All this beauty started to be captured in my new sculptures. And I decided that this was going to be a new series of Island sculptures where I would focus more on showing the surface of the sea and the waves.
Wood Sculptures.
The wood islands which I’m working on now are really special for me.
The material comes from a unique wooden trunk of mahogany width and thickness. I came across it in a timberyard some years ago and my teacher, Juan Maria Medina advised me to buy it and keep it becouse it is now impossible to find.
Mahogany is a tree that grows only in tropical countries. Indiscriminate logging in the past means that it is disappearing and now, consequently, it is protected and it can not be traded. Therefore I decided to keep most of original features of wood and expose their warmth and texture.
Form and concept.
The format of these sculptures has changed much from the first island sculptures.
Now the works are presented exclusively as water containers.They are no longer abstract shapes that suggest parts and places lived on an island: sea island, island gazebo, island cove, island cave …
Somehow, when I performed the first piece I had in my memory how in the past men thought that the Earth was flat, like a circle that ended at a limit and there was nothing, only emptiness.
Betwen the useful and the poetic.
The final format and presentation of my sculptures are inspired by work that I saw in designer shops in London last spring. However, they were serial pieces and they had been made with industrial materials like resins and plastic.
For this reason, I conceive my sculptures integrated into the everyday habitat: in the living room, on the top of a dresser, on a side table or a dining table. Although they can also be placed on a specifically designed stand where they will be located and exalt their unique sculptural category.
