It was my lunch time and my walk towards my ‘favourite’ (??!!) restaurant came to near halt and got distracted from my phone call. Near to the Singapore river, UOB building hosted sculpture show was the reason. Am generally biased when it comes to metal art and this was intriguing as the details of the sculptures were amazing. I spent good time and almost I could say my lunch was skipped.
A bit on the Jorge Marin and his sculptures.
Jorge Marin was the youngest of the ten children whose father was an architect and made him passionate about mexican arts. Jorge initially started his career as restorer!
Initially he started with ceramic sculptures and was widely accoladed and later he moved on to Bronze.His innate sense of ornamentation and extraordinary technical skill of shaping volumes, augmented by his genius to combine fantastic realities has allowed him to confuse and astound the viewer.
His artwork in bronze highlights his formal approach to each character, whose presence is a key to element that makes up the represented figure by imposing its axis or column used to measure the composition in order to explore not necessarily symmetrically, but on the contrary, asymmetrically this constant duality that could be understood to govern life itself.
The perception of the sculpture as an existing reality involves an analysis of the ideal-real duality. The perception of this existence as something palpable in the tangible world allows it to occupy a place in space; nevertheless, other categories of realism stand in the way of being able to rate and rank it, since its existence cane be used to copy existing art forms of the same nature itself by using artistic talent, thus approaching more or less perfectionism, by using volumetric description of that reality.
Winged men that seem to be derived from Greek mythology in the description of Anemoi, which represent the lightness of the wind blowing, or through Icarus and Daedalus with their built wins, launched in the air with the desire for fight; human ambition tries to seize this inherent quality that birds possess through a creative dream which supplants the perfection of a flying machine or an airplane for that of a body, in an allegory present in the cap place on the character’s temples or a mast with long beak.
(above was an extract of Rafael Alfonso Perez y Perez)
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