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Spain
Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze
Size: 5.2 W x 17.6 H x 3.7 D in
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This small-format work is part of a series made from the sketch of a bronze sculpture with the same title, acquired by the Museo Insular de La Palma (online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =JZ01VtwAVIM, minutes 2:19 - 2:43). It owes its title to a verse of the Catholic prayer Salve Regina also known as La Salve. In Latin it begins like this: Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae. Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, hail […]. This figure is inspired by a carved and polychrome image to wear (18th century) and which, seen without clothing, lacked the usual bell-shaped structure inside (“spinning wheel or candlestick”). Perhaps due to lack of means, the parishioners could not afford a "spinning wheel" and solved the structure of the body with crude pieces of wood assembled together. These rudimentary intricacies, hidden from the eyes of the faithful, have become visible here and elevated to a sculptural category. It does not have articulated arms as corresponds to the old model; however, they are not missing because the spectator can complete them mentally; in this, he participates in the aesthetics of the fragment as a whole, one of the conquests of 20th century sculpture. It was exhibited for the first time in the individual exhibition "Noche de Fe", Stunt Gallery, La Laguna in autumn 2006. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ01VtwAVIM, minutes 2:46 - 3:10.
Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:7
Size:5.2 W x 17.6 H x 3.7 D in
Frame:Not applicable
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Spain.
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Contemporary Spanish sculptor, born on the Canarian Island La Palma (1959). As a sculptor he focuses on a critical review of Spanish sacred art. After exhibiting in Canarian institutions such as Círculo de Bellas Artes ("O vos omnes qvi transitis per viam", 1989), CajaCanarias ("Divino Maniquí", 1991), Municipal Museum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ("Kyrie Eleison") and CICCA de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ("El fracaso de Adán” [The Failure of Adam], 2002), his interest in locating his sculptures in places that might suggest an enriching dialogue from the iconographic point of view leads him to exhibit them in places as diverse as the Collection Museum of reproductions of ancient art at the Free University of Berlin, where his exhibition "Timete Deum" confronts the Greek models of Christian iconography; at the Siegburg Municipal Museum, specializing in medieval sacred art, his exhibition "Kyrie Eleison" (2003) is exhibited at the foot of Mount St. Michael, and at the Lübeck Cathedral, a former Catholic cathedral, now Protestant, the exhibition "Skulpturen im Dom”, composed of sculptures of counter-reformist roots, acquires special significance. Finally there is “EENS” (2005) in the Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca (in front of the Clergy), which is part of the commemoration of the bicentennial of its Plaza Mayor. He is interested in the iconography of Christian art, its roots in the East and the West, its sociocultural influence, as well as its political instrumentalization in the conquest and colonization of the Canary Islands. He dedicated his thesis, articles and his doctoral thesis to this. He studied outstanding images of the island of La Palma, from which he is a native, which later led him to study foreign sculptors such as Lorenzo Mercadante from Brittany, with a work attributed to La Palma. He has published two books: "Miguel, el Arcángel de Dios en Canarias: Aspectos socio-culturales y artísticos" [Miguel, the Archangel of God in the Canary Islands: Socio-cultural and artistic aspects]. Foreword by Víctor Nieto Alcaide. Ed. Aula de Cultura del Excmo. Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Scientific Publications, in the colección Arte e Historia [Art and History collection], nº 19, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1991. "El imaginero Lorenzo Mercadante. Estudio de la obra y claves de su huella en la Virgen de las Nieves de la isla canaria de La Palma" [Imagineer Lorenzo Mercadante.
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