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Sculpture, Steel on Metal
Size: 11 W x 21.7 H x 11 D in
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Data sheet 6 x 6 mm square section steel, arc welded, painted with anti-oxidant paint and matt black finish Critical text The sculptures by Anelo 1997 are architectures of spaces and relationships, archetypal forms that tell a story, a memory, a state of mind, which take shape through grids of cubes to be fixed and shared with someone else. If the rock is notoriously a symbol of strength and stability, the artist criticizes this commonplace by building a rock that is empty inside. Outer strength is a mask that hides a deep inner fragility, an armor that protects us from our fears and hides our weaknesses. Often those who have an exaggerated need to show their strength to others or to the detriment of others, hide the greatest insecurity and the lowest self-esteem. We are strong and impassive like an empty rock. The reflection Anelo 1997 confronts us with leads us to go around the sculpture to face its and our inner emptiness, the vulnerability we try to hide, our fragility which, if accepted and faced, can become our greatest strengths. It is not the mass that gives definition and stability to the work, but it is the feeling that becomes a form and occupies an empty space to collide with, to linger on, on which our gazes, feelings and questions bounce.
2022
Steel on Metal
One-of-a-kind Artwork
11 W x 21.7 H x 11 D in
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Anelo1997 is a workshop that designs and manufactures iron sculptures, installations, and architecture. Architectures of pure forms, ferrous structures like diagrams that represent the relationships between men and with space. Archetypal forms, memories that are structured, become fixed in lattices of cubes and lines and continue to project themselves around, in dialogue with the observer. The intertwining of forms tell of encounters, relationships, places and wills. Our stories need lines, welded points and meeting fences to be fixed in space, therefore in time, structuring themselves as a multiplication of shapes that follow one another and stop reproducing only when the meaning is grasped and fixed. Since childhood, we draw lines that run along and off the pages and which in the encounter with a thought, with the Other, close and create a space of relationship where something happens. It’s easy to imagine yourself walking those lines through time and your own memories, stopping in the perfect enclosures where even someone Else has found their meaning in our same time and in our same space. The forms of Anelo criticize and choose to reveal architecture, they follow the need to go back to the origin of things according to a reconstructive criticism. Anelo reaches the zero degree of architecture, modeling the forms in a highly reproductive possibility and maintaining their character of stability, but in a dynamic body. The forms of Anelo continue to move and project themselves around, they change as the point of view changes: stable forms in a flow of transformation.
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