Médula by Javier Pérez
Hello to all the lovely creatures out there!
Today I thought we should talk about a sculpture I really love! It is called "Médula" by the artist Javier Pérez.
A little bit about him: He studied Fina Arts at the University of the Basque Country and at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris where he also settled between 1992-1997. He broke the international with his first individual exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, in 1996 and a year later with his first museum exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg.
His works are characterized by a certain amalgamation of different religions, cultures, and school of thoughts. Sculpture, photography, drawing, video and performance are used independently as well as together to create installations where interaction and exploration are essential.
Javier Pérez uses a language full of intense metaphor and strong symbolism. His work contains an intrinsic dialectic, showing how weak can be the boundary between concepts seemingly opposite such as the natural and the cultural, the inside and the outside, life and death. The idea of cyclical flunctuations, circularity, temporality and impermanence are some of the artist's recurring themes.
A similar theme can be found in his work "Médula" as well. A bronze casted, human spine with its beginning and its end, ending in long tree roots. It seems like the spine continues to grow through time and space, with its long roots expanding everywhere.
His works once again is situated in the unsayable, given that its essence is to tell what is not possible to express, as if the words were foreign to it. To me, he has a very interesting take on how he chooses to express himself through his art every time he creates. I do hope you got as interested as I did in his work, I do recommend to check out the rest of his work, maybe I'll do a presentation of him in the future as well so you can have a better understanding of his work!
See you in the next post!
xoxoxo
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