Sculpture :
Cabeza Vainilla
Artist :
Location : #3 Road Landsdowne Station, Richmond
Media : Polyester resin and iron
Javier Marin's sculptures make a profound impression whenever they are exhibited. The gigantic heads of polyester resin and iron appear as if rendered in clay. They are the color of the earth, terracotta, the red clay of the earth, a material with special significance to many cultures. They suggest remnants or fragments of some ancient monument to unknown heroes. The forms look like they were dragged through the streets at some distant time, brutalized and left to rest or be mused upon.
The realistically rendered severed heads retain their dignity and emit as sense of history, suggesting both strength and decay. Duality is everywhere in Marin's heads. They rest precariously on edges, about to roll. They wear the mantle and dress of another time; maybe Conquistadores, Aztecs or Mayas or the faces of Marin's native Mexico, yet all are shaped in the style of Spanish Baroque sculpture.
Javier Marin was born in Uruapan, in the Michoacin region of Mexico. He is one of the foremost Mexican figurative sculptors whose work has been exhibited in Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Milan and Venice.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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Cabeza Vainilla
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Artist :Javier Marin
MexicoLocation : #3 Road Landsdowne Station, Richmond
Media : Polyester resin and iron
Javier Marin's sculptures make a profound impression whenever they are exhibited. The gigantic heads of polyester resin and iron appear as if rendered in clay. They are the color of the earth, terracotta, the red clay of the earth, a material with special significance to many cultures. They suggest remnants or fragments of some ancient monument to unknown heroes. The forms look like they were dragged through the streets at some distant time, brutalized and left to rest or be mused upon.
The realistically rendered severed heads retain their dignity and emit as sense of history, suggesting both strength and decay. Duality is everywhere in Marin's heads. They rest precariously on edges, about to roll. They wear the mantle and dress of another time; maybe Conquistadores, Aztecs or Mayas or the faces of Marin's native Mexico, yet all are shaped in the style of Spanish Baroque sculpture.
Javier Marin was born in Uruapan, in the Michoacin region of Mexico. He is one of the foremost Mexican figurative sculptors whose work has been exhibited in Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Milan and Venice.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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