My work is more than an act of liberating the soul, I feel and hear deep emotion, almost like a whisper of the intangible. I create shapes and volumes where there the enigma of light emerges along with its shadow becoming a changing compositional element.
Venturing into abstraction, remaining, even for an instant, as an ephemeral reflection, transforming your gaze into an act of love and magic.
What I seek through the metal mesh is the expressiveness of vacuum transforming it into a means of expression. My research is based on the space-light relationship and its projected shadows that become changing compositional elements, on the “ethics and aesthetics” of diversity and on the essentialist search for formal and technical simplicity.
My sculptures are experiences that I have lived; they are part of me, of my soul, where the beholder is the co-creator of the final result of the work. I work with abstraction, both occurrence and creative process being relevant, united partially with chance with which I spontaneously correct and decide through dynamic action.
With the Camino (path) Series, I aim to express the passing of life, with its decisions, entering a world of sensations that create a transformation or evolution to get to know your primal essence, and with the Marañas (entanglement) Series, the pain of death in the dual sense of loss, on the one hand of the loved one, and on the other of oneself.
The É – Panta rei series is the result of a journey along “Trails” with the “Jumbles” of recent years, in which I have chosen to experience an inner transformation made from love and freedom to value the dignity of each individual, feeling that “everything flows, nothing stops” in this vital experience of continuous change.
My early stages in art came about because of a search for expressing emptiness, which led me to experimenting with metal mesh until this became a means of expression, until transforming and considering it sculptural material. I rely on the space-light relationship and on the projected shadows that become changing compositional elements. My ethics are based on essentiality, and my aesthetics on diversity.
My research focuses on transformation as a guiding thread through continuous change where nothing remains the same, energy constantly actively destroying and creating, the unfathomable future and the changes occurring in the world of the one’s spirit when facing reality and the passage of time.
I work using sculptural abstraction and construction, both events and processes being relevant in the creation of my works, united partially with chance, with which I spontaneously correct and decide through dynamic action.
My aim is for my work to be self-explanatory, and for the beholder to feel affected and integrated, establishing a communication with a perceptive game and becoming a co-creator of the result of the final work in order to generate an artistic synergy.
The Camino Series talks about the times when you must make a vital decision and choose which path you want to follow. Every decision entails a world of sensations and experimentations that make you evolve internally. The chosen path is the appropriate one to know your primal essence as I consider that one’s Soul vibrates in the rhythm of love and freedom, and this leads to self-awareness and self-knowledge.
With the Marañas Series, I attempt to allude, through the metal threads, to the times in life when one loses a loved one and the circumstances that arise from that absence, when you do not know what to do, where to go, and you remain crucially suspended there. These are times for self-analysis, loneliness, mourning, sadness, distress.
I have used aluminium and steel as a thread to symbolise a core connection, at any level, be it spiritual, biological, social, etc., evoking Ariadne’s thread, which is the agent connecting the centre of the labyrinth and guiding one from the world of darkness to the world of light.
The É – Panta rei series is the result of a journey along “Trails” with the “Jumbles” of recent years, in which I have chosen to experience an inner transformation made from love and freedom to value the dignity of each individual, feeling that “everything flows, nothing stops” in this vital experience of continuous change.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Fantastick Lab, Valencia, Spain.
2022 The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2022 Art Nordic, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2021 Artist 360º Fair, Madrid.
2020 Santamaca Gallery, Alicante, Spain.
2019 Betwen Trails and Jumble, University Headquarters of the City of Alicante, Miguel Hernández Hall.
2019 Undoing the Jumble II, Casa de Cultura, Castalla, Alicante.
2018 Undoing the Jumble, Casa de Cultura de Sant Joan d´Alacant, Sala Pablo Lau.
2017 Iridescence, ACAS, Elche.
2013 Beginnings, Migas Exhibition Space, Alicante.
Group Exhibitions
2024 A & G Private Bank, Madrid, Spain.
2023 XVII International Virtual Museum Exhibition MundoArti Spring Season.
2023 A & G Private Bank, Madrid, Spain.
2022 ArtQuake Gallery, Monbull Corner, Madrid, Spain.
2021 SCULTO International Fair of Contemporary Sculpture (IV edition), Logroño.
2020 Volta Gallery, Alicante.
2020 These days, Tres por cuatro Gallery, Madrid.
2020 Stories of a Confinement (Online), University Headquarters of the City of Alicante.
2019 Contemporary Collective, Abartium Gallery, Calldetenes, Barcelona.
2018/2017 Natural Stone Sculptures, Levantina-UMH Foundation. Itinerance: Center of Interpretation of marble and wine from Pinoso. Cultural Center Gómez Tortosa de Novelda and Levantina de Novelda Showroom.
2014 10 (Ten) in Porject, Andrés Lambert Arts Center in Jávea, Alicante.
2013 Transits II, House of Culture of Sant Joan d´Alacant.
2013 Transits, Finca la Barberá, Villajoyosa, Alicante.
2011 Reconstructed spaces 01. Frax Foundation, El Albir, Alicante.2011 Exhibition of the IV Contest of Abstract Painting, Casa de la Mediterranía, La Nucía, Alicante.
2011 100% Photography, Rip Room, Altea, Alicante.
Awards
2024 Finalist in Aesthetica Art Price 2024, York, United Kingdom.
2023 Visual Art Open UK & International Artist Award 2023 Longlisted, London.
2023 VAA Profesional Artist Award 2023 Longlisted, London.
2021 Cluster Residency Featured Artist, London
2020 The Silver Prize, Awesome Art Prizes Spring Edition 2020.
2019 Selected in the XXXI International and Multidisciplinary Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Barcelona.
2017 Finalist in the II Stone Sculpture Awards Fundación Levantina-UMH, Novelda, Alicante.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
2010/2014 Graduated in Fine Arts from the Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain.
2007/2009 Master in Expert-Appraiser in Antiquities and Artworks in the Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain.
Publications
2022 https://www.cruzbajo.com/almudenatorro
2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ghrLmfGnA
2020 https://viviendasvolta.com/exposiciones/al-hilo-del-art/
2020 18 Stories of a Confinement, University Headquarters of the City of Alicante, ISBN: 978-121416-7-2
2020.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIsEkC5Z8AA (1:30 – 1:47 min)
Jury
2020 Jury Member of the 53 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
2019 Jury Member of the 52 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
2018 Jury Member of the 51 Painting Contest, Vila de Sant Joan D´Alacant.
