Afro Mask (V01) Sculpture - Limited Edition of 10

With more than fifty years, artistic creation continues to be, for me, the search for windows open to the fantasy of a place of my own but strange, dreamlike and unreal. I am accompanied by the strong impact of the pop culture of the 80s: comics, cinema, music, illustration, video clips, as well as the cultural and historical imprint of the city in which I grew up, Barcelona. My career as an illustrator for thirty years has fueled my interest in investigating and making use of multiple plastic and narrative languages, always very close to digital tools. And although in the last decade I have been developing various projects of my own, it is since 2020 that I decide to separate myself from my professional field to focus solely on the development of my own projects such as the one that currently occupies me: the creation of three-dimensional works made with wood. A slow process that begins with the creation of the drawing that I then submit to a complex digital technique, to finally cut with laser light the innumerable pieces of wood that I will join to achieve the final effect. Solid woods, in turn, are selected with the design in mind; sanded, polished and prepared for the delicate cutting process. And while it's hard to appreciate the power of these three-dimensional illustrations through photos, I hope your instincts make up for it. How do I make my production? For a year I make a few designs (creation of drawings and digital adaptation). I buy, select and prepare the wood, cut it, assemble the pieces and give them the final finishes. The learning process of the 2022 collection led me to repeat almost all the pieces: I could only finish one piece for each design (except in the African mask collection). My intention for this year is to be able to finish several reproductions of each new design.