Next Wednesday, May 28, at 7:00 p.m., my exhibition “Small Formats (2000–2025)” will open at Siesta – Gràcia. The exhibition brings together a selection of small-format sculptures created between 2000 and 2025, and will be open until July 12.

 

Opening:

Wednesday, May 28 at 7:00 p.m.

Siesta – Gràcia

Plaza Narcís Oller, 7 – 08006 Barcelona

 

Hours:

Monday through Friday, 4:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturdays 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Image on the poster:

Altar of Ephemeral Dreams

Granadillo wood and cast iron

39 x 11.5 x 13 cm

2012

Small formats (2000–2025)

This exhibition brings together a selection of small-format sculptural constructions, some of which have never been exhibited before, created between 2000 and 2025. These pieces are mainly made of wood, sometimes combined with iron, and emerged as studies, experiments or simply out of the need to continue working with my hands and the material.

Small formats for future works, close at hand…

Each one is an opportunity to explore, to try something new, to follow an impulse.

I understand art as a mental process in which each work I create leads me to the next, generating infinite possibilities and allowing me to exercise my freedom.

These small constructions tell an essential part of my journey through art.

 

Pequeños formatos (2000–2025)

Esta exposición reúne una selección de construcciones escultóricas en pequeño formato, algunas de las cuales nunca llegaron a exponerse, realizadas entre 2000 y 2025. Son piezas hechas principalmente en madera,  combinada a veces con hierro, que surgieron como estudios, ensayos o simplemente por la necesidad de seguir trabajando con las manos y la materia.

Pequeños formatos para obras próximas, cercanas…

Cada una es una oportunidad de explorar, de probar algo nuevo, de seguir un impulso.

Entiendo el arte como un proceso mental en el que cada obra realizada me conduce a la siguiente, generando un sinfín de posibilidades y permitiéndome un ejercicio de libertad.

Estas pequeñas construcciones cuentan una parte esencial de mi recorrido por el arte.

Elevaciones

The first pieces in the Elevations series date back to 2019. They are sculptures that emerge from the ground, usually with a base that allows them to rotate. In 2021, I produced the first suspended elevation.

When I design a new sculpture, I surround myself with the elements I have previously created to build it. I cut semi-curved pieces of various dimensions and begin to compose and join them together, starting with the first one, looking for expansive or more closed and elliptical shapes.

For me, these pieces have a high energy component in themselves, as I paint, sand and polish them to achieve the right textures; this means that my hands touch and press them numerous times in that final polishing stage, so I establish a very strong relationship with the material.

Las primeras piezas de la serie Elevaciones se remontan al año 2019. Son esculturas que surgen del suelo, normalmente con una base que permite su giro. En 2021 produje la primera elevación suspendida.

Cuando proyecto una nueva escultura, me rodeo de los elementos que he elaborado previamente para construirla. Corto piezas semicurvas de diversas dimensiones y empiezo a componer y unir desde la primera, buscando formas expansivas o más cerradas y elípticas.

Para mí, son piezas que poseen un alto componente energético en sí mismas, ya que las pinto, lijo y bruño para conseguir las texturas adecuadas; esto implica que mis manos las tocan y presionan numerosas veces en esa etapa final de bruñido, por lo que establezco una relación muy fuerte con el material.

Comprehensive monitoring of my work

(Since summer 2024)

Pablo Leonardo Martínez, a selection of sculptures from recent years.

This book will be published in print soon, so this PDF is presented in double-page format to be as faithful as possible to the final version.

Fotos de la producción de las esculturas

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