Angel Lara
Turmalina AzulInquire about availability
- Year
- 2016
- Technique
- Resin
- Dimensions
- 77 × 43 × 27 cm
- Status
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- Palette
- turquoise blue, ice blue, cerulean blue, iron rust, umber brown
- Brushwork
- Cast in polished translucent resin with internal inclusions and fractures, mounted on a rusted iron base.
Curatorial analysis
Curatorial analysis
A mass of translucent resin holds light rather than reflecting it, turning female anatomy into an organic prism. The torso dispenses with limbs and head to focus all its energy on the cadence of the silhouette, where the curve of the hip and the slight torsion of the belly evoke a classical sensuality reinterpreted through a decidedly contemporary material. The substance is neither uniform nor inert: its core harbors controlled fractures, veils, and shifting densities that emulate the internal flaws of a natural gemstone, substantiating the mineral invocation of the title.
Light operates here as a constructive element rather than an external factor. Passing through the rounded volumes of the thighs and chest, the sky-blue hue intensifies in areas of greater thickness and dissolves into near-transparent edges where air seems to absorb matter. This optical modulation generates a visual paradox, for the body appears to float in aquatic weightlessness, suspended in a fluidity that was liquid before coagulating into vitreous hardness. The polished surface reflects the immediate environment while revealing the petrified turbulence within, establishing a simultaneity between skin and interior.
The pedestal of rusted iron with coarse rivets introduces a decisive counterpoint to the reading of the piece. By placing the sculpture upon this corroded block, a burden of earthly weight and temporal degradation is activated, confronting the crystalline purity of the figure. While the resin embodies a synthetic, pristine quality resistant to the passage of time, the metal exhibits the rust typical of atmospheric exposure. In that friction between the optical lightness of the polymer and the rough density of the pedestal, the figure remains anchored to an inescapable physical dimension, where the body is not merely the contemplation of idealized beauty, but an entity held in tension between apparent fragility and mineral endurance.
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- PoásInquire about availabilityAngel Lara · 2017
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- HieloSoldAngel Lara · 2016
- PasiónSoldAngel Lara · 2016
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