Andrés Alcántara
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Renowned sculptor Andres Alcantara, who works with stone in a direct carving process reserved for the gifted and great masters, also chooses here the most difficult path - the challenging use of the Burin. This is an engraving technique, the incision of the tool with the same name directly onto the metal plate that serves as the matrix. It is distinguished by the sharpness of the line, and its manipulation requires great skill and mastery of hand.
Andres Alcantara (b. 1960), an awarded and recognized Spanish sculptor, has also made a name for himself as an engraver. One of his works was already distinguished in 2006 at the prestigious Graphic Art Fair, Estampa. The dialogue with primitive art has become the hallmark of his creation and is also present in his graphic work.
The two series of engravings on burin that we present today, in color variants, evoke aspects of Greek mythology: the Maenads (related to the cult of Dionysus and the primal forces of nature) and the Cerberus, guardian of the underworld, present in Dante's Divine Comedy, associated with the underground world. They reflect at the same time the lines and forms of the various realms of nature and its creatures, the fluidity of water and air, the flickering and movement of fire, the irradiation of light, the patterns and vegetalistic veins, scales and feathers. Labyrinths that stage Chaos and Cosmos, a language of poetic synthesis that reveals the artistic mastery of an artist and the full maturity of his expression.
Maria João Fernandes - International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Andrés Alcántara
Additional information
Artist | Andrés Alcántara |
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Color | Brown, Copper, Sepia |
Date | 2014 |
Editor | Centro Português de Serigrafia |
Format | Large |
Image Size (in) | 16.8 x 13.2 in |
Total Size (in) | 29.9 x 22 in |
Orientation | Landscape |
Paper | Canson Black Paper |
Print Run | 30 |
Technique | Intaglio |
Style | Abstract |
Framed | No |