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| Review by Jorge Alberto Giraldo Gaviria, 1998 |
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His insistent search, enviable manual skills and an almost obsessive wish to explore the molding possibilities of his materials, led him to sculpt his first characters in 1977. These works combined a careful study of space, rhythm and balance, and a strange but impressive mixture of abstract outlines and real muscles.
We his friends were his first works: with amazing assuredness he molded our dreams and even captured the struggles within our souls. From that moment on, his work is characterized by a high content of human emotion, where sorrow, anguish and love are felt simply through observation. His series Los Encadenados (The Enchained Ones), now in private collections, deals with strong characters who wish to break free from their atavisms and their pasts; characters who wish to escape the trappings of modernity and the consumer society. When Alejandro began to experiment with materials such as acrylic resins and polyester, he simplified human shapes, gave birth to new textures and filled them with love. It was then that his erotic series Los Enamorados (The Lovers) found its being in passion, and its textures in the folds of sheets. His sculptures are so well received that visitors to his workshop are won over simply by observing his preliminary sketches. Currently his series La Gente de los Parques (People in the Park), with its amazing treatment of bronze, is the subject of a solo exhibition. On a macro scale, this collection could be an alternative art form for the modem city. The public should have the opportunity to view this expression of rhythm and speed, where the virtuality of bicycles and rollerskates astound with their invisible presence. Jorge Alberto Giraldo Gaviria, 1998 |