Manolo Paz

Manolo Paz - The Fish Tank

Technique: Bay blue granite

Artist Biography:

 

Manolo Paz is one of the most prominent sculptors in the art scene. His work, regardless of fashions, aims to turn inert matter into a work of art. Since his beginnings he has worked with industrial materials such as concrete or metal, alternating protagonism in his production with natural elements such as granite or wood. His works transform landscapes from his native Galicia to Japan and are part of the urban landscape of cities like Brussels, Stuttgart or Chicago. Recently the work of Manolo Paz has been exhibited in one of the most emblematic walks of Madrid with his exhibition 'The distance that unites', in the axis that make up the Paseo del Prado and Paseo de Recoletos, with a set of twelve of his works. From the Plaza de Colón to the Paseo del Prado, up to seven museums and exhibition centers are connected by this axis of culture and art, thus becoming the ideal setting for a dialogue with contemporary art by the Galician sculptor for whom nature is the cornerstone of his artistic practice. Manolo Paz lets the materials speak freely; the material rules and always has a chance. His is an inner look, as deep as direct, tense, vibrant. He is not one of those artists who seek mathematical precision, but one of those who prefer to incorporate the accidents, the blurs, the blurred, the marks of life. It does not matter if the form is geometric and modular, it is always assumed porous, impure. In short, it is a matter of distilling the image, of deriving it, measuring the space with the tension of the drawing, to activate it, convinced that there is always more space than we manage to embrace.