Aviarium
It all started with a small bird perched on a wire, which I wanted to dress in a colorful suit. Soon after, more birds arrived, each one different from the last. They flew through the window of my studio like images in motion, and I began to play with them, trying to capture and transform them into sculptures.
Slowly, the figure of the bird has evolved, taking on new forms to create its own aviary — a unique world of birds and colors that I’ve been imagining with the passion of a sculptor who plays like a child.
This aviary of sculptures that I present is a playful sequence of my recent animalistic work. In this series, however, I’ve focused entirely on the world of birds, imagining them weightless and in flight; solitary, vigilant, and multicolored. Each one is born with an iron soul and a body of hard mortar, covered in the polychromatic plumage of comic paper. It is then that the little bird, or the rooster, or the parrot, reveals itself as a chaotic and colorful mosaic of paper brushstrokes, where characters and myths intertwine, and monsters coexist with invincible heroes.
Opening the wings of a bird to lift it into flight, rendering its inert body weightless, or inventing a hundred colors for a solitary sparrow, has been an enriching experience that confirms sculpture is not only about passion and strength, but also tenderness and imagination.
It all started with a small bird perched on a wire.
