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Otero Monumental Monumental Otero dibujos | maquetas | esculturas OTERO MONUMENTAL Alejandro Otero dibujos |maquetas |esculturas.GaleríaOdalys,Madrid, España.Marzo-abril,2020 OTERO MONUMENTAL 3 MONUMENTAL dibujos | maquetas | esculturas OTERO MONUMENTAL grupoodalys OTERO MONUMENTAL 1 2 OTERO MONUMENTAL www.odalys.com dibujos | maquetas | esculturas OTERO MONUMENTAL 4 OTERO MONUMENTAL Alejandro Otero dibujos | maquetas | esculturas. Galería Odalys, Madrid, España. Febrero - abril, 2020 OTERO MONUMENTAL 5 OTERO MONUMENTAL OTERO MONUMENTAL Introducción Introduction Alejandro Otero (1921-1990), es uno de los Alejandro Otero (1921-1990) is among the creadores contemporáneos más importan- most important and influential contemporary tes e influyentes de la América Latina. A Latin American creators. His participation in través de su participación en el grupo Los Los Disidentes group lead the Venezuelan Disidentes, lideró la vanguardia artística de artistic avant-garde from the 1950s, and con- la Venezuela de la década de los cincuenta, tributed to the development of a continental contribuyendo al desarrollo de un movi- geometric movement. His undeniable con- miento geométrico continental. Sus aportes tribution to international constructivism may innegables al constructivismo internacional, be observed in his pictorial series, entitled se encuentran en su serie pictórica conoci- Los Coloritmos, in which visual dynamism da como Los Coloritmos, donde el dina- is posed in chromatic terms. The consum- mismo visual está planteado en términos mation of his work, however, is housed in cromáticos; pero, la consumación de su Esculturas Cívicas, portentous metal build- obra se halla en sus Esculturas Cívicas, ings that establish dialogue with the wind, portentosas construcciones de metal que light, and surrounding space. His firm artistic establecen un diálogo con el viento, la luz y convictions, supported by lucid and reflexive el espacio circundantes. Sus firmes convic- critical thought, confer surprising internal ciones artísticas, apoyadas en un lúcido y coherence on his prolific production, part of reflexivo pensamiento crítico, confieren una which is presented in the present exposi- asombrosa coherencia interna a su fecunda tion. It encompasses drawings and models producción, parte de la cual presentamos created between 1969 and 1987, which offer en esta exposición. Esta, se haya integrada valuable testimony to Alejandro Otero’s mo- por dibujos y maquetas realizados entre tivations, interests, and creative ambitions, 1969 y 1987, que ofrecen un valioso testi- in the context of his sculptural investigation monio de las motivaciones, intereses y am- and the meaning of the art of his time. His biciones creativas de Alejandro Otero, en el drawings, which were devised as three-di- contexto de su investigación en torno a la mensional artwork projects, actually consti- escultura y al sentido del arte de su tiempo. tute an autonomous and complete artwork in Concebidos como proyectos para trabajos and of themselves, graphic exercises reveal tridimensionales, sus dibujos constituyen astonishing virtuosity and refinement through OTERO MONUMENTAL 7 en realidad obras autónomas y completas his lines, which attest to the artist’s im- en sí mismas, ejercicios gráficos donde el aginative liberty and trust in the renewing manejo de la línea revela un virtuosismo y powers of art, in the face of a world fasci- refinamiento asombrosos, que dan fe de nated by the progress achieved in science la libertad imaginativa del artista, de su and technology. One condition that these confianza en los poderes renovadores del sculptural models share is that they are arte, de cara a un mundo fascinado por los equipped as if from a futuristic dimension, progresos alcanzados en el terreno de la allusive to utopias and the science fiction ciencia y la tecnología. Una condición que fields, to the era of space exploration, comparten sus maquetas para esculturas, and the choreography produced by the dotadas como aquéllos de una dimensión movements of the stars and satellites. It futurista, alusiva al terreno de la utopía y represents a positive and optimistic di- la ficción científicas, a la era de la explo- mension of man’s future and world, which ración espacial, a la coreografía producida is projected in all of his sculptural pro- por el movimiento de astros y satélites. Se duction, achieving its corollary in his Torre trata de una dimensión positiva y optimista Solar (1986). This true giant reaches fifty del porvenir del hombre y de su mundo, meters high, represents the coronation of que se proyectaría a lo largo de toda su his artistic aspirations and demonstrates producción escultórica, alcanzando su that there is no dream capable of resisting corolario en su realización de la Torre Solar the genius and inventive powers of a great (1986), un verdadero gigante de cincuen- creator such as Alejandro Otero. ta metros de altura que representaría la coronación de sus aspiraciones artísticas y la demostración de que no existen sueños que se resistan a los poderes del genio y la invención de un gran creador, como lo fue Alejandro Otero. 8 OTERO MONUMENTAL OTERO MONUMENTAL 9 10 OTERO MONUMENTAL Alejandro Otero Alejandro Otero Dibujos, maquetas y esculturas Drawings, models, and sculptures Adolfo Wilson Adolfo Wilson Pocos artistas como Alejandro Otero son Few artists like Alejandro Otero are capable capaces de ofrecernos una obra tan va- of offering us such varied, versatile, and rich riada, tan versátil, tan rica como la suya, artwork in terms of the diversity of searches en cuanto a diversidad de búsquedas y and proposals, and simultaneously art so planteamientos, y a la vez tan coherente, coherent, so determined by a single expres- tan determinada por una misma voluntad sive desire, which confers its exceptional expresiva, que le confiere su excepcional structural unity. This structural unity passes unidad estructural. Esta unidad estructural through its always creative assimilation, pasa por su asimilación siempre creativa, which could be called cannibalistic1, from diríamos que “antropófaga”1, de las princi- the modern avant-garde principles and inter- pales vanguardias modernas y movimientos national artistic movements of his time, from artísticos internacionales de su tiempo, des- cubism to kinetism, passing through Rus- de el Cubismo hasta el Cinetismo, pasando sian constructivism, Neoplasticism, and new por el Constructivismo ruso, el Neoplasticis- realism, and in particular, the plastic work of mo y el Nuevo Realismo, y en particular del great creators such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo trabajo plástico de grandes creadores como Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder, or Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mon- Jean Tinguely, that Otero draws upon in his drian, Alexander Calder o Jean Tinguely, own personal aesthetic discourse, stitched que Otero vierte en su propio y personal together with a clear guiding theme: the discurso estético, hilvanado por un claro unbreakable need to lend artistic form to the hilo conductor: la inquebrantable necesidad notion of space, in good part via the as- de dar forma artística a la noción de espa- sumption of an abstract, geometric vocabu- cio, en buena parte mediante la asunción lary capable of offering an interpretation and 1. De acuerdo con la formulación téorica elaborada por Oswald 1. In accordance with the theoretical formulation provided by de Andrade en su “Manifiesto Antropófago”, publicado en Re- Oswald de Andrade in his “Manifiesto Antropófago”, published in vista de Antropofagia, Año 1, Nº 1, mayo de 1928, Piratiningá Revista de Antropofagia, Year1, Nº. 1, May of 1928, Piratiningá (San Pablo), Brasil. (San Pablo), Brazil. OTERO MONUMENTAL 11 de un vocabulario de naturaleza abstracta y response to the questions and problems of geométrica, capaz de ofrecer una interpre- his own time: tación y una respuesta a las inquietudes y problemáticas de su propio tiempo: "The passage between painting (as an expression of space through a plane) "El pasaje entre la pintura (como expre- and sculpture (as the meeting of real sión del espacio a través del plano) y la space) was more due to the necessity escultura (como encuentro del espacio of space itself than dynamics (...) In de manera real) fue más por necesidad the case of my sculptures, in those in del espacio mismo, que de dinámica which at first glance could impose their (…) En el caso de mis esculturas, en las technological aspect, technology is que a primera vista puede imponerse highlighted because they are wrapped in su aspecto tecnológico, la técnica, la the intention and meaning of the work. tecnología resaltan porque están en- They allude to technology, and are, in a vueltas en la intención y sentido de las manner of speaking, a consequence of obras. Ellas aluden a la tecnología, son, our technological era —understanding por decirlo así, y en gran parte, conse- it as the great passion that this miracle cuencia de nuestra era tecnológica —si of our time ignites in me, and which has se entiende por esto la gran pasión que and continues to transform everything, en mí despierta ese milagro de nuestro from the physical universe to the tiempo que ha transformado y continúa individual’s moral compass. If this did transformando todo, desde el universo not include little, and limit the poetic físico, hasta el asiento moral del indivi- scope of the artwork, I would say that duo. Si esto no fuera a abarcar poco y the physical transformation of the limitar el alcance poético de la obra de world, inseparable from technological
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