3D objects and Contemporary Sculpture

About me and my work

The central axis of my work is the body as a symbolic-plastic expression. The body is an entity, matter, object carrying meaning. It does not depend on life, it is body even after death, and it is these different stages through which the body transits, that demonstrate the material metamorphosis of the body identity.

Classical Sculpture

It is common that when thinking of sculpture we think of marble, as if it were an inherent relationship; and it is that classical art remains the prevailing parameter of three-dimensional representation, not only for its formal qualities, but also for symbolic reasons. Marble, onyx, alabaster and other materials such as bronze, have been intermittent throughout history, we can describe periods, times or even determine ages and civilizations according to their use. In art, these reiterations with the materials have been taking distance from the perennial ideals of the academy. In my production, I use materials not associated with sculptural creation, but with similar intermittences.

“The Kidnapping of the Sabine Women”

Technology and Art

Thanks to "My Mini Factory" community and the enormous work of "Scan The World" I can access three-dimensional models that represent a pillar for the sculpture, and later modify them using specialized software, questioning the canons and the characteristics under which they were built.

New technologies allow an approach to sculpture as never before, we can modify, multiply, expand, melt, replace, question and create new paradigms about it.

In my production I start with an investigation into the icons of classical sculpture, beauty and the body; its context and creation materials, I also review what concepts and ideals it represents and how they can be formally and materially questioned.

Once the list was made, I go to "Scan The World" for the search for models because of the variety and the high quality of them. I continue with the formal exploration in a variety of 3D software, this part is the most important both in the number of possibilities that can be obtained from the same model, and in the challenge that it represents in the final physical production.

“Augustus”

150 laser cut modules on felt assembled and stitched by hand.

80x50x35cm, 2018.

Currently in Exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum, New Jersey.

“Laocoön and His sons”

324 laser cut layers on felt, assembled and stitched by hand.

76x110x72cm. 2019.

Currently in Exhibition at Clavijero Cultural Center, Michoacán, Mexico.

“The rape of Sabine”

1200 laser cut layers on felt, assembled and stitched by hand.

160x55x110cm, 2019.

Currently in Exhibition at Clavijero Cultural Center, Michoacán, Mexico.

The felt is by far the oldest textile that you can count on. Originally, made of animal hair, felt is a prehistoric material with waterproof qualities, insulating sound and temperature, even from fire; practically indestructible, whose density of uses reaffirms its strength and nobility.

"Homero II"

110 laser cut layers on felt, assembled and stitched by hand.

25x35x25cm, 2018.

Currently in Exhibition at Clavijero Cultural Center, Michoacán, Mexico.

I propose an unsuspected encounter between form and matter, taking up models of other classic sculptures - such as Laocoön or Sabina – that I modify digitally, cut and cut in hundreds of layers of felt and then sew them by hand and later modify them also physically, in some cases to obtain a dissonant form, revealing its own weight by the inevitable gravity that distorts the perfection and solemnity of canonical aesthetics. Models of human figures that range from the most meticulous representation to synthesis of elongated body fragments, fused in strident colors that separate from nineteenth-century readings.

The material intermittency of the body is the axis that governs my exploration, formal assonances that reveal not only nuances of representation but also the material contrasts that make it possible.

For more work and information:

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www.jacoboalonso.mx

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