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Arturo Macias
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Born in: Mexico City and lived in Paris for several years.
Studies: Architecture in the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City. Scholarship by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes to Paris, France.
Exhibitions: Montreal, Canada. Fullerton. Jadite Gallery, Alexie Gallery and Art Alliance Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Guatemala. Misrachi Gallery in Mexico City. Hamburg, Germany. Venice, Padova and Florence, Italy. Madrid, Spain.
Invited to work at Tiffany and Co. For his designs and sculptures made in silver.
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ARTURO MACIAS / SCULPTOR
The sculptural work of this Urupan adopted son participates in a community line of doubtless ancestry: Picasso, Moore, Brancusi, Giacometti, etc. These famous creators got inspiration from the magnificence of Primitive Art.
It is not possible, for example, to understand the Picasso’s revolutionary proposal in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), the celebrated canvas that gave birth to Cubism, without considering the African Art influence.
To mention another remarkable case, the monumental figures and curvilinear contours of the Henri Moore’s sculptures can’t be explained, if one doesn’t take into account the luminous antecedent of the superb Mesoamerican statuary.
And I wonder how many contemporary sculptors have been influenced by the stylized Venus of the Pleolithic or by the feminine figures modelling with a beautiful abstractionist touch of the Cycladic Art (millennia III to II B.C.).
In fact, ARTURO MACIAS belongs to this creators' tradition that nourishes of the fertile dialectics between the Primitive and Modern Arts. Thus, all his sculptural work, in particular the pre-Columbian goddesses and old men series, should be visualized through the admiration and lessons that the Michoacan artist has derived from the always enigmatic Primitive Art and from the most renowned sculptors of the XX century.
One of his favorite topics, the woman’s beauty, reveals his hedonist and playful, joyful and erotic spirit, without which a good portion of the History of Art would not exist. His style is generally figurative, with evident expressionistic influence. Without doubt, this expressive virtue of Macias owes a lot to the rich Christ statuary iconology belonging to the Spanish colonial period, which he knows very well as an art lover and learned collector.
Macias not only transmits artistic beauty through his sculptures, but has been able to materialize in them his ethnologic knowledge, skillfulness, good taste, and pleasure in creation.
Hector Ceballos Garibay, Ph.D. in Sociology (UNAM)
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Pictures
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Art Details
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Amor
silver plated
40 x 20 x 10 cm
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Ixpek
Parota wood
90 x 110 x 30 cm
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Ixpek
Parota wood
90 x 110 x 30 cm
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Cuatlicue Niña
Cumala wood (Peru)
100 x 30 x 25 cm
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