{"id":2762,"date":"2019-10-04T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:43:59","slug":"gustavo-velez-sculptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/gustavo-velez-sculptor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo V\u00e8lez , sculptor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andr\u00e9 Gide\u2019s opinion that sculptors \u201cthink in marble\u201d<\/strong> could certainly become Gustavo V\u00e9lez\u2019s motto. In the city of Pietrasanta, Tuscany, the Colombian sculptor, born in 1975, has found a unique creative opportunity to learn how to carve marble, to develop his skills, and to make his own marble sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In V\u00e9lez\u2019s art, the unique, fascinating stone expresses at once the opposition and union of strength and fragility. And it is precisely in Pietrasanta that he has fine-tuned his craft to a point where can fully express his creative thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially a figurative artist, in more recent years V\u00e9lez has increasingly moved towards abstraction<\/strong>. Starting from the approach of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, for whom \u201carchitecture is inhabited sculpture\u201d, the Colombian artist builds his works using bold lines placed in an infinite space. These lines, visually soft and sinuous, but conceptually strong, create shapes that stand in the open air and on the open spaces of nature, to paraphrase Joan Mir\u00f2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gustavo V\u00e9lez, 2013, white carrara marble, mt 2,60 x 1,60<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Put differently, V\u00e9lez goes beyond geometry and its relationships to virtually join the sky and the earth. While marble generates a sense of loftiness and refinement, bronze and steel are more in contact with the surrounding environment. Light is indeed a variable factor that contributes to changing the viewer\u2019s perception of his works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His sculptures generate vital, dynamic harmonies<\/strong>, despite the fact that the artist does not intervene in, or on, the indoor or outdoor space where they are installed. Distinguishing features of the environment, multiple states of mind, psychological enigmas, pure evolving geometries, and alternate combinations of feelings: these are all sources of inspiration for V\u00e9lez, who translates them into abstract creations that help us investigate universal paradigms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their tension towards a free and boundless form, V\u00e9lez\u2019s sculptures in marble<\/strong>, bronze and steel allow him to create a synergic dialogue by means of abstract concepts that find their shape beyond the infinite, entering an unexplored universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andr\u00e9 Gide\u2019s opinion that sculptors \u201cthink in marble\u201d could certainly become Gustavo V\u00e9lez\u2019s motto. In the city of Pietrasanta, Tuscany, the Colombian sculptor, born in 1975, has found a unique creative opportunity to learn how to carve marble, to develop his skills, and to make his own marble sculptures. In V\u00e9lez\u2019s art, the unique, fascinating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,224],"tags":[42,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-2762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-en","8":"category-sculptors-en","9":"tag-gustavo-velez","10":"tag-pietrasanta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstylemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}