Conference

Creative process: art work
by Antonio Hervás Amezcua

January 27, 2010 at 19:00
Chamber I of the Museum of Fine Arts, Jaén
Paseo de la Estación No. 27

Tránsito
Bronze. Lost wax casting, 1997
Hervás is adapted to the possibilities offered by the various arts, so it's not like his painting, his work carved or engraved. His paintings take us into a lyrical world, a haven of peace, hidden caves and seas to explore. His sculpture has a more rugged, as befits a three-dimensional art. The artist adapts well to the strength or delicacy of the materials. Hervás sculptures juxtapose different elements into an allegory. "Tránsito" brings together various reasons of artistic tradition: an olive branch, a male and one female legs classical roots, born of the branches and little feet. Everything under legendary wings (Hermes, the messenger of the gods?) and a skull (a frequent cause of baroque reflection on the emptiness of human vanity and transience of life) and a golden ball as a metaphor of the world. The combination of human and plant forms suggests a metamorphosis, as a new Daphne, nymph of classical mythology transformed into a laurel to escape Apollo.
In 2003 this sculpture entered the collections of the Museum as a gift of the artist, along with a picture, "Nautilus", also from 1997, which can be seen at this time, temporarily, in the Hall of Fine Arts. The influence of American nature and the Amazon jungle, with which he had come into contact during their trip that year to Brazil, are reflected in it. "Nautilus" open eye as a window to the underwater world, full of algae and illuminated in a special way. As a muralist, Hervás has made several works that can be seen in Gava, Albacete, Viladecans, but also in Jaén, where outdoor stands elmural marble mosaic of the parish of El Salvador (also his bronze bas reliefs in the interior of this church).