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Etablissement créateur et designer PILAR ALDANA_MENDEZ
Apartado Correos 5341
08080 BARCELONA
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Objet
Pièce unique
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Colombian sculptor, has been established in Barcelona, Spain, since 1985. Her forms of expression are the small format and the large-scale sculptures, as well as installations. She works especially with glass, stone, iron and wood.
She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Europe. Solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Glass Art Museum in Alcorcon, Madrid and at Luniverre Gallery in Paris, among others. Contemporary sculpture exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany, at the National Museum of Glass in La Granja, Segovia, Spain, at Espai Vidre Gallery in Barcelona, at the Maddock Gallery in Barcelona, and the recent exhibition at the Coburg Museum in Germany, among others. Some of her works are part of private collections and permanent collections of the museums mentioned above.
She has placed more than 30 monumental sculptures in natural spaces, parks and outdoor museums, among them, the granite sculptures in Sardinia Island-Italy, Burkina Faso, the Sahara Dessert in Mauritania, the Sarmiento Sculpture Park in Cordoba- Argentina, the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Aswan-Egypt, the Chianti Sculpture Park in Siena-Italy, and more recently, at the Kronan Sculpture Park in Lule*-Sweden and at the Andres Sculpture Park in Brookline-USA. Other stone sculptures are placed in parks in Austria, France and Italy. Wood sculptures with glass and metal are found at the Grenzg*nger Sculpture Parks in Germany, Austria and Check Republic.
She received a prize for glass sculpture from the Jutta-Cuny-Franz Memorial Foundation and the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1997, the prizes for monumental sculpture in stone in Atri, Italy in 1996, and in Sardinia Island, Italy in 1995, and a sculpture prize form the government of Catalonia in 1992, among others.
She was selected to represent the Catalan Young Art at The House of Catalonia in Paris and at Blanquerna Cultural Center in Madrid. She was inducted to the Catalonia’s catalog of Ò25 Young ArtistsÓ, edited in 1999. Articles and photos of her work are published in several catalogs and magazines in Europe.
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Technique
Casting - Glass melted in Quartz Moulds * Corning Glass
Sculpture inspired in round African houses and the experience of living inside.
To melt this sculpture I had to build a mould in parts and make a special container to place few blocks of corning glass that melts before dropping into the mould.
Before closing the mould, all the internal surfaces are treated separately to achieve the geometrical form and to obtain the soft texture of the sculpture.
Once melted, the sculpture is polished with hand tools.
Dimensions
25 diam x 15 cm
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