Nomada Q : sculpture

The organic sculptures of the artist Federico Gomez link the raw material used in their elaboration to the formation of an identity, whether it is forest residue or fallen trunks. He adopts them as his children and through the form of a tree he narrates in first person what he perceives.

Weaving an experience that he shares visually with other living beings, a gesture that seals his commitment to his natural environment. Dictated in an ecological key, the message travels through the transformation of the landscape where each piece is located.

Inspired by nature and each and every one of the elements that inhabit it, giving it its logic, he perceives each sculpture he makes as a totem. Through which to contemplate the world with a certain calmness and taking the necessary distance.

A CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNEY FROM THE GENESIS OF NATURE.

Reminiscent, except for specific nuances, of cave art, at least in terms of rhythm and expression. That draws on ancestral ethnic art to connect us with our past and show us what our future may be like.

The elaboration of each piece, therefore, involves applying high doses of temperance. Because it has a lot of craftsmanship technique involving a laborious process, where the characteristics of the environment are a major influence on the final result.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Federico Gomez, arbol y raíz como expresión de nuestros origenes

Born in Madrid, he lives in the town of Bustarviejo, where Federico has the appropriate environment surrounded by forests and in the middle of the mountains of Madrid where he works in the calm. Carving specimens of trees whose final result, whether individual works or sculptural ensembles describe a journey back and forth.

Where the roots and identity are a journey where the natural environment is always present. Manifesting itself in each hollow, in each and every one of the silhouettes and the fragility they represent before our eyes.

Since 1986, Canadian artist Calvin Nicholls has created his hyper-realistic sculptures, using materials and tools as simple as a pencil, sheets of paper, a very fine scalpel and some glue.

By the time he has finished a piece, which measures between three feet wide by two meters long in size, each piece takes between four weeks and two years to complete. Despite this laboriousness Calvin has a collection of more than 500 pieces.

They are mainly inspired in nature, more specifically in the fauna that inhabits it, although he also has works that reproduce landscapes. This tendency for the natural has its origin in the direct contact with the natural environment.

Because he lives in a town surrounded by lush forests and landscapes with a high natural value, a relationship that has made him a privileged observer of it and all the elements that form it.

REPRESENTING THE FRAGILITY OF NATURE

After thirty years of perfecting his art form, Calvin has mastered the paper techniques used to create incredibly realistic relief pieces that recreate even the smallest details of the animals he observes daily as if they were origami objects.

READ IT IN ENGLISH: Calvin Nicholls, un zoo de papel contra el cambio climatico

The process begins at the very moment he takes a sophisticated large-format camera in his hands, refined by the delicate sheets of paper. The first step consists of capturing the image, which he then prints as a model for his design. Finally he sculpts the outline on the paper to which he gives volume to finally add the features and gestures that characterize each animal.