Gustavo A. DĂaz GonzĂĄlez
Mandamientos de Sangre
Causalidad y Jaula Blood commandments
Causality and Cage
Causality
and Cage
Detail of creator
Detail of the work to entry
Creator’s name:
Gustavo Adolfo Díaz González
Title:
Causalidad y Jaula (Mandamientos de Sangre) Causality and Cage (Blood Commandments)
Age:
40 Type:
sculpture .
Size:
(whole piece) 40cm height / 28cm width 88cm diameter / weight 1,25kg
Disability type:
Spinal cord injury C5/C6 (tetraplegia)
Detail of aplicant Aplicant’s name:
Gustavo Adolfo Díaz González
Relationship to artist: artist himself Address:
Fundación del Lesionado Medular Camino de Valderribas, 115 28038 Madrid. España.
Phone:
91 777 55 44
E-mail:
international@medular.org
Material: raw clay (unbaked), wood, plastic orchid, dry moss, metal cage and acrylic paint
About the work: Time. Transient, perpetual, variable, relative time . . . Its caresses, its scars.
Doomed to disappear, to crumble, little by little, fragile as a memory, subjugated to the metamorphosis of the time.
The head . . . is a glimpse of a The beauty of an instant, the con- moment? It is, perhaps, a feeling? demn of their fugacious. The poetry of transformation, the tran- This art, and a result of causality. sciency and imperfection [wabi-sabi]. An unbaked clay head, without the baptism of fire, to provide longevity, endurance, and life.
Gustavo A. DĂaz GonzĂĄlez
Gustavo A Diaz Gonzalez Blood commandments
Causality and Cage Text & design by: Gustavo A. Dﾃｭaz Gonzﾃ｡lez / photos by: Bﾃ｡rbara Dominguez & Miguel ﾃ］gel Mayo