'Ungravids'

Almost four years after his last solo exhibition at Moret Art, the sculptor from Paradela returns with “ Ingrávidos ”, his fourth show in our space, in which he presents his most recent work. The author continues his investigation of the interrelationship between space, work and spectator, and in this latest series, his human figures relate to gravity in an abnormal way, adopting positions that are almost unbelievable for the logic of contemplation. This is a new project, of which he says: “I try to remove the gaze - which I must assume is complicit with the laws of physics - from visual comfort and I arrange the volume by forcing that starting point. The works are anchored without associating their rest with either the vertical or the horizontal. The spectator returns their logic but must first relocate it on their own. There is no other objective than to provoke the activity necessary to return things to their place, a process that we can define as an exercise in depth.” Thus, we find human figures, all of them in unusual postures, who sit on the ground or on the wall with the help of metal cables, logs or wooden sticks, and who at first glance produce strangeness and bewilderment in the spectator. A series of characters - some dressed and others without clothes - are presented isolated or grouped in two, and another group is characterized by being linked, always from an individual plane, with vine trunks, and wearing a suit and tie. They are pieces made with the artist's favorite material, wood, in this case chestnut, vine and eucalyptus, and which on the stylistic plane are ascribed to the expressionist figuration so characteristic of De la Vega, in which the marks of the tools can be appreciated, charged with feeling and immediacy.