ANDALUZ, Eduardo


Tronador 3730, Melipal, 8400 Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina

Tel: 02944 523818
eduandaluz@hotmail.com

www.eduardoandaluz.com

 

CERAMIST

RESUME

 

57x31x30cm-tierras cocidas,óxidos y engobes-2000.

In my works I try to state and develop my deep interest in that field in which philosophy and the holiness and the different cultures and civilisations converge ; where religious and sexual symbols join and come to a kind of cohabitation, creating a series of rituals that become sacred.   The mythology of the world lies within this framework, and there my work is imbued with these images.

My stay in India and other countries where many different religious beliefs, different cultures and mainly with polytheistic religions, was what determined my interest in relative subjects.  From this point I realise that art, as a general view, should always move around sacred world, but the aesthetic reflection also needs rationalism.

With the development of this interest my works do not generally go alone.  I make series or small groups of three, five, seven.... They are sets with unit relations as in language words are united to form a sentence.  To me, creation is a type of ritual :  We take on a specific thesis, we act, we doubt, we contemplate, only to start all over again.

The actual cultural field must keep away from totalitarisms and closed circles. It should act through gentle steps with constant changes.  Cultural matter should create new thoughts.  In this way spectators are able to keep moving from inside, so there is no need to feel tied to a place, nation or exclusive ideology.  All of them obstruct our personal freedom. 

All our differences can not stop our clear conscience that we are all a specie.  Through history the most important aim has been searching into the sense of being.

My environment works are created as an answer to the architecture’s need of completing a wall or area.  .

In these occasions my relationship and opinion interchange with  architects is quite important.  That helps me choosing attributes that will prevail all over the work.  It is my aim that my pieces will go into architecture making a whole unit

Undertaking  commissions of this kind is always a challenge, an adventure which makes me add new elements in the creative process, so different from when I work on a personal sculpture.  Working on them allows me to have access to a big amount of so different peoples eyes, that probably are not close to the art field or are not used to have a look at it.

Actually, most of these commissions are made with an architect study.  I have been collaborating with them for 20 years.