Video: Almost classic beauty. Self-portrait of the artist, created in parts
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The work of contemporary artists and sculptors often has little in common with the works of the great classics, and therefore the feeling is created that for hundreds of years human idea of beauty has changed beyond recognition. But this is far from the case, and an unusual sculptural and photographic project EL HOMBRE QUE SE CREA.
The EL HOMBRE QUE SE CREA (The Man Who Created Himself) project is the joint brainchild of photographer Alejandro Maestre and sculptor Julian Canovas-Yanez. The first is known throughout Spain for its extraordinary views on photography, and the second for the classical manner of works, the style of which originates in ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.
And it is precisely the ancient idea of sculpture and human beauty that these two authors decided to embody in the EL HOMBRE QUE SE CREA project.
EL HOMBRE QUE SE CREA is a series of twenty photographs depicting a man (Julian Chianovas-Janes) creating himself out of emptiness.
In the first photo of the series, you can see only hands smeared with gray clay. And gradually they create a face and a torso, and in the end the entire human body is beautiful and unique.
Relying on classical ideas about sculpture, the duo of Spanish artists also kept in mind the biblical myths, namely, the story of the creation of Adam from clay by God. As the first man emerged from this material, so Julian Chianovas-Janes created himself out of it, thus acting as the Creator.
Julian Chianovas-Janes himself claims that EL HOMBRE QUE SE CREA is a very important project for him, within the framework of which he created not only an unusual piece of art, but also a new self, spiritually reborn during the implementation of this creative idea.
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