Ángel Orensanz

(Laurés, Huesca, 1940)

Untitled

n.d.

cast bronze

19 x 60 x 17 cm

Inv. no. E00072

BBVA Collection Spain



After a long-standing career in France and in England, Orensanz developed a personal visual language that combined imaginative audacity with technical rigour, putting them both to work in series of pieces conceived to add a magical dimension to the human space.

His sculpture wishes to act as memory and also as a form of judgment. It challenges the vision and questions reason in order to give everybody a wake-up call, to cultivate the memory, because the future lies in wait with all the weight that history has deposited over us.

Orensanz’s works humanise nature in pieces that are inserted in the public space in order to give it life, creating an environment in which each element takes on its own value in relation with all other surrounding elements. They call for wide open spaces; for an environment in which his ascending totemic figures full of openings finally take on meaning; this forest of polychrome tubular elements.

In this work in bronze the weight of the material would appear to be lightened. Rather than a solid, heavy sculpture it is actually more delicate and one might almost say fragile. Its form is reminiscent in ways of archaeological bone remnants, as if it were the skeleton of a fish, inviting the beholder to study and analyse it.