artist referent

Tanya Maluenda Toledo.

Her work is inserted in aesthetic investigation and the creation from the "Orfebrería" as a language linked to antrhopology and sociology, reflexion field and experimentation as sociocultural.

   

I like this artist because she was my workshop teacher during 4 years and is one of my references.

Working at the "Orfebrería" workshop with blowtorch, hammer, and embossing tools on a bronze plate of 2mm  thick, 60cm. lenght and 20cm. width.

The bronze plate is fire in an oven at 200 Celsius degrees, to melt the metal before starting to work.

On a bed of warm pitch it's placed a bronze plate until all its banks are inmerse in the bed. Once inmerse all the bronze plate it's left to get cold.

When the bronze plate is already well held on the bed of pitch warmth it's applied with a blowtorch. Then start hammering the bronze plate, giving it shape with the tools and the hammer.

My job consists of human anatomy, I give human shapes to the metal with cold embossing technique on bronze. It began with faces exercises, as a sketch drawing, bringing the "Orfebrería" to a more sculptural degree.