Raúl Lorenzo
serie: Derrame XI
2023
Steel, copper, aluminum, brass
66 x 50 cm
My recent interest in metal is part of a conceptual
framework traversed by the poetics of mystery and cultural
objects. These reflections have led to a more physical
dialogue between the materials, in which the material
process prints the logical itself in the work. The support,
which can mimic the filling, is deformed by the action of
the tools. These interventions do not only alter the surface,
but rather expose a dialectic between control and accident,
between violence and gesture. Metallic materials from
diverse origins—linked to everyday life—are cast together
with the work, hybridizing its identity with that of the work.
It continues to surprise me, when working with these hard
materials, how they become ductile and adherent for a
second.