Meet me there by Estela Sàez

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Estela Sàez Vilanova

Estela Sàez makes sculptures that look like jewels, and not the opposite. She changes things that are also ideas from this maternal body that is her town, and then remakes them with an ability and
care that seem almost unhealthy. Her pieces are made from those same material and ideas' own crumbs, previously smashed, precisely in order to loose all references to things, any belonging to a specific material. I would personally define her art as atomized jewellery -almost tortured- that explains, first of all, a very distant place, and then the shape, that supports the idea of modernity linked to nomadism.
The objects proposed are stone or metal towns, primitives, distant, that hide fragile things in a constant process, fugitives. Her own way to make it happen is to say the least, peculiar, given the treatment she makes to the material, its proportions and the impossible reproducibility of each object.

She abuses the noble condition from materials such as gold and silver, and brings them closer to scrap iron or rusty wire. Although she uses expensive raw material, her work does not renounce to the postulates from the "povera" artist. That is at least fascinating. Her atomized filigrees, rusted or laminated do not renounce from the truly value of that nobility, and from their portable jewels function. I wait and wish that Estela never forgets that her work is an small tribute to a place and a land, her pieces can be worn in a body, her objects can be sustained with hands, but in the end, and that is her greatness, her jewels are universal. / Jordi Mitjà. Lladó, December 2012 - January 2013

Opening: Friday 1st April at 19:30h