The dream-like world of Spanish duo Las Ánimas, now represented by Marion Friedmann Gallery
RECENT ARTIST ADDITION:
LAS ÁNIMAS
Spanish artist duo, Las Ánimas, Trini Salamanca and Pablo Párraga.
photo: daniel schaefer
Marion Friedmann Gallery is excited to announce the newest addition to ITS artist portfolio:
las ánimas.
We welcome the creative universe of Las Ánimas, with both functional and contemplative artworks made from different mediums that range from lighting, tapestries, furniture to vases, created through a language of minimalist, geometric and iterative patterns.
The artists experiment with different materials, shapes, and textures to develop an iconography of retro-futuristic, ceremonial, and profoundly evocative aesthetics—enigmatic structures that defy functionality and form.
“Objects are very present, they have significance, they can take us to other spaces, make the mind travel”
They conceive their works as TOTEMS: triggers of collective memory, creating bridges to new states of consciousness that encompass references as distant as science fiction, tribal culture, reality distortion, cybernetics, duality, experimental/industrial electronic music, and architectural brutalism—an imagery that connects with elements from their personal environment, reinterpreting and projecting them through an atypical and personal lens.
Their work is created in their own studio, the result of experimentation with materials and the learning and development of new techniques, where their hands always play a fundamental role, imprinting a unique seal on each of their pieces.
TEMPLUM VERITATIS OCCULTAE -a unique sculpture was created with recycled plywood and natural stucco - 70 x 49 x 38 cm
“To create TEMPLUM VERITATIS OCCULTAE we worked with recycled plywood.
The roughness of the raw material and edges began to disappear when we first removed its corners and started the long process of applying stucco (calcium sulphate + bones glue).
In Seville, there is a centuries tradition related to its religious art, which is the goldleaf gilding and polychromy of sacred artworks.
When we got to know the material and the process, we loved the textures that were generated in the very first phase of the process, in a random way with thickening and volumes that emerged layer after layer. It is an enveloping technique, very slow and repetitive, hypnotic and requiring a high level of concentration.”
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