In these bronze sculptures, love is a complex word because more than a word, it is a feeling, an emotion, something that is neither tangible nor palpable, it is something that is simply felt or not.
Love has also been mentioned in countless artistic matters, not only in bronze sculptures, but also in painting, poetry, and literature; it is a concept that is always linked to something that goes into the shadows and into the duality that also signifies experiencing heartbreak.
When you make a bronze sculpture, you put love into it, you give presence to your presence, you deliver the emotions and the feeling is present, the love for art, the time you dedicate to it, it is a way to immerse yourself, to express, feel, and become passionate.
Everything is there captured in the bronze sculptures that I create.
You feel a particular love because this bronze sculpture was part of your essence, it is there and you captured it, you left a legacy.
Here comes the artist observing another artist feeling love for things, picking a flower and caressing it, feeling its temperature, feeling its texture, feeling its shape and its color.
MÍA
This bronze sculpture is a poem to love in the sense of an embrace, a kiss, a penetration, a possession, an endless thirst for the person in front of you.
A perfect duality of love as it possesses complete possession.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a family member, a partner, a child, or those around you.
Loving so much that you feel part of yourself.
It has the masculine duality of tightening, possession, touching, feeling, making everything yours, without limits, and on the other side the feminine, which is the surrender, the trust, the giving, letting go, flowing.
This duality exists in every man and woman, both awake… and we have always played both roles.
Passion
Passion has always been part of my life in terms of doing things, but also passion once I understood love, once I understood how instincts worked, your way of expressing yourself, I realized that it all started with a mouth, a neck, a nose.
A passion that perhaps makes us think of the body, towards the erotic or something more grotesque. Here, passion is a subtle gesture, a glance can be a courtship, a word a compliment, but passion is precisely when the touch begins, that touch and that way of feeling.
When I wanted to capture this piece, I started with a mouth, a neck, a nose, the doubt was whether to put the face or not, if it was all the same, a couple kissing, a couple looking at each other, a couple feeling each other, it had to be something subtle, I wanted triangular and straight finishes so that all the beauty would focus on the slight touch of two chins, that was the idea, I made it in a structure where the most difficult thing with clay was the most complicated.
Passion is one of the bronze sculptures that transmits passion for life and things, passion for doing things, passion for oneself, the passion for that strong bond to what you want, that search, that feeling, and that commitment to fight for what you want also has to do with the couple, with love, this one I have given to patients or friends who fight for some passion, for things or for the couple, no matter how you manifest it, passion is what counts.
Intimate Touch
For me, this is one of the bronze sculptures that express the sometimes physical, chemical, or ethereal approach of one person to another. I wanted to point it out very subtly.
Erotically subtle and at the same time in a mystical way.
For me, hands have always been the most interesting tool to approach others. The touch, the feeling, the caressing, that is something that is very important.
When in some way I feel that the approach with someone can be felt with the smallest millimeter of your skin with theirs, there is an discharge of electricity, an exchange of energy and adrenaline, emotion that is at the same time an approach to the unknown.
Feeling what the universe of that being next to you is like. And that I express in this collection of bronze sculptures.
It means that there are two worlds that come together in one universe, it is a sea that becomes one, a restless sea from which two hands emerge and each hand is in a position where it emerges and turns to look and feel the other, a man’s and a woman’s hand representing the masculine and feminine sides. Perfect symbiosis.
The strength, the energy that your hand contains as it approaches another. The masculine part seeking, feeling, and touching simply very subtly in some hand lobes causes from the female hand to emerge electric discharges represented in rays, in this way an intimate touch is created in this bronze sculpture.
It was interesting how to represent in this particular bronze sculpture two hands in a courtship where they can make the other feel a discharge and at the same time that it was elegant, that it was majestic. I had to look at my hands a lot, the hands of others, the positions, that is the most important thing.
If emotion always wins, your internal emotion is what we must follow, intuition and the way of how to make others feel and make you feel.
It is precisely when you approach and somehow have the perfect touch with a perfect one and you turn to see energetically how that discharge reaches you.
In these bronze sculptures, love is presented strong and overflowing but also subtle. It is this duality of feeling that has fascinated me most in life.
German Arzate, Mexican sculptor.