Antonio Lopez Reche
Dreaming Horse
Bronze edition (display copy in resin) £5,400
Big Bully
Bronze edition (display copy resin) £9,500 including plinth, £6,500 excluding plinth
To make a resin, bronze powder and epoxy resin are blended and applied to the interior of a mould of the sculpture. The mould is then filled with a blend of resin and metal powders which are left to set; later the casting is removed.
My work is an eclectic approach to the language of sculpture. For the past fifteen years, I have been experimenting with figurative and non figurative work.
My work has been inspired by western tradition, often relating to Mediterranean mythology and folk tales, in which my interest in expressive tool marks and spontaneous modelling with materials such as clay, wax or plaster, translates into bronze, in an attempt to capture the immediacy and rawness of the material.
I also have a deep interest in a more conceptual line of work in which, still using mostly bronze casting, the repeated reproduction of an object, sometimes created by me, sometimes snatched from our immediate daily life, creates a new form. Although these pieces start with the fascination with the chosen object, soon the repetition and organisation of these elements creates a new dimension far from the original object.
