“It is not a matter of schematising the outer surface of things, but of apprehending the soul of things.”
The sculptor Alberto Bañuelos uses different sized stones or boulders from different places to achieve this form of expression, ensuring they are always porphyry or magmatic materials and, therefore, of great hardness.
Alberto Bañuelos fractures, breaks or splits them; he works, handles, breaks or smashes them just to join them back up together again—or at least parts of them—but always in a different way to their original form and shape, giving rise to mutations or transformations, results that never cease to surprise us when seeing that primitive unit with a fresh set of eyes, see it take another turn and emerge into something so unique and offbeat. Something that, having been a closed form, apparently complete in itself or finished, now remains open and shows or is given an infinite spectrum of possibilities of transformation, change, doubt…
