Jorge Marin
Born in Mexico in 1963, Jorge Marin has enjoyed a remarkable artistic career, with over 150 exhibitions in Latin America, the United States and Europe. His works can be found in many important collections. The sculptor is an eclectic postmodernist who draws as much inspiration from the history of art as from the collective imagination that stems from it. Since the beginning of his career, Jorge Marin has created images as diverse as the techniques he has employed. This taste and technical mastery draw their strength from the artist's initial training; restoring works of art.
Nevertheless, one constant remains: the body, as receptacle of the spirit, which the artist always shows in all its physical splendor. In Marin's work, being is read through the body. Today, the body is seen more as a space than as an object. It is at once the theater of the human battle, its synthesis and its memory.
Man tells the story of humanity's future, and his body is its landscape. Throughout this series of bodies, Jorge Marin places man in a dynamic situation where the only possible balance comes from himself. And, while these bodies triumph by magnifying various acrobatic postures, metaphorically they submit to temptation and expose themselves to the biblical prophecy that would see them fall into this fallen paradise in which we live.
"My artistic proposal reflects my vision and perception of the world, how I interpret it and how I experience it. From there, I have dealt with various themes, but always about the man of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, i.e. my contemporary. You could also say that these are universal issues, such as fatherhood, play, balance, fear, love, hate, etc."
The artist's works
