JESUS G. DE LA VEGA

Spanish sculptor born in Torrelavega (Cantabria) on November 10, 1962.

Since he was a child he modeled any soft material that fell into his hands... He always felt the need to model or carve any material that crossed his path.

His childhood influences come from his father who modeled plasticin...

Spanish sculptor born in Torrelavega (Cantabria) on November 10, 1962.

Since he was a child he modeled any soft material that fell into his hands... He always felt the need to model or carve any material that crossed his path.

His childhood influences come from his father who modeled plasticine characters (for which he was fascinated).

At the age of eleven, he presented his first exhibition of sculptures, with no less than seventy-five works in different materials.

He began to have projects abroad at the age of fifteen, where he placed his first bronze work in his hometown.

He began his studies in fine arts at the "San Fernando" Academy (Madrid), but his interest in matter led him to learn sculptural techniques, which was of great interest, in a foundry workshop in Madrid and abandon art school.

His monumental-size works (where the artist feels comfortable due to his attraction to oversize volumes, generating an obsession with the size and importance of volume) began to be sold to individuals and public institutions from a very young age, with what is currently they adorn squares, roundabouts, avenues, gardens and public buildings.

He lived for a year in Los Angeles, California (1991). The scarcity of means available to him was solved by using supermarket packaging cardboard as construction material. From this stage he remembers with special affection the sculpture of a gigantic “Red Telephone” built from packaging for water containers.

On his return to Spain he began to generate series of collections of different thematic origins, such as; Slave Series, Zooology, Meat Delights and the most current Psychoerosion based on current topics related to neuroscience, comics, architecture, even Rock.

With a classical background such as the Renaissance, Italian Futurism, Russian Constructivism, and Expressionism, always present as a trademark in his work, with materials such as steel, concrete, and the colorism of resin.

In his expressionist sculptures, he uses the "Superman" canon, influenced by comics, film and television, sustaining this by his passionate interest, approaching obsession, for metal structures, always trying to prevent them from performing their technical function, always leaving them in sight. That is why the resin, due to its transparency or translucency, is chosen as a complementary material.