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In the constant pursuit of inner meaning, sculpture as a
method has acted in me as if an apparition. It has been and continues to be an automatic and uncontrolled fact, a form
of possession and something which has involved neither conscience nor will. Its appearance has always been full of a violent outburst of that which its being has received. As an image it has been something spontaneous and immediate that has stemmed from the real and, as an action, something where the first and final decision has consisted in feeling yourself to be the receptacle of a totality.
Sculpture has thus progressively taken shape over the years in the final sensitive experience of everything that has been unknown and hidden to me, and also a manner of uniting thought, feeling and will in an inner unity.
A contradictory state in a constant confused and obscure perception of the real, that is at the same time perhaps somewhat superior to understanding itself. It is considerations of this kind that have made me see art as a form of knowledge and it is this condition which, in my opinion, affords it its revealing nature, making it in turn influential in the reflexive awareness of the present. Art no longer exists in its own right or for its own sake; rather, it belongs to that whose image it is.
Written in Zaragoza, January 1995.
First published in exh. cat., Galería Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, 1995.
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