One of the most prominent voices of contemporary Mexican sculpture is Jorge Marín, an artist who has worked to blur the division between public and private art. Alas de México, the best-known facility located in Mexico City, gathered international attention after becoming a symbol of freedom, freedom and resistance. Marín has passed a career exploring those topics.
Born the youngest of ten children, a young Marín moved from a small town of Michoacán to Mexico City. He was given a significant freedom to pursue an artistic career, then gaining degrees in graphic design and art art restoration. Once Marín discovered bronze, however, he cemented an interest in the sculpture that would last more than 30 years.
The main figures in Jorge Marin sculpture are human bodies balanced in acrobatic positions. Many have extended the wings and masks of the macabre peaks that remind pest doctors. This balance between the light and dark elements can be partially attributed to the fantastic Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, who Marín quotes between his influences. Despite the nuances of Moody to the sculptures of him, the artist saw them, not as angels or demons, but as extensions of humanity.
Marín spoke about his winged figures in a 2017 interview with Vice: “We do not like a government, we are going to change it, we do not like corruption, we no longer accept it … the wings serve to remind us of the great skill we have to fly No fantasy is so great that we can not see it. ”
The next sale of Morton Auctions will have engraved angel (engraved angel), a bronze sculpture that includes each key piece of Marín style. It represents a curly figure around a polished black sphere. The wings of it spread in a dramatic form ‘V’ behind him. While sculpture looks mysterious with his surprising form and his symmetry, the figure is dyed sadness: it seems to be crying behind his bird mask. This sculpture has a prior estimate of MXN of 160,000 to $ 200,000 (USD 7,470 – $ 9,337).
Because he has made a concerted effort to maintain his work of public art, few of the sculptures of Marín arrive at the auction block. However, there is a greater interest in his work, especially after the sculpture of Alas de México left viral in 2010. His art flew under the auction radar before then, a sculpture of Acrobat sold by USD 3,250 in A Sale of Christie 2009. Many parts of Marín are now regularly $ 10,000 or more on the auction. Split in one hand, for example, sold with Morton auctions in May 2020 for USD 16,246. The price was more than three times the high estimate.
Marín’s most famous works are the democratized sculptures of it that promote freedom. They have appeared all over the world, even in Shanghai, Berlin, Tel Aviv and the Los Angeles area. “Today most people need a first approach to art, we must take it to the streets, do it more playful and accessible,” she told MVT in 2015. Many of her public sculptures are intentionally interactive as a result, staying Incomplete to the viewer. Steps to participate with them.
Marín recently assumed a role of education and defense while he served as ambassador of UNICEF Mexico. Recognized for the efforts of him to support the emotional health of children and adolescents, he continues to do art while supporting and empowering marginalized communities.
The New Year’s Eve Auction, Sculpture and Graphic Work of Morton Auctions will be held on December 3, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. EST. Marín’s work will appear next to more than 350 lots of contemporary Mexican sculpture and fine arts. See the complete catalog in BiDsquare and get more information about Morton Auctions at news section of Auction Daily.
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