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The inner sea of Ángela Lergo
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"Nadador" 123x85x10 cms. Barro cocido, cera,
pigmentos y madera |
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The analysis of the meaning of the forms in the sculpture of Ángela
Lergo happens through the examination of the concepts of identity,
reality and space. There is something more in these mud figures,
something more that it equips them with a waxen, unreal aspect, which
takes to raise questions about the ambivalence that any good sculpture
incites: the dichotomy between the being and us, the organization of
the appearance and the surprise of the difference. The precision
imposed in the detail, in each folds and corporal bend, does not make
but accentuate this irreality.
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Nadador pimenton |
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The contemporary man, with his deficiencies and his weaknesses, with
his actions and his intellect, his morals and his ethics, cannot be a
reference. For that reason, art and science, have tried to codify by
fragments an ideal man, a hybrid and essential being, a nonindividual,
reconstructed, who some have called cyborg (cybernetic organism) and
others, simply, have recognized like a modern hermafrodite, technified
and deshumanized.
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Tan lejos como me lleve..." 235x200x30 cms. Barro
cocido, cera, aceite de motor usado y aluminio
It is obvious that the artist gives a lot of importance to the
liquid element. For Lergo, the water is not only water, the
blackness is not merely opacity, nor we can tie it to a contingent
and opportunistic criticism. Something is more there. This
essential fluid, amniotic, fundamental and strange, create a
territory of absence in which the figures float, swim or emerge
from it, bearing a remarcable stigmate of solitude that inevitably
accompanies all being.
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"Salustiano con ojos de estatua" (detalle) 140x60 cms de diámetro.
Barro cocido, cera, aceite de motor usado y bidones industriales |
The modesl of Lergo participate, somehow, to the human condition but
also they extend it, sending to a concept of beauty and nonexistent
perfection in the daily nature. It causes, finally, the paradox of a
fiction based on the concrete appearance of reality. In this "route of
the reality", as has been defined by Josefina Alix, Lergo occupies a
rare and specific territory that belongs neither to"realism" nor of
the "other reality". Perhaps we could include it in the section - if
it existed such a section- of a "Metaphysical transreality",
disquieting and deep. As much as an inner sea.
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"Metales de mi memoria" 155x50x23 cms. Barro
cocido, cera, pigmentos y madera
Thank you to the artist and to Galería Begoña Malone for the the
rights to reproduce the images. “The secret sea of Angela Lergo”
is the English adapted version of “El mar oculto de Ángela Lergo”,
a text that can be found on the site of Galería Begoña Malone:
galeria@bmalone.com
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