EXODUS

Sight names them, but the hands know them: five hearts of human appearance. It is an incision to prevent the eyes from closing when facing the destruction of virtues. Perpetual Systole has the heart as substantial trigger, a recurrent symbol in his work as a sculptor, thus becoming a constant and efficient icon among the premises of his art, where the dialog between space and structure, scale and material, man and perpetuity is changing the pulse of life, detained so that the viewer may start it.
Space is invaded by these disturbing and enigmatic structures that transform it. They simulate seeds, scattered by the wind, whose nature makes them create a cyclical, logic movement, but which, when reverting the idea remain in perpetual systole. Harvest of hearts that are linked in parallel to each one of us because of their material diversity. In all of them dwell light and shadow; we are root, steel, past and future, and we enter cautiously inside our own nature; they call us to the diastole, to revert the perpetual systole of our time.
San Juan’s work is indebted with the new trends of contemporary art that mixes the exquisite making and the very nature of the material at the service of a unique, simple, but contained form. Unselfishness becomes a witness, since, as a utopian creator, he searches for an-swers not only in organicism and design, but also in the tradition of the craft, of the good practice, using identity as last resort of the species.
Banners of hope; a work not only to be read, but acted. Each heart is a pretext for reflection, and at the same time an installation as a whole, that takes advantage of the polysemic nature of art. The artist, attentive to a world reality, expresses in words the philosophy of each gesture, dismantles the traditional rhetoric to produce a socio-cultural event and introduce it into the «art institution». The visual impact of the sculptures is due to the liberation of the art medium, which grants license and validates the experimentation of new expressive resources. The scale is one of them, which is not used out of a purely esthetic need, but as substantial content of the piece itself. The constant sound, traditional sign of life, and the sensations connected with our emotions project the heart’s symbolical capacity in the iconography of multiple cultures because of their capacity to incarnate the soul, life and the offering.
Dreams… of steel, cutting, cold, tortured; of wood, adrift, organic, fragmented and warm; of stone, solid, impenetrable, invulnerable; of fiber, light, fragile, swift or rooted, profound, torn, virginal. We can all choose which to belong to.

* YAMILÉ PARDO MENÉNDEZ
Visual artist. Professor of San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts.

* EDEL BORDÓN MIRABAL
Visual artist. Professor of San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts.