Jorge Marín
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Jorge Marín
Was born in UruapanUruapan
Uruapan is a city and municipality in the west-central part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The city is the municipal seat of the municipality...
, Michoacan
Michoacán
Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...
, Mexico
Mexico
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, Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s. Bronze has been his preferred material for the last ten years.His work often depicts horses, centaurs, garudas, children, madonnas, acrobats, along with elements such as spheres, masks, arrows, boats and scales. These concepts are consistent with recurring themes such as reflection and balance.
Biography
The youngest of a family of ten brothers and sisters (which includes Javier Marin, colleague and brother), Jorge Marin inherited his passion for the fine arts from his father, a well-knownarchitect.He left Uruapan, Michoacan to live in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, when he was seven years old. Marin recalls his early years in the town of Uruapanas something like living in “Macondo” the mystical town in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude
Academic Background
- 1980 Graphic Design, ENAP-UNAM, Mexico City.
- 1982 Fine Arts Restoration, Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía “Manuel Castillo Negrete” INAH-SEP, Mexico City.
Art Work
His work focuses mainly on the human figure as a metaphor of its own experiences. His style has a strong foundation in the integration of baroque dramatic artwith a powerful sensuality and a subtle sense of the perverse. Uncomplicated and easy to read, hiswork is accessible to wide audiences.Jorge Marin´s work in sculpture is a compendium of the vital impulses of the human being and his body, which Marin interprets as the landscape of man’s own existence.
Interesting Facts
- In 2006, Jorge Marin’s sculptures served as the inspiration for a dance and acrobatics production munDOSmarinOS,performed by the contemporary dance company Humanicorp
- Since September 7, 2010, one of the most representative exhibition of the work of this sculptor, is located in Paseo de la Reforma, on the ridge opposite the Museum of Anthropology, entitled "The Wings of the City. " Consists of 13 monumental works in bronze. This collection of sculptures, are exhibited for the first time in a public forum.