artist from Alicante Charles Lawrence he put his special spear in Flanders three meter statue The height that took place in the Italian town last week fordongianuson the island Sardinia.
Lawrence became one of six invited sculptors to join Pietra Trakit International Sculpture SymposiumBetween 28 July and 5 August, all participants were held for the 29th time. create your own fragment to be permanently installed on the Italian island.
man from Alicante just called spanish Along with four other Italian artists and a Belgian sculptor, three women and three men are working to extract this material, a quality sedimentary stone called, for the stone sculpture symposium that took place in this community. trachyte.
his job is called exoskeleton and other measures such as, 310x60x40 centimeters. “Recently, I have been working hard on the theme of animal exoskeletons, with their geometric and organic shapes, like many animal fossils turned into stone but rendered in a contemporary way,” explains the sculptor.
Lawrence, among 38 yearsco-author with Natalya Ferro statue flying mouthsMonument erected in memory of the victims of Kovid next to Doctor Balmış General Hospital in Alicante, and he is used to working stone no matter how hard it is. However, and despite being “tired”, it was very easy. I didn’t know him because I usually work with Alicante stonelike marble or limestone and this was soft but very compact,” he says, adding that although it was the eleventh sculpture symposium he attended, it was his first time working in Italy.
“One artistic association very good with seven days to sculpt but where there is no competition, there is no prize, and here is the beauty of the business,” he emphasizes from this meeting.
“We sculptors often spend long hours working alone in the workshop, drawing or thinking. When I go out, I can share perspectives with other artists, see new ways of working and techniques, and learn from each other”, thinks Carlos Lorenzo, quitting your job everywhere tempts him “Because I also get a good experience from every site I visit. And I leave with all my love because this newly created work is a part of me.
In this case, the six artifacts will be distributed around the town of Fordongianus, some of which are located. Roman baths from the 1st century, in addition to a spa, in different open-air areas, in front of the public. “This is very gratifying because also when you go to a small townlocal people protect you very muchsee how you make the sculpture, there are a lot of tourist visits, they ask us, we talk to them, “says the sculptor from Alicante, who has decided to stay in the area for a few more days.
Lorenzo, who always attends similar symposiums abroad, in cities in Germany, Belgium, Greece or Turkey, plans to organize a symposium. own stone sculpture activity in the city of Alicante.