“[I see the world as sculpture] says Joaquín Conde. The world experienced as a sculpture in continuous process: the world-sculpture of time.
The silent protagonist is the trace of the temporal discourse marked in the object that Joaquín summons in the communion of the forms that make up his sculptures. Is it not striking that the works are not signed? It is not conspicuous when they are sculpture-world. Art has never been more significant than when it stopped imitating reality and began to behave like it, paraphrasing Vicente Huidobro. The world does not need to be signed by anyone”
Laurence Le Bouhellec
PORTFOLIO
Prêt-à-porter
Polychrome polyurethane foam, wood and metal.
Squeezed Bodies
High temperature ceramic and metal.
Tensions and Temptations
Patinated and rusty concrete and found metals.
Explorations
High-temperature ceramics, wood carving, plaster modeling, casting in polyurethane foam.
Annunciation
Modeling in plaster, concrete and ceramics.
Model studies
High temperature ceramics and modeling in plaster, concrete and stone carving.
Models
Exploration with different materials.
Monuments
Carving in stone, concrete, metal assembly, casting in bronze and light techniques.
Special projects
Fiberglass, plastic resins.
BIO
JOAQUÍN CONDE GARCÍA
CDMX, 1955
Joaquín Conde is a sculptor by trade, currently lives and works in Cholula, Puebla. He is a graduate of the National School of Painting and Sculpture “La Esmeralda” (1975-1980) and completed a Master’s degree with a specialty in Sculpture at the Academy of Plastic Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (1981-1986).
His career has allowed him to generate a body of work that oscillates between figuration and abstraction, between tradition and contemporaneity, as well as the handling and knowledge of different materials and the application of new techniques for experimentation. His main theme is the human figure.