Zoomorphic Project

Man has always had a close relationship with the animal world, for reasons of subsistence and survival.

These have always been integral elements of the environment around them. It is not surprising that the first artistic representations are of existing fauna.

In the Upper Paleolithic, about 40,000 years ago, examples of zoomorphic artwork occur that may represent the earliest evidence we have of anthropomorphism. One of the oldest known is an ivory sculpture, the Löwenmensch figurine, Germany, a figurine in the form of a man with the head of a lioness or lion, determined to be about 32,000 years old.

From there, we can see zoomorphism manifested in several ways:

***

The Goat is the first work executed and serves to present what I intend to achieve, which all have the common characteristic of being built with the bones of the animals they represent.

This figure was created when I was working on the set design for Edgar Pêra's film Rio Turvo, where this goat had a small role. The character ends up dying in the film. After his burial, these horns are left on his coffin.

You could say that this sculpture is a kind of ghost of the goat from the film who is here playing the role of his life.