Betty Everett said it’s in his kiss, but Neural Networks and people agree, it’s in his/her kisser.
Faces are how we identify people, and it’s how we read their emotions, their moods.
I saw two artists who use faces to do the same thing, convey states of human emotion.
First Samuel Salcedo in Barcelona. His characteristic face sculptures show extreme emotions.
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Since 1998 he exhibits in galleries and participates in international Art Fairs with 3 Punts Galeria. Since then he has had numerous exhibitions in 3 Punts Galeria, Galerie Robert Drees from Hannover (Germany), Osnova Gallery in Moscow, Soda Gallery in Istanbul or Can Sisteré Center for Contemporary Art, among others.
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Salcedo’s sculptural work is characterized by technical excellence. One can see his mastery in the diversity of the materials he uses (resin, wood, aluminum) and which integrate painting, the discipline with which he began his career. His sculptures and characters always question the viewer with their subtle irony and vulnerability.
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Francisco Esnayra works consists mainly of sculptures that seek to externalize, through plastic creation, the feelings contained in people, expressing different emotion faces in an artistic way.
Esnayra has developed throughout his production, multiple self-portraits that explore the emotions evidenced in the anatomical gesticulation of the face; Has also produced different visual metaphors with the representation of everyday objects that seek to formulate new strategies of introspective reflection from the three-dimensional format. His work raises the question of the interconnection between mind, emotions and body in an imaginary way: his concern is to discover in a formal way the implications of the feeling of pain that acts on the body; Their practice is a way of making conscious different emotional states.
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Whew, say that three times fast! In other words he’s doing the same thing as Salcedo, but through his own vision.
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He is one of Mexico’s most significant emerging artists. Born in Chihuahua, Esnayra studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua and the Universidad Autónoma de México. In 2013 he also completed the sculpture workshop at the Washington University Center in Rome. Drawing on classical sculpture, Freudian psychoanalysis and Messerschmidt’s character heads, along with commonplace objects such as teddy bears or pill capsules, Esnayra produces compelling portrayals of human emotion, rich in texture and colour. His figures address the subjectivity with which we relate to others, the role of medicines in our mental and physical well being or the basic human need for introspection.
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