Again, Fernando Suárez at Teknon
21.10.2021
A collaborative exhibition at Teknon Medical Centre
Teknon Medical Centre is a place that is committed to art as a therapeutic value and, in many cases, a complement to conventional medicine. For this reason, in 1995, a year after the opening of the centre, Teknon launched its own cultural programme, "Ars et Scientia", through which more than 80 artists, both emerging and established at an international level, have already exhibited their work. Thanks to this cultural programme, "Ars et Scientia", from 9 October 2021 to 5 February 2022, the exhibition "AGAIN" by the artist Fernando Suárez will be on display in the hall of Teknon.
Fernando Suárez is an enormously versatile sculptor. His training, his mastery of the medium and his tireless creative capacity allow him to follow very different but also complementary paths. He works mainly with iron and bronze, but the multiple resources he uses to diversify his production are surprising. He experiments with materials such as resin, plays with the multiplying effect of mirrors and exploits all the options offered by spatial occupation, with a singular obsession for movement and weightlessness.
He is particularly interested in the human being, and is capable of delving into both his psychic intricacies and the most varied formal solutions. He uses a model of a strong, sturdy man, with a muscular build, stretched to the most unsuspected limits. An active, restless man, subjected to tests to be overcome; a man who jumps, climbs, runs, fights or swings, in a continuous game of balance. Fernando Suárez has an unusual mastery of capturing eurythmy, gesture, the right moment, and freezing an image while studying its dynamic potential. His is an organic man, but his muscles are made of metal sheets and rods, and therefore he is also a hybrid being, a machine man, often immersed in suggestive futuristic environments. Moreover, he studies the individual as a creator, as an inventor of vehicles and gadgets or as a being who transforms his environment. This results in bridges, architectures and singular buildings, from exotic palafittes that evoke distant environments, to blocks of flats under construction or areas destroyed by fire, urban agglomerations, or the ironic traffic chaos shown in an absurd and never-ending circle. A whole constructive and structural aspect that can sometimes very complex, but allows him to explore new and rich plastic possibilities.
Starting from a concept based on purely realistic principles that are rooted in a solid academic training, Fernando Suárez disintegrates the forms towards a neo-figurative expressionism. A meticulous drawing that offers a disintegrating vision of the object, which gives his works a strength balanced by the structural solidity of the compositional schemes.
Movement is present as a constant theme in each and every one of the works that make up the exhibition, conferring a fundamental dynamism to the show. The objects wander around the room as if it were the perfect continent for a fantastic scenography, where beings endowed with an unusual futuristic magic wander freely through a foreign time and space. The interaction of materials as diverse as iron and bronze with different types of resins constitutes a contribution to the constructive methodology of contemporary sculptural processes that should also be highlighted.
