The art objects by Stockholm based Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez are best known for their extraordinary shapes. The artist focuses on designing systems and developing tools and processes for producing products and objects.
L’Ultima Cera by Anton Alvarez
His project exhibited at Milan Design Week 2019 presented a series of 12 bronze elements that at first may seem like frozen creatures. Being exhibited in a 15th-century Catholic church, these art objects weirdly appeared to be quite at place, with their various metal coverings giving them a solemn look.
L’Ultima Cera by Anton Alvarez
While some people claim that these creatures are reminiscent of the underwater world, the others view them as a logical continuation of the Renaissance art which craftily fuses the elements of the past and the futuristic motifs.
Visual Vertigo by Anton Alvarez
Alvarez’s previous exhibitions, for example, Visual Vertigo, presented a whole gamut of colours and otherworldly shapes. With each of the art pieces having its own character, they seem to be able to fit into and adorn any space.
Visual Vertigo by Anton Alvarez
“I can keep on working on a piece forever, but there is a balance where if I keep working, I may erase something I liked,” the artist comments on his own work.
His other exhibition, “Wrapsody,” filled the gallery space with weirdly shaped and coloured pieces of furniture and interior decorations that linger on the line between art and design. All of them are held together by tightly wound thread and glue. For that, he used the Thread Wrapping Machine, which he invented in 2012. Anton Alvarez made sure that his amorphous art objects would tell the story of their making as you scrutinize the colours on it.
The Most Real Thing by Anton Alvarez
Though some critics claim that this kind of art should not be considered serious as it is too whimsical, others assure that he creates true masterpieces with no precedents. As long as this kind of controversy exists around the artist, he may sure not be worried about his work go unnoticed.