Artist of the day, October 2: Aurora Cañero, a Spanish sculptor (#801)

Aurora Cañero (1940) was born in Madrid, Spain and has been working with bronze for more than thirty years. Since 1964, she has taught at the School for Ceramics in La Moncloa, Spain. She is well known throughout Europe, South America and the United States. Cañero is also well respected in the international art community and for the last decade has participated in international art shows such as F.I.A. International in Caracas, Kunst-Rai in Amsterdam, and the Chicago International Art Exposition where Chase Gallery was first introduced to Cañero by Enrique Santana, one of Chase Gallery's most recognized artists.

Working in bronze and using the lost-wax method of casting, Cañero creates poetic and whimsical meditations on the human spirit. Her figures seem to transcend the physical properties of solidified metal and take on a life and emotional character of their own. She creates a balanced and consistent connection between the classic rigor demanded by the modeling of the human figure and the possibilities of current art, which allow daydreaming and play to enter our daily lives. Expressions of peacefulness, silence, love, meditation and humor coexist in her sculptures; they are the essential components of the moments she seeks to immortalize, where it is possible to find fragmented narratives of stories about universes, encounters, passions or the elemental. As indicated by some of their titles, which refer to a sense of movement, music or psychological states such as mediation or introspection, the pieces communicate with the viewer and radiate a sense of a physical presence. As if suffused with a spiritual or psychological presence these potentially human figures are frozen in time.

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1998, Reflexiones sobre los cuerpos celestes I, II, III

2000, Beso II

2000, Soñando estrellas III

2001, Deseo II

2001, Persuasión

2003,  Reflexiones sobre los cuerpos celestes I

2003, INGRAVIDEZ II-II

2003, Sin título I

2003. Reflexiones sobre los cuerpos celestes IV

2004, Do noy disturb

2004, Refugio III

2004, Socorristas de Biarritz III

2005, Canon

2005, Tan lejos tan cerca I

2006, Mujer con flechas

2006, Salomé I

2007, Baño de oro I

2007, Canon II

2007, Deslizarse IV

2007, Navegando juntos X

2007, Reflexiones sobre los cuerpos celestes VII

2008, Penélope

2009,  Estratega

2009, Atlante

2009, Fotógrafo III

2009, Navegando juntos XI

2009, Silencio

2010, Caminante V

2010, Golden eye

2010, Navegando juntos XX

2011, Mare Nostrum II

2012, SOCORRISTAS DE BIARRITZ

2012, SOCORRISTAS DE BIARRITZ

2013, Reflexiones III

2014, Sincronizadas

2016, Salvavidas

2017, Coleccionista de estrellas II

2017, El sonido del silencio

2017, Lo efímero

2018, Melómano