Cristian Diez-Sanchez
Cristian Diez-Sanchez. Born in Santiago/Chile, began very young working in a family arts craft business and continued studies on architecture; moved in 1976 to Barcelona/Spain; worked as industrial designer for 30 years mixed with graphic designer/image consultant, home renovation and development of website for tourist apartment. In 2014, looked back to the arts craft workshop and decided to pick up back sculpture. Now at 2022, after these years of working on studies and prototypes, has big plans for the future as his interest in big sculptures for parks, outdoor spaces and public areas where the viewer can interact directly with the work done. The leitmotif is the human figure, the way in which it expresses, the movements and how it relates to the environment, and to the confrontation between him and the environment that ends in violence, repression and cruelty of power against people, repeated cyclically in history. Isolation and loneliness, lack of dialogue and misunderstanding are recurring themes. The concept of Arte Povera linked to the concepts of Minimalism, Brutalism through the expressive violence that the work extracts, and Rationalism as the different stages have been developed to build over them. Other concepts applied to his work are Primitivism and Expressionism. The work moves between the values of decomposition, loneliness and movement in a moment of personal confinement prior Covid. Opens after to new personal ideas and a different vision of work adding values of movement and exercise, to fight against the stagnation in the pandemic. Dancing and training become healing motifs.
