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About Antonio Díaz García
Born in Spain in 1949, Antonio Díaz García is a sculptor who works in iron and whose highly personal conception of art has led him with urgent necessity to give shape to an unexplored cluster of mixed ideas, producing forms out of a vacuum. Accurately portraying the profile of his own emotions, the sculptor explores the hidden paths between matter in order to highlight voids, gaps and empty spaces, inviting the viewer to fill them using their imagination.
A technique that defines the artist's work is the deformation of matter. He gives life to something powerful and exciting, to mysterious works, which tend to reflect their deep passions through a complex set of empty surfaces and elaborate details. With admirable visual eloquence, both his small and large-scale creations are relentless, inescapable and compelling, created using an emphatic and unmistakable method, which do not aspire to be decoded, just intuited.
Antonio’s sculptures can be found in both public areas as well as in private collections and his artworks have been successfully shown worldwide in both personal and collective exhibitions. In 2011, he exhibited monumental pieces in one of the main avenues of Barcelona, the Passeig Lluis Companys, during the WorldArtVision exhibition and also held a solo show, where he exhibited fourteen animated iron contortions, in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence. In 2013, he created another three-meter high powerful artwork for the entrance to the Tuscan town of San Donato in Italy, to coincide with the Chianti Star Festival.
Statements about Antonio Diaz
"Antonio Diaz is the person in charge of making us see the content of the material that we can all see at first, but without his intervention we would not be able to enjoy. […]
He looks like a silken colossus, able to bend iron, amongst caresses and blows that shape. […]
He might seem crude, but he is strong, intense, tough, wild, gentle, and tender, like a great oxymoron where fire and ice embrace, where light and darkness come together."
(Tomás Paredes)
"Antonio Diaz believes that inspiration comes with intense, conscientious, persevering work, and he works long, hard days from dawn to dusk. He trusts his instinct, his work, and competes with himself. While he is making a sculpture, a kind of empathy arises between him and the piece: he talks to it, he cossets it, he fights with it, he twists and contorts it, even if it resists. […] He combines tension and balance until he achieves the final metamorphosis that he wants the piece to undergo."
(José Patsí Canudes)
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