The painter and sculptor Antonio López Ultima a natural size sculpture of Francisco de Goya who will welcome the visitors of his home house, In the town of Fuendetodos (Zaragoza). It does so in a day of thorough corrections and debates about the final placement of the work, which this Wednesday has had EFE access.
The 89 -year -old artist has arrived at the Art 6, in Arganda del Rey (Madrid), early and soon sitting on a small staircase at the feet of what will be a bronze natural size of the great painter of the late 18 The great Goyesca party of the town, which is celebrated in September.
Two preparatory works for bronze coincide in the workshop: The first is a digital impression made in 3 dlight and almost focused, except for the head of defined features; the second, made of polyurethane, A material as hard as wood will serve to make the wax mold that will be used for the final smelting in bronze.
A Goya of about 190 cm, courtesan dressedwith the hair combed in a ponytail and the look in front, safe and determined.
The head is not well placed -high, too advanced, wonders -, and after much debate, López and sculptor Andrés García Ibáñez, who collaborates with the teacher for years, They choose to remove it and re -assemble with a plasticine base that will allow them to move it slightly until the exact angle, one that shows decision but not superb.
“It is not the old Goya, nor the young Goya, it is the Goya and an artist That he has done an important job, which steps strongly, but is not pedantic, because he is intelligent. A Goya who has already happened important things, which is already deaf. A Goya about 50 years, “López explains.
-In his opinion, “Goya was an intelligent man that did a job for society, as any other worker could do. “
The body of the sculpture is based on the actor and singer August Gonzálezby Music of Monuments, who plays Goya in the Goyescas days of Fuendetodos and who arrives at the Foundry accompanying the mayor of that town, Enrique Salueña, the person who has commissioned López this work.
Salueña is responsible for putting out on the map with its impulse to the house-museum and the celebration of a day in honor of the painter that every year attracts Some 20,000 visitors to a town with 140 registered neighbors and in which only about 70 live.
The conversation revolves where exactly the statue will be placed, at the doors of the home house and welcoming, and the convenience or not to rest in a base. López is clear: without a Peana, “that I step on.”
“The place where it will be is very familiar and elevate it to a base does not correspond to it: it has to be on the ground. He is in his village, at home, how are you going to put a base? “ The artist argues, willing to put a small base to give it greater stability, but burying it so that it is not seen.
The work, which López will be ready in about two months, “Summer will pass in Fuendetodos, where it corresponds.”
