Hace poco construí una escultura de doce metros para una fábrica en el Estado de México. Hice varias piezas para @georginapoundsgallery que fueron expuestas en @zonamaco .
Armando la pieza grande aprendí cómo manipular piezas de cientos de kilos. Aprendí a coordinar dos grúas para ir posicionando las partes de la escultura mientras yo, desde otra grúa, estoy soldando las piezas.
Cuando tienes una idea para una pieza, hay que desarrollarla en diferentes escalas: la pieza final puede quedar muy diferente al dibujo, maqueta, maqueta constructiva. Mientras estaba en la grúa construyendo la pieza final, tomé decisiones estéticas de la pieza, pensaba en lo interesante que es cómo muchos artistas contemporáneos hacen unos dibujos y mandan a fabricar sus piezas. Siento que se pierden momentos muy creativos durante la producción de la pieza.
El proceso creativo no tiene problemas. El problema financiero suele ser más difícil.
Me gusta colaborar más con @kalach_tax y @mariakalach , son mis artistas favoritos y familia.
Les recomiendo a @raphaellebalme , @pancha.rodillo , Tom Pontone, @ikergrandio y @cutetomatoes .
–Marco Kalach // @markalach
Marco Kalach includes two large scale sculpture from his series “Invisible hunters” in our upcoming exhibition of Kati Horna + her friends.
When Kalach was a child, his father used to read to him a book called “The Invisible Hunters” about the legend of the Miskito people of Nicaragua. It was the tale of three hunters who find a plant named Dar that makes them invisible while they carry it and become visible again once they let it go. As long as they promise to hunt only with sticks and never sell the meat, they can use this magical vine to help them hunt for their people. One day two strangers arrive and buy the meat the hunters got while using the invisibility granted by the Dar, leaving their own people without enough food. As punishment, one day they become invisible forever... but legend has it they can sometimes be heard calling “Dar, Dar, Dar”.
Much like the story, these hunters were very visible in the young artist’s mind. One day (as most childhood fixations are) they were forgotten and became invisible. Many years later, Kalach unconsciously crafted these evocative, slim, tall, steel sculptures that -upon completion- reminded him of the invisible hunters who’d just become visible once more. While looking at them one can faintly hear a whisper “Dar, Dar, Dar...”.
@markalach , thank you for believing in the gallery.
The exhibition opens this Friday March 27.
