ART by JAVIER AGUILERA
Artist from SPAIN
"Wall Rider sculpture is inspired by two of his great passions the Dirt Jump Riders and Street Art. A cadaverous rider, as a representation of these characters who do not fear death, travels the outskirts soaking the signatures and murals of its walls. The rider ends up completely "tattooed" by these drawings, some real and others taken from the artist's marvelous imagination.”
"Javier Aguilera establishes the manga and anime world as well as the Art Toys as keys in the iconographic and thematic development of his work. Javier Aguilera creates some sculptures that can stand out at first for their technical virtuosity but that contain a wider message than what is apparently offered to us. Criticism, acid and stark, is present along with black humor in much of his work, finding in the contemporary street culture an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Graffiti also provides its own iconography to the work of Javier Aguilera, who considers that some of the most original ideas are found today in street art.
Using the human body as an expressive vehicle in his sculptures, combining the loose finish with the pleasure of meticulousness, which is an important contrast with most of the artists who work with hyperrealist sculpture today. His fascination with anime leads him to create realities composed of particularly surprising characters, who evolve in the same scenarios as others of human appearance. There is an interesting narrative component in many of his sculptures, which connect with the cinematographic language and animation. Also the video game, with its galaxy of freaks, plays an important role in the staging of Aguilera.
As a painter, draftsman and illustrator, the keys that Javier Aguilera uses also refer to his particular universe, a mixture of influences that, as we have seen, endows his imagination with an enormous narrative force, as a paradigm of the greatest adventure, creation."
