Alejandro Vega Beuvrin
Bio
Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1979, the Architect and University professor Alejandro Vega Beuvrin lives and works in Barcelona since 2014. He has been commissioned with four permanent public sculptures in the city of Caracas and has exhibited four times in Paris, occupying the gardens of the Palais Royal during Carrè Latin 2017 and 2018. His work has been successfully auctioned in Caracas (2015) and in New York for the benefit of the Fe y Alegría Foundation (2018). He has been finalist for the sculpture biennial of the Villa Casas Foundation 2018, as well as for the best artistic proposal of the year award by the FAD Awards, received an honorable mention at the 2019 Valencia Biennial and has been invited by Porsche Barcelona to create a sculpture intended to raise funds for the Pediatric Oncology area of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Barcelona. In 2020 was selected through an international public open call to create two large-scale permanent public sculptures in Malta.
Statement
When Kandinsky wrote the book Point and line on the plane, the author defined the plane as: "... the material surface called to receive the content of the work." It gives it the diminutive of PB (base plane) and delimits it on its sides with two horizontal lines and two vertical lines. He examines the composition on the plane, but does not examine it as a compositional element in itself. At no time is the use of the plane considered as an element capable of being manipulated with the same freedom with which we use the point and the line.
My work focuses on the manipulation of the plane as a compositional element, I grant it characteristics freed of condemnation to the rectangularity of its shape and I use its ability to be replicated to generate multiple interactions in space, thus generating sculptural compositions that claim the use of the plane beyond its function as mere support.
