Jesús Curiá

One of the biggest challenges for a sculptor is achieving creative maturity with a distinctive personal style. The style of Spanish artist Jesús Curiá enjoys an international rather than a local profile. This allows us to appreciate his works, which addresses social and globalizing aspects appropriate to a modern society, such as the mass media which surrounds and characterizes our current world.

Curiá's artwork is difficult to label. While his cultural background is clearly a western European one, his preferences and intuitions are fueled by non-western cultures. The more primitive they are the more appealing they become to the artist, and their originality is evident in his interpretation.

The artist's interest in other cultures has led him to the conclusion that all the races will likely merge into one. This idea, despite large migratory movements, is merely an ideal, and greatly fuels his artwork.

In many of his works, we find traces of Egyptian sculpture as well as those magnificent African sculptures of the ancient kingdoms of Benin and Ife. It is a style free from second interpretations that are presented as false mysticisms. His sculptures, all figurative, are endowed with a great technical purity, and are totally absent of any baroque connotation.

Jesús Curiá’s sculptures are archetypes. They do not depict individual people; they are a tribute to the human being itself, to its essential ideals and concerns, to what unites us all. Human beings who live in a community feel a deep need to not only recognize themselves but to also recognize others. That is the essence of humanity.

Jesús Curiá is currently exhibiting his work worldwide and his sculptures can be found in important collections. The primary reason for his success lies in the fact that his sculptures are "classic", in the sense that they transcend time and space. It is significant that Jesús Curiá's works are appreciated by very different cultures. His faces, sometimes with African, Asian or Western features, radiate serenity, dignity, poise… but at the same time they pose questions, communicate with us, express emotion... In his quest for global beauty, Curiá succeeds to capturing something as elusive as the spirituality that emanates from all human beings.