埃米尔·阿尔萨莫拉
ЭМИЛЬ АЛЬЗАМОРА

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source: artodyssey1
Emil Alzamora’s figural sculptures challenge our conceptions of the classical body. At once beautiful and grotesque, his figures writhe sensually in space, seeming to defy gravity as limbs extend and contort beyond their natural limits. Alzamora works primarily in gypsum and bronze, creating unorthodox forms that range from brobdingnagian and life-size to miniature.
For Emil Alzamora (1975-present), art is not simply a profession; it is a way of life. Because his mother, aunt, and grandmother were prolific painters and sculptors, the aesthetic experience was an everyday part of Alzamora’s childhood. “I grew up around a ceramics studio where [my mother and grandmother] made all the things we ate out of. I was always surrounded by an artistic environment. My family instilled a sense of doing it and knowing you can do it and not questioning whether or not it’s a viable way to make a living.”
Alzamora was born in Peru and moved to Boca Grande, a small island off the coast of Florida, at the age of two where he lived with his mother and older brother, Daniel (Alzamora’s father left when he was just five). Frequent family trips to Spain and various cities along the Mediterranean were essential in shaping Alzamora’s artistry, providing him with the opportunity to see works by Michelangelo, Rodin, and Bernini first-hand. Like these three masters, Alzamora’s deftly executed figures and anatomical detail reveal a classical foundation that is counterbalanced by an expressive freedom. “Michelangelo, Rodin, and Bernini really captured something beyond the materials, something beyond the artificiality. They created a portrait of something that had the capacity to move you in some ways the way another human being can move you. It was a haunting illusion of life that drove me to no end to want to capture it, to find out what can be said in that context.”
Alzamora initiated his formal sculptural at Florida State University and honed his talents at the Polich Art Works in Newburgh, New York, a sculptural foundry where he worked after graduating. In 2001, Alzamora left the foundry to practice art full-time and continues to do so at his current home and studio in Beacon, New York.
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source: thesuiteworld
Peruvian sculptor Emil Alzamora enjoys exaggerating and distorting the human form in the name of his beautiful and unique creations. His eye catching works serve as manifestations of the pleasure and pain of the human experience, and often display unusually exaggerated limbs and contorted flesh, in order to communicate psychic trauma.
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source: propzde
Ich bin sicherlich kein Kunstexperte und trotzdem interessiert mich das ganz schon ziemlich. Surrealismus ist eher so ne Sparte für “Andersdenkende” deshalb ist es mir wohl nicht gegeben tiefer über diese Kunstwerke nachzudenken und was Emil Alzamora mit seine Skulpturen sagen will weiß nur der Geier, trotzdem sehen sie allesamt bewundernswert aus.
source: emilalzamora
Emil Alzamora was born in Lima, Peru in 1975. His family moved to Boca Grande, Florida when he was two. He later attended Florida State University where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1998 earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Alzamora harnesses a wide range of materials and techniques to deliver unexpected interpretations of the sculpted human figure. He often distorts, elongates, deconstructs, or encases his forms to reveal an emotional or physical situation, or to tell a story. Alzamora’s keen interest in the physical properties of his materials combined with his hands-on approach allow for the process to reveal and inform at once the aesthetic and the conceptual.
Alzamora started his sculpting career in the Hudson Valley of New York working with Polich Tallix in the fall of 1998. Since his departure from the art foundry in early 2001, he has produced his work full-time and shown regularly throughout the United States and Europe. Alzamora’s works have been exhibited in multiple solo and group shows, many national and international art fairs as well as the United Nations Building, Pepsico World Headquarters, The Queens Museum of Art, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas. His work has been reviewed by publications such as The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The L Magazine, El Diario, Boston Metro News, Juxtapoz, High Fructose, ArteFuse and Cool Hunting. He currently lives and works in Beacon, NY.
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source: davidbsmithgallery
Artist Statement:
The human form is a constant within my work. I often exaggerate or distort it to reveal an emotional or physical situation, or to tell a story. Limitation and potential are as human as the flesh, yet hardly as tangible. In my works I strive to make visible this interaction.
Artist Biography:
Emil Alzamora was born in Lima, Peru 1975, and raised in Boca Grande, Florida. He later attended Florida State University where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1998 earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Alzamora started his sculpting career in the Hudson Valley working with Polich Art Works in the fall of 1998. Since his departure from P.A.W. in early 2001, he has produced his work full-time and shown regularly through- out the United States and Europe. He currently lives and works in Beacon, NY.
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source: flickr
“A forma humana é uma constante no meu trabalho. Costumo exagerá-la ou distorcê-la a fim de revelar uma situação emocional ou física, ou para contar uma história. Limitação e potencial são tão humanos como a carne, ainda que dificilmente tangíveis. Nos meus trabalhos eu me esforço para tornar visível essa interação.”
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source: aquitemconteudo
Emil Alzamora nasceu na cidade de Lima, em 1975, e cresceu em Boca Grande, uma pequena ilha na costa da Florida, EUA. Graduado em artes plásticas na faculdade local, desenvolveu sua técnica trabalhando na oficina de esculturas Polich Art Works, em 1998. No começo dos anos 2000 passou a dedicar-se integralmente à sua produção artística e desde então tem constantemente realizado exposições na Europa e nos Estados Unidos.
As esculturas figurativas de Emil Alzamora sacodem nossas concepções do corpo clássico. Abraçando ao mesmo tempo o belo e o grotesco, suas figuras se contorcem sensualmente no espaço, parecendo desafiar a gravidade. Trabalhando principalmente com gesso e bronze, o artista cria formas não-ortodoxas do corpo humano, estendendo e revirando membros para além dos seus limites naturais. Ao exagerar ou distorcer o ser, o artista conta uma estória conduzida por experiência emocionais e físicas, objetivamente tornar visível a interação entre corpo e alma.
Ao passo que suas obras não escondem uma educação clássica, também revelam sua liberdade expressiva. Em entrevista recente, Alzamora reflete sobre esta dualidade em seu trabalho a partir da influência de mestres da escultura: “Michelangelo, Rodin, e Bernini realmente capturaram algo além dos materiais, algo além da artificialidade [de uma escultura]. Eles criaram um retrato de algo que tinha a capacidade de atingir o espectador em certos aspectos que somente um ser humano seria capaz. Foi a ilusão do assombro da vida que me levou a querer capturá-la de todo jeito, e descobrir o que pode ser dito nesse contexto.”
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source: propzde
Ich bin sicherlich kein Kunstexperte und trotzdem interessiert mich das ganz schon ziemlich. Surrealismus ist eher so ne Sparte für “Andersdenkende” deshalb ist es mir wohl nicht gegeben tiefer über diese Kunstwerke nachzudenken und was Emil Alzamora mit seine Skulpturen sagen will weiß nur der Geier, trotzdem sehen sie allesamt bewundernswert aus.
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source: conexionmoda
Emil Alzamora nació en Lima , Perú 1975, y creció en Boca Grande , Florida. Más tarde asistió a la Universidad Estatal de Florida donde se graduó de Magna Cum Laude en 1998 ganando una licenciatura en Bellas Artes.
“La forma humana es constante en mi trabajo. A menudo exagerada o distorsionada para revelar una situación emocional o física, o contar una historia. Limitación y el potencial son tan humanos como la carne, sin embargo, apenas tan tangible . En mis obras, me esfuerzo por hacer visible esta interacción. ” – Emil Zamora.
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source: mediacafe
Разглеждайки хората сантиметър по сантиметър, всички части от тялото им ни се струват абсолютно нормални. Толкова сме свикнали с външния си вид, че рядко нещо ни прави впечатление. Но когато част от нас бъде трансформирана драстично, така че да предизвиква зрелищно внимание, дали отново бихме се приемали за нормални? За скулптора Емил Амзамора точно тези външни впечатления за човешката обвивка и възможността им да бъде трансформирана е основна тема в творбите му. Той коментира:
„Човешката форма е константна величина в моята работа. Проучвам това, какво всъщност означава да обитаваш едни, често преувеличени или нарушени в различни аспекти форми. Така разкривам една емоционална или физическа ситуация, разказвам история за затруднение или поява. Ограничението и потенциала са изключително човешки качества, но те не се виждат в материалния свят. В моите творби се стремя към това, да направя видимо това взаимодействие.” Всяка скулптура преминава през добре обмислен проект, преди да бъде създадена. Работи изключително изобретателно с гипс, пластмаса и монтажна пяна. Творбите му са уникално опростени, деликатни, но свръхчуствителни. Чрез удължаване на врата, краката или ръцете, одебеляване на стомаха или прибавяне на второ лице, работите на Емил Алзамора се превръщат в крещящи символи на човешките възможности на външния и вътрешния свят. Емил Алзамора е роден през 1975 година в Лима, Перу, но е израстнал е в Бока Гранде, Флорида. През 1998 година завършва с отличие бакалавърска степен по изящни изкуства. В момента живее в Бейкън, Ню Йорк, където създава умопормачителните си човешки обвивки.