Gwladys Alonzo

– Casa Wabi 2016

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El lenguaje de las paredes – Músicos tradicionales
The project was to break the function/vision barriers we have of these materials. Learn how to separate
the established codes, see beyond the label, create volume, enter 2D space, and confront scales. During
the workshop, the students had two possibilities: to produce soap considering its mold and design or to see it as a mass to agglomerate with other elements and begin to face the sculpting. The students decided everything in their sculptures, made decisions about size, color, understanding what it is to work in space and imagining balance.

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Sin Título (2016) Sosa caústica con pintura y barro

Sin Título (2016)
Sosa caústica con pintura y barro

France

Lives and works in Nuevo León

Gwladys Alonzo (born 1990, France) “melts” materials into a body, creating organic entities whose forms influenced by her daily walk. She encounters different found objects among the landscape during these walks, which she reappropriates in her sculpture. This creates in her sculptures a precarious vulnerability within the struggle that exists as these found materials seek to maintain at all costs their formal integrity.
Alonzo employs common materials classic in sculpture, like metal, wax, concrete, marble, and stone, to create her sculptures using unconventional techniques. Influenced by the use of lead by Richard Serra, and the use of latex by Eva Hesse, Alonzo uses similarly transmutative practices, opting for a gesture that champions size, as well as more complex molding and casting.
As an artist and woman, she is motivated by the desire to break from the stereotypes associated with the predominantly male practice of sculpture, where eminently phallic verbs such as “erect,” “raise,” “train,” and “recover,” are part of the common vocabulary.
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June 2016