Born in 1978. Lives and works in Madrid.
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TRAINING
2014: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Complutense University, Madrid
2003: Advanced Technician in Applied Arts for Sculpture, La Palma School of Art and Design, Madrid. 2003
EXHIBITIONS
2023: group show Mother Nature, Design Festival, Madrid (curator Teresa Herrero)
2022: group show Embracing Nature, Galerie du Don, Le Fel.
group show Cloud Shape, DODI, Korean Ceramic Design Ass., Sosodansang Gallery, Seoul (KO) solo show Memory folds, Maternelle and Heredity, Madridsolo show Fossilized temporality, Les Halles de la Fonderie, PCC. Carouge (CH)
Icaro Maïterena creates works that owe as much to geology as to biology. «Metaphors of the vital, of the vibrations that run through the body», his sculptures call out to the hand, palpable because they are felt for a long time, ample even in small format. They seem as much mineral, vegetable as animal, strangely alive, still traces of what was experienced during a process of kneading and reductive cooking that could be described as animistic. (...)
Find the full text in the 2023 exhibition catalog.
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