At a very particular moment in his life, this work is presented as a fundamental pillar to get back on track. Santurio, after a process of more than seven months, 10 tons of steel and 45 meters of work in his tribute to the Exodus of the Eastern People, in the Ayuí of his native Salto, and also after a much-needed creative silence, makes this monumental, simple and at the same time very complex sculpture, in which it combines technical skill, years of evolution in its particular language, mastery of large formats and a lot of sensitivity.
The natural cycle of life, which occurs both in the crops as in people, is summarized and made manifest. The energy that is received, absorbed, transformed, returned, reborn, sprouts.

Espíritu de la naturaleza

Indian ink, red hot metal tools and water on parchment paper. A unique terroir, slightly salty, that gives life to the vineyard that sketches the landscape. Fresh limpid wines embody colors and subtle notes from their vines. The work of art couples with the place´s atmosphere, the architectural space, and attempts a dialogue with the processing of the grape into wine. Playing with the light frees up the precise balance between the ethereal and fragile quality of the paper, and the industrial scenery. The fresh and limpid wines evoke the transparencies and colors that come after each other until they finally melt into one.

The character of this establishment, the landscape, natural and cultivated at the same time in apparent contradiction, suggested me that the artwork to be introduced in such a unique space should share its antagonism, should integrate with it and, at the same time, typify it. The integration with the landscape perceived through the artwork is sought, as well as the transparency, in constant dialogue with the observer and the space; an artwork with size to scale to fit the meaningful location of the establishment to which it belongs.

Granite words and verses

In this scenery, on one side, the resilient obstinacy that entails the farming labor to turn the uncivilized field into productive olive groves—the humanization of the landscape—and, on the other side, the intense, tough work that represents sculpting granite; they come together in a creative alliance, back to the origins of our civilization, recalling the classic antiquity when vine and olive, together with art and thought, set the material and spiritual basis of Western Europe.

EDUARDO OLASCUAGA

When olives and granite evoke eternity

The sculpture work Carlevaro develops at the olive grove, an authentic visual poem expressed in granite words and verses, blends in suggestive and evocative harmony with the surroundings, where the transformative reorganization of the space prompted by agriculture, flirts with suggestion and revelation, with the magic of the arts, embellishing in its way the contemplative spectator that lives and breathes it.

EDUARDO OLASCUAGA