John Davies

An extensive retrospective on the sculptor John Davies (Cheshire, 1946), where all his artistic career is rewieved, from his first works inspired by Surrealism and more realist others of the early 1970´s to the pieces the artist is working on at present and therefore will be seen for the first time. With paintings and drawings, the selection includes more than 200 works. Among his most known works we can see his many series of heads made in the eighties and nineties on various scales, from life-size and small items to cyclopean heads of more than 2 meters high. This series reveals how Davies handles the scale and texture devices with technical ease. Despite his work can be related to other contemporary painters and sculptors who deal with the representation of man -Bacon, Freud, Giacometti, Segal, Hanson o in a closer context Antonio López, among others- Davies still has a singular place in the British sculpture because of his personal vision of the human representation.