Arturo Berned

At the beginning of the nineties, whilst he was in Mexico, he began his creative process in the area of sculpture, an area in which he gives great importance to research into both shapes and materials. Even though he has made some of his pieces out of stainless steel, most of his creations have been made out of weathering steel, a material which creates a film of protective rust when it comes into contact with air. “The piece protects itself. Furthermore, it is a material which, depending on the light, acquires unique colours and hues”. Berned’s polished sculptures are conceived from mathematical laws and exact geometrical lines, forming a conceptually abstract piece which remains faithful to the classic golden section. Berned gives a lot of importance to proportion “(…) are very large but you feel close to them as they are based on anthropomorphic proportions (…). If something doesn’t come close to proportion, it isn’t beautiful. (…) Music, the pyramids, the shell of a snail or the growth of a plant; everything is based on proportion”.  .    A work in which space and light, material and movement converse in a permanent exercise of abstraction. On searching for efficiency through rigor, ambition of simplicity as elegance, art with essential beauty, it conjugates concepts such as balance, stability, precision, light, emptiness, proportion, rhythm, composition, tension, ratio, size, solidity or weight. As an integral part of the exhibition there is an space which has been defined as the “workshop area”, set up as the studio of the artist and which allows his current creative evolution to be appreciated, as the pieces he is working on will be incorporated into this space as he completes them, replacing those which have already been exhibited.