Rooster

Rufino Mesa’s professional career has been based on artistic creation and education. His sculptural output is based on the link between the past and the present: the world of symbols, archetypes, the sacred character, the basic principles of life, the relationship with nature, to mention just a few. This work is from the exhibition El Gallo de Oro (The Golden Rooster), inspired by the narration “El Gallo de Oro (The Golden Rooster)” by Juan Rulfo on the life of cockfighting. The sculptor’s interest in traditional manifestations owes itself to the wealth of meanings they can have and the possibilities they offer for artistic consideration. Rufino Mesa Vázquez (1948) Sculptor, lecturer, artist and author. He studied Delineation and later graduates in Fine Art at the University of Barcelona (1976); he also studied Art History at the Faculty of Geography and History, in addition to cinema and television at the Theatre Institute in the same city. In 2006 he obtained a doctorate cum laude from the University of Barcelona, with his thesis Anell de pedra (Stone Ring) (1997-2006). He was the Director of the Reus School-Studio of Art from 1980 to 1990, and a lecturer in sculpture at the same school. He created the CEN Comella Nature Sculpture venue, a Mediterranean forest with over one hundred works in permanent dialogue with nature. In his final years in education, he was a lecturer in photography at the School of Art and Design of the Diputació of Tarragona.