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The Sports Circle
Blasco i Canet, Josep2003/2003
Universidad Pública de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
Details
- Title: The Sports Circle
- Creator: Blasco i Canet, Josep
- Creator Lifespan: 1943
- Creator Nationality: Spanish
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Birth Place: Llutxent (Valencia)
- Date: 2003/2003
- Título original: Círculo del deporte
- Physical Dimensions: h650 cm (complete)
- Description: Círculo del deporte (Circle of sport) consists of five modular pieces, each of which is built with an internal frame 5 mm thick with a weight of 1,250 kg. Each unit is 650 cm high and 812 cm in diameter. The sculpture was made by the author at the request of the Rector at the time. It has no signature, marks or transcription, since the author indicates that he does not usually sign his works. The pieces are placed in a circle and painted with the colours of the Olympic rings. They symbolise union, equality and perfection for sport, and their location is in the space that the UPNA has dedicated to sport. We are faced with a series of figurative sculptures, which have been shedding all referential connotations, the human figure only remaining in the perception of the viewer, moving the perceptual ambiguity of reality between what the eye sees and what the mind interprets. These characters are only identified by their colour, equipped with communicative attributes, continents, races, flags, etc. and they keep including sociological behaviour similar to that produced by groups of human beings, establishing relationships with their peers, repeating attitudes and situations to deliver a message that we decode, and we know when we are able to put ourselves in a circle. The ensemble was shown in a solo exhibition at the García Castañón Culture Hall. In 2002, the Public University of Navarre became interested in his work and that same year he developed the model for Círculo del deporte. In the 2004, the sculpture joined the art collection of the Public University of Navarre.
- Descripción: Josep Blasco i Canet nace en 1943 en la localidad valenciana de Llutxent. Formado en Valencia, se licencia en la Facultad de Bellas Artes en la especialidad de escultura. Trasladado a Pamplona en 1967, es en esta capital donde ha desarrollado un importante trabajo como docente. Cabe destacar su labor como director de la Escuela Universitaria de Formación del Profesorado “Huarte de San Juan”, profesor titular de Didáctica de la Expresión Plástica en la Universidad Pública de Navarra, vicedecano de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de dicha Universidad, siendo, además, coordinador de Cultura de esta institución y director de la Sala de Cultura Carlos III. Dedicado a la formación de futuros artistas, Josep Blasco ha desarrollado una variada pero escasa obra pública, muy a pesar de sus admiradores
- Type: Sculpture
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