José Abad Sculptor
Meet the artist.
José Abad was a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel of the Canary Islands. Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.
He has participated in more than three hundred group exhibitions, the first in 1961. The most recent "Forging Space" at the CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; IVAM of Valencia and Museé de Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais, France; Maud and Eduardo Westerdahl, two views of the twentieth century, the CAM of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and "Root Islands: island visions in the vanguard of the Canary Islands" at the Centro de Cultural de CajaCanarias in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Centro de Arte La Regenta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
José Abad Sculptor
The Guanche Menceys of Candelaria.
"Of course, my idea is the body, and the challenge is to achieve, without any neoclassicism, a bronze sculptural proposal with authentic artistic quality."
"The bodies have some consciously made deformations so that they can be seen better from any position."
From this concern we understand the interest that José Abad has for the stone that will act as a pedestal and whose selection process requires the transfer of the sculpture to the quarry.
