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(1076) Gema Navarro - Metallic Chimera

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About this artwork

The Lammasu, hybrid creatures that in modern language we could call chimeras, guarded the gates of Assyrian cities, like the great Babylon. At the sight of these imposing winged creatures with the body of a lion and a human head, all impure of heart fell struck down, ensuring peace in the vast territories of the great, powerful Assyrian empire. But the empire fell and the guardians froze in the horror of their helplessness. The few who were not plundered today face the destruction of civil wars and the rejection of idolatry, just like the people they once protected. The arteries of the Tigris and the Euphrates are today watered with conflicts of interest and what once gave life, today sows death. The only chimera that remains there is called peace and the only dream, flying through the skies on the back of an airplane that takes them away from devastation.

About Gema

Shape, volume and space are elements that fascinated me ever since and generated the need to understand their relations. That led me to study arts and get into the field of Sculpture, starting with the analysis and experimentation, inspired by sources such as ancient Egypt and Greece, Julio González or Oteiza. Although I specialized in stone carving in Carrara, Italy, I’m also trained in drawing, painting and design.

Nowadays I find myself in a moment of reinvention through the research of other disciplines such as photography and digital collage, wich seem perfect to me in these isolation moments, to capture the scenes (almost science fiction) that surround us lately. As reference, authors like Escher or Magritte.

I intend to express not just my own perception of the world, but to reflect the human being and circumstances and conflicts of our time, increasingly bizarre and yet artistically interesting.

Best of luck and stay safe, Gema Navarro.

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Gema was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:

Volume 9

Early Civilisations
Plate 3-Babylon and Assyria

Artist:
Gema Navarro
Medium:
Photography.
Dimensions:
A4
Price:
80 EUR