ART WITH ALL KINDS OF STONES #8@VICTORREYES

Today we are going to learn how to carve stone with the great master José Víctor Reyes González.
He was born in Tenerife one of the Canary Islands. This island faces the Atlantic Coast of Africa with its prominent volcano called Teide.
To our guest today: Maestro Víctor Reyes, his vocation as an artist was born from a young age, but like many of us, his creativity sometimes wakes up late.
Víctor's creative force exploded in the mid-90s. When that happens, one explores and explores what feels best creating and perhaps unconsciously we cling to those images and/or pleasant experiences of our early childhood.
He focused his work as a sculptor on Basalt stone, more specifically on that number of rounded stones that abound on the beaches of Tenerife.
And it could not have been a different material from the one with which he has lived since his early childhood: Las Piedras.
Due to its volcanic origin, the Canary Archipelago is rich in various stones that can be used for quarrying and that have been worked for many years before by the first settlers of these Islands.
This is precisely the material that has most influenced the humanization of the landscape of the Canary Islands.
There you can see stone constructions such as: Los Caminos Reales; like those walls that one sees in the mountains that are like terraces to cultivate.
There are also still traces of the stones they used to wash and those they used to filter the waters in the Islands.
The use of certain stones called Lithophones is also very famous.
With them it is believed that the aborigines produced sounds of different tones for communicative purposes.
It definitely couldn't be any other way: stones are the essential element in the work of Víctor, who considers himself self-taught, because he studied design, but his artistic dimension has been like a personal process of trial and error.
His father dedicated himself to construction and suddenly this is where his interest in modeling and intervening with stones comes from.
Now if we are all going to learn how does he do it?
First he makes sketches of one of his works.
Then he selects the stone that best suits his idea and traces the cuts and gaps that he is going to leave on it.
Then, using simple manual tools, he makes that basalt lose its edges and round it looking for the adaptation and perfection of the circle, which is what characterizes most of his works.
He begins to cut them, to drill them, to carve them until he achieves the shape he had wanted to build.
Then he combines it with other materials such as wood, such as steel to finally deliver a spectacularly polished work that is coveted by collectors from all over the world.
Stones are a material that they have always liked very much because we have already had at least 8 videos with it, I think.
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With his sculptures, Víctor emulates the transformation of natural stone on its way from El Volcán to the coast.
Being works of such exceptional authenticity and quality and on a material as difficult as stone, I hope everyone is massively sharing this video, thank you.
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So far the way in which Reyes contemplates the stone. Part of the perspective is how the stone changes its appearance, for example already when polished.
For some pieces two parts must be glued. For this he uses two-component resin. He sometimes adds other components to the stone.
Light can also be part of a sculpture.
Thanks to:
Jose Victor Reyes Gonzalez: www.victorreyesescultor.com
Thanks to TH-cam Studio for the music:
Birdseye Blues - Chris Haugen
Campfire Song - Chris Haugen
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