Javier Marin Furniture

Javier Marin is a world-famous Mexican artist born in 1962 in Uruapan, Michoacán. He got his education through the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During his 30-year career, he had 270 exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, the United States and a few South American countries. Most of his exhibitions were held in Mexico City’s museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art and National Print Museum; and also, the US museums, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. In 2008, he was awarded the Prize of the Third International Beijing Biennial in Beijing, China. Marín’s artworks demonstrate remarkable knowledge of the human form garnered from years of drawing directly from the figure. The process is an obvious passion for Marín: spikes of bronze are often left exposed to show the paths of molten metal flowing into the cast figure. It is this deliberate coarseness combined with Marín’s elegant classical approach to the figure that gives his sculptures such power and substance. He captures the mystery of Michelangelo, the drama of Rodinl, and the extraordinary dignity of Mayan and Aztec portraiture. The massive bronze nudes of Javier Marín offer a unique blend of Western European and Mexican perspectives while embracing the vitality of Renaissance sculpture.