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L'Escargot d'Hotteterre
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Tomás Barceló

L'Escargot d'Hotteterre

Freestanding sculpture

65,00 €

This mechanical snail, with its red shell and articulated body, is a sculptural reinterpretation of the famous mechanical snails designed by Hotteterre, a character born from the imagination of Francesc Grimalt.  It is an impossible, solemn creature whose slow movement seems to carry fragments of the past and a quiet promise of endurance.

Sculpture modeled in clay, carved plaster, and repurposed objects; reproduced in resin. Painted with shellac, chalk paint, acrylics, and varnish.

7 x 17 x 7 cm | 3 x 7 x 3 in

Unlimited Series

Design open to multiple reproductions, offering an accessible sculpture faithful to the original model, with no limit to the number of copies.

Collection: Insecta Autómata

This collection of mechanical insects evokes relics of a lost world. With an ancestral steampunk style, each piece, assembled with gears and weathered metals, suggests ancient yet futuristic biomechanics, like echoes of a nature reinvented by human hands.

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Tomas Barcelo

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tomás Barceló

Tomás Barceló, a Mallorcan sculptor and disciple of the master J.S. Jassans at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona, blends his passion for archaic sculpture with assemblage and polychromy.

Throughout his life, his boundless curiosity has led him to roles as a teacher, lifeguard, mariachi, bagpiper, film sculptor, and gallery artist, among others. His work is the culmination of his love for form and color, inspired by ancient art in his youth, fantasy and science fiction in his teenage years, and building toys from his childhood.

With each piece, Barceló seeks to restore sculpture to its place as a popular art, accessible and present in every home once again.

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