Name: Porta Morta
Brand: Tomàs Barceló
SKU: Porta Morta
Price: 270.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

A carved skull mask with a weathered wood-like finish, featuring a red lace headpiece, mounted on a plain white wall.

Porta Morta

Tomás Barceló

Porta Morta

Wall-mounted sculpture

270,00 €

A skeletal-looking sculpted mask with large circular eyes and elongated teeth. Its surface combines metallic patinas and bone-like tones, while the red ornament crowning it introduces a vivid contrast and evokes an unsettling ritual figure.

Sculpture modeled in fine grog refractory clay and reproduced in resin with fabric. Painted with shellac, chalk paint, acrylics, ferric paint, and varnish.

27 x 22 x 9 cm | 11 x 9 x 4 in

Up to 8 numbered copies. Each copy is a unique reinterpretation of the original design, with completely different finishings, making each one exclusive within the series.

Tomás Barceló's passion for sculpture drives him to explore a wide range of styles and techniques, from classical and archaic sculpture to natural modeling and experimentation with both traditional and contemporary methods. His curiosity leads him to work with plaster carving, assemblage, embossing, and polychromy, combining diverse materials and innovative approaches in his creations.

Barceló not only seeks to preserve the richness of traditional sculptural techniques but also to reinterpret them in a modern context, creating a unique language that reflects both the weight of history and the freshness of constant artistic exploration.

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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.