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Juan Miñarro

Imaginery

Seville

Mariam Mater Domine, 2021

Bronze and nickel

Modelling, wax reproduction, and lost-wax bronze casting

45 x 57 x 39 cm

“Juan Miñarro sculpts a Virgin Mother of Humanity”.

Juan Miñarro is a sculptor of sacred images, that is an imaginero, and to be an imaginero is to be part of that exclusive group of artists who, throughout history, have known and still know how to translate a spiritual and transcendent feeling in the expression of a face or a human gesture: a sweet look, the tension of a torso or a simply a wince. Knowing the complexity of human emotions and faces, and the body’s anatomy is indispensable to an imaginero