GUSTAVO ACEVES LIFET

GUSTAVO ACEVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDEE - ART . . Gustavo Aceves will present his project "Lapidarium" during the XIIth Florence Biennale. Aceves’s horses do not have manes and legs; they are not imbued with a victorious equestrian aesthetic. The Lapidarium horses attain their nobility and solemnity from the dazzling sculptural movement of their heads and their massive torsos, ensuring that Aceves’s apodal horses are not static. It is obvious that they have been captured in the act of moving forward, sometimes proudly, sometimes nervously and other times wearily, with their heads drooped over their shoulders. But they are always alive and on the move. There is a pitious look in their eyes, an awareness of the burden of pain they carry, a suffering that actually transfigures their being, altering, corroding, withering their body, but never stifling out their desire for life and redemption. . . #gustavoaceves #lapidarium #florencebiennale19 #florencebiennale #florence #contemporaryart #artexhibition #sculptures #horses