Manuel Lozano
1979, León, Guanajuato, México

Manuel Lozano's work revolves around the dialogues and frictions between the natural and the artificial, the analog and the digital, understood as active fields of tension. Through the selection of figurative symbols, his practice proposes a material reading of cultural transformations and their systems of signs.

Landscape appears in his work as a critical device where organic processes and technological logics, wear and simulation, permanence and obsolescence coexist. From this perspective, Lozano approaches sculpture as an expanded space, capable of translating some of the contemporary shifts in image and matter. His works allow viewers to question the intimate experience of landscape, in connection with the ideas of philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who posits that when we contemplate a landscape, we are not facing something external, but rather a territory that also reflects us.

His training in the Italian sculptural tradition forms the technical foundation of his practice, a legacy that has subsequently expanded to include other mediums such as screen printing, video installation, and, more recently, three-dimensional muralism. This disciplinary openness has allowed him to redefine the boundaries of classical sculpture and find his own unique language, where elements of pre-Hispanic cosmogony engage in dialogue with contemporary existentialism.

Through the combination of materials and processes that evoke organic transformations, time manifests in his work as a corrosive and unstoppable force. In this sense, Lozano questions the idea of ​​immutability historically associated with materials like bronze or steel, challenging the notion of permanence that sculpture has traditionally embodied.

The industrial environment of León, Guanajuato, has decisively shaped his connection to robust materials. More than a contextual reference, this productive landscape operates as a symbolic matrix from which Lozano explores the relationship between body, matter, and technique, proposing a sculpture that does not affirm itself in the idea of ​​a monument, but rather in the possibility of constant transformation.

He lives and works between León, Guanajuato, and Mexico City.

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