JONÁS GUTIERREZ
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1966.
The artist began sculpting at a young age. In 1980, he helped create the public monumental sculpture “La Estampida”, which stands at a busy intersection in his hometown, near the iconic Hotel Riu building.
Jonás Gutiérrez is known in Puerto Vallarta for his monumental 2.4-meter high bronze and obsidian sculpture “El Sutil Comepiedras”, which was installed on the Malecón and unveiled on October 14, 2006, and depicts a magician with an obsidian stone stomach.
In 1987, Gutiérrez began working in the workshop of Ignacio Fernández del Valle, who became his mentor. In 1988, he made his first bronze piece, which he titled “Zoomorphic Piece”. In 1989, Jonás dabbled in wood carving and developed this technique for two more years, during which there was a search that would add an organic sense to his later creations.
Returning to the lost wax method, his sculptures seem to be more concerned with a search for balance in composition and the suffering of the human figure; the female figure that runs away or appears predominates.
A later stage would seem to summarize everything: animal, organic element and the female figure; all in one compact composition. This stage comes to an end, when Gutiérrez begins to use a mineral element, stone, in his pieces. His work entitled “El Sutil Comepiedra” and the one that deserved the recognition in 1998 of the October Hall appears, under the title of “Fusion”. This stage would have a long development, that only in the preparations for its exhibition in the Televisa art space does it seem to make room for a new proposal already announced, with “El Don Cuadrado” and the other characters who are preparing to observe, to dance and suffer the vision of life or unreality.
The artist began sculpting at a young age. In 1980, he helped create the public monumental sculpture “La Estampida”, which stands at a busy intersection in his hometown, near the iconic Hotel Riu building.
Jonás Gutiérrez is known in Puerto Vallarta for his monumental 2.4-meter high bronze and obsidian sculpture “El Sutil Comepiedras”, which was installed on the Malecón and unveiled on October 14, 2006, and depicts a magician with an obsidian stone stomach.
In 1987, Gutiérrez began working in the workshop of Ignacio Fernández del Valle, who became his mentor. In 1988, he made his first bronze piece, which he titled “Zoomorphic Piece”. In 1989, Jonás dabbled in wood carving and developed this technique for two more years, during which there was a search that would add an organic sense to his later creations.
Returning to the lost wax method, his sculptures seem to be more concerned with a search for balance in composition and the suffering of the human figure; the female figure that runs away or appears predominates.
A later stage would seem to summarize everything: animal, organic element and the female figure; all in one compact composition. This stage comes to an end, when Gutiérrez begins to use a mineral element, stone, in his pieces. His work entitled “El Sutil Comepiedra” and the one that deserved the recognition in 1998 of the October Hall appears, under the title of “Fusion”. This stage would have a long development, that only in the preparations for its exhibition in the Televisa art space does it seem to make room for a new proposal already announced, with “El Don Cuadrado” and the other characters who are preparing to observe, to dance and suffer the vision of life or unreality.
