©Juan M. Quiñones. 'Maxiboom'. Marble.
Quiñones turns any object into a symbol of its time, eliminating its usual functions and meanings, and always doing so with that sense of humour that characterises him as a Cadiz artist. Size, materials and the conversion of matter are fundamental characteristics of this sculptor.
Juan Miguel Quiñones is a self-taught artist who invites us to reflect on the use of food in our lives in an ironic way, by proposing the use of everyday objects from the point of view of Pop Art.
Like Claes Oldenburg, Quiñones turns any object into a symbol of its time, eliminating its usual functions and meanings, and always doing so with that sense of humour that characterises him as a Cadiz artist. Size, materials and the conversion of matter are fundamental characteristics of this sculptor. They are images that are an evocation of reality, a mockery and a satire, without being entirely so.
In his first works in marble, which he began to produce after his work as a sculptor in a marble import-export company, we can find a clear post-modernist influence, as in his fused homages to Giacometti and Klein.
Like Claes Oldenburg, Quiñones turns any object into a symbol of its time, eliminating its usual functions and meanings, and always doing so with that sense of humour that characterises him as a Cadiz artist. Size, materials and the conversion of matter are fundamental characteristics of this sculptor. They are images that are an evocation of reality, a mockery and a satire, without being entirely so.
In his first works in marble, which he began to produce after his work as a sculptor in a marble import-export company, we can find a clear post-modernist influence, as in his fused homages to Giacometti and Klein.