{"id":1176,"date":"2022-06-27T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:13:36","slug":"rogelio-olmedo-sculptures-on-red-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/rogelio-olmedo-esculturas-sobre-tacones-rojos","title":{"rendered":"Rogelio Olmedo: Sculptures on red heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rogelio Olmedo: Sculptures on red heels<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Sculptures that walk between art and memory<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n
27 June 2022 by Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Sculpture<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rogelio Olmedo<\/a>Aragonese sculptor, has always had memories of himself drawing and although life would take him down less creative paths in his youth, when you are born an artist it is something that eventually you can't avoid. In today's post we accompany him through his beginnings drawing surrounded by his brothers, his artistic process and we fall in love a little bit with his wonderful house in Mallorca.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tell us about yourself and your sculptures. Where did your vocation begin? Any first memories?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

As far as I remember I always drew at home with my brothers. Later I gathered some tools and built things. My grandmother, when I was ten years old, gave me a toolbox and taught me how to sew. This situation was born out of abundance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandfather had a toy store and we had access to all the latest toys. At some point I started building our own. Later on, I started a law degree. Still in Zaragoza, I didn't consider the possibility of doing something creative, but I drew and drew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After three years, I tried going to Barcelona, to the Escola Massana, and there a wonderful world opened up for me that I have not been able to give up. Since then, maybe too much outdoors, but security didn't want me to be free. Now I have the option of combining the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you find most satisfying about your work, and any that you are particularly proud of?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I am pleased to see that something in me knows how to do. Over time, I have learned routines, to anticipate problems or to associate with them and make the most of them. Surely, the techniques I have chosen favour surprises. But it's not really that easy either. It's somewhere between exciting and serene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some days I know that I have no idea and I have to hide the drawings so that, after a few days, I can recognise whether they are good or not. People recognise the best ones and leave the less good ones. There is objectively some truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sculptures<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
What is your creative process like, what are your sources of inspiration, any particular music while working?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I am interested in people, individually and in groups. How we perceive reality, how it changes between generations, between cultures and yet how much it repeats itself. I think we are in a moment of metamorphosis, we are more and more capable of combining different categories in a natural way, the results will be unsuspected. And of course good humour and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I usually work without music. In the iron workshop there is a lot of noise and we wear insulating earmuffs. In the drawing workshop I like silence, although some days I listen to familiar music like Bach or Bill Evans. I play music when I make myself lunch, suggestions from Spotify. Sometimes my son makes me listen to what he likes; rap and hip hop, and I love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"rogelio-cervantes<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Favourite colour, book, film and record - in that order! ;D<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Colour: Yellow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book: Tao te chi. By Lao Tse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film: Spirited Away. From Studio Ghibli. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disc: Goldberg Variations. By Glenn Gould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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