SCULPTURE/ ESCULTURA

The movement is a drawing in space. Outlines an ephemeral way giving an impression in people who watch this move. The movement disappears, but the impression stays in the memory.

If the move is surprising, gifted with beauty and efﬁ ciency, the impression is of admiration. People talk, trying to describe it and explain it with emotion. And that is how some movements are perpetuated in the history of man as feats.

This is the case of the bicycle and volley kicks ex-ecuted by Pelé. Unforgettable moments, reminded in a poetic form only. This project of objects intends to turn movements in a material reality: sculptures condensing the movement.

Between 2015 and 2017, seventeen sculptures were produced. A project elaborated directly on the Nota-Anna notation of three movements: the bicycle kick executed by Pelé, recorded in video, in 1958; the volley kick performed by Pelé, recorded in video, in 1958; and the yokogueri kekome hit performed by Bruce Lee, recorded on film in the 1960s. In the Architecture of Movement video, one can see the graphical variations of Nota-Anna for Pelé’s kicks. Looking at those images together with the sculptures, the closerelationship between movement and sculpture becomes clear: these are the material condensation of the movement with great accuracy. These sculptures were made in 3D printers with diverse materials, always in small size, between 12 and 26 cm in height.

The text of the exhibition Unforgetable Kicks: Nota-Anna began 36 years ago, in order to find a writing for the human movement that could be read, understood and interpreted by anyone, layman or expert. Due to the characteristics of the technology of each epoch, and always, preserving the biological structure of our body and our free expression; the results were varied in each phase of this research, suffering many limitations or surprising successes. Its evolution shows that the result has an artistic and technological concern, and above all social and human, developing in people a positive and constructive psychological and emotional interrelationship.

Sculpture, which is the movement itself condensed into a matter object, signifies a new possibility in understanding the movement and how we express ourselves. We can see that what we call abstract in the plastic arts can be the revelation of an immaterial reality that exists. Still unknown to our aesthetic standards.

In “Unforgettable Kicks” we present a high-quality result so that the public can live a new dimension of their daily life and know their own movement. Think and analyze, and at the same time, be spontaneous and create. Have fun.