José Cabanelas
Sculptor of metal
Abstract artist of metal
Craftsman in wrought iron
Designer
Oupeye, region of Liège
For you, for me, a piece of metal, it is a waste of which we are often sad, has to get rid a cumbersome object.
José Cabanelas, automatically, lends it a new shape, another use, new life!
At the same moment artist and craftsman, this thirty-year-old young man is a sculptor and a designer, fascinated by the work of the metal, to the point that he made his mode of expression, his language in everyday life.
His personality and his sensibility meet themselves completely in each of his works.
Other passion: the light! José plays with it: it is not the artist who expresses himself anymore, it is the work even!
The set of shadow and light, around every realization, creates an atmosphise, a space, suggests the other ideas.
The life shines around the work: henceforth, the metal speaks to you, to you too …
Photo of the artist : here
Photo of the Ice Cube in big : here
Switched on cubic Ice : here
NEW CREATION WELCOME : HERE
José Cabanelas
Artist of conceptual metal
Rue des pommiers, 8
4680 Oupeye
Belgium
Gsm : 0032 (0)495 45 60 50
Joseph.cabanelas@teledisnet.be
See the arrow in big : here
See a lamppost : here
Detail of the lamppost : here
See characters : here
José was rewarded for the golden medal in the category sculpture of the International Lounge of the Arts of Olne in 2007.
NEW CREATION :
Here : fans Spring
Here : Fred & Please
Here :Au fil du temps & Lip'o sucion
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Writing translates our personality, both by its shape and by its style.
José Cabanelas's work, it is a page of its writing:
He is the whole inside!
On a precise subject, he delivers us his point of view, confides his impressions and invites us in the confidence.
Every creation, the same most monumental, will keep this intimacy and the friendly side.
Who said that the metal was cold? In José's hands, it becomes alive, warm and communicative.
A contemporary artistic universe, close to us, which only asks to be investigated.
A simple, but universal message: the life can be beautiful when we like sharing it.
Of Mediterranean origin, José speaks with hands:
Every detail of metal will be arched in the hand, softened in the blowtorch, until take the exact shape wanted by the artist
This contact with the material, José needs it.
With the public also: the art, the emotion to be shared
To see “I May ?” in big : here
See sculpture of outside: "appearance" here
“Much of my works result from the material recovery which has a history, one lived…
I see an artistic potential thise.
Constant creation is my engine of life”.
Thus Jose reveals the origins of his achievements:
Discs of brakes which support the world and which light your daily universe, hise is an original lamp, with the alleviating virtues.
An empty illuminated oil barrel, representing our mother “the ground” howling That' S Enough (that is enough), stop pumping, the ground suffered enough (it is a sculpture set of themes) STOP WITH OIL!!!
An old closet collected in a store will become a splendid door coats, with the almost human silhouette which tightens you the arms and is given the responsibility to keep the keys or the currency that you entrust to him, etc, etc,…
For Jose, art must accompany our life by the every day, one has pleasure to see it, one can touch it.
A friend likes to render service; the sculpture must thus have a function, make itself useful.
If, moreover, you find it beautiful, if you like it, work is in its place on your premise and will open out.
See barrel into large : here / lit : here
See idea déco : here
Jose Cabanelas creates the prototypes of multiple decorative objects, of parts of furniture, even straightforwardly of pieces of furniture.
Then, it subjects its achievements at specialized firms.
Once his accepted projects, Jose will see his works exploited with multiple specimens.
Its artistic work proposes only single parts: they testify to the dashes of the heart, of the instantaneous ones which convey moments, selected thoughts.
Jose approaches his activity of designer as a craftsman of independent art:
if these creations are personal works, they must correspond to the tastes and the needs for the companies which will distribute them.
Its style will have to touch a larger audience, it thus supposes some (small) concessions with commercial criteria.
The craft industry has obligatorily a utility vocation, which does not exclude of anything the artistic creativity designer.
Art, it is another approach, a more personal universe which has nothing to do with the fashion…
See relations into large : here
See gloss : here
To be an artist, it is the creativity in a pure state.
To be a craftsman, it is also to take account of daily realities.
Jose Cabanelas functions under these two “caps”.
In all the cases of figures, it considers his achievements as a good father sees his children:
He cannot choose, moreover, it, “To choose, it affirm is to give up! ».
And his clear glance launches: “To choose one of the children, it to give up, it is inhuman! ».
Works of Jose, the artist, are often imposing, therefore, very doors.
Jose, the craftsman, reacts systematically: it is brought to transport its achievements from one exposure to another.
The purchaser of the one of his works, it does not matter the reason, must, him also, capacity to move these creations according to his imagination or his needs.
This is why the craftsman joined the artist and proposes achievements made up of light and easily transportable modules.
Another way of being close to its public: to take account of the contingencies of each one!
Every new technology, each new material generates important modifications with the centre even of our company.
Without would the appearance of iron, initially, metals then, which be our environment today?
The agricultural and military techniques would not have evolved/moved, industry would not have revolutionized the world of work and the policies could never have imposed certain modes.
Our ways of life would be different with the daily newspaper: never used pans out of metal or simply of keys to start your car or to open the door of your apartment?
One uses metal for all and in almost each one of our activities. Craftsmen in wrought iron and sculptors on metal as Jose Cabanelas carry on his shoulders a heritage, an immense heritage which they magnificent through their works:
“With the daily newspaper, the utility first of the object is diverted to reveal its plastic dimension, without betraying its utility destination”.
The artists give a cultural dimension impossible to circumvent to metal.
See table sculpture into large : here
