Ancizar Marin - Sculptor
Ancizar Marin is the original creator & award winning sculptor of the 'Wall Climber' sculptures. Ancizar Marin UK is the official distributor for the artists work for the United Kingdom.
Ancizar Marin's climber sculptures and installations, for which he is best known. Composed of fibreglass and volcanic rock, finished to a high gloss with prestige automotive lacquers in a dazzling array of hues, continue to delight all who encounter them scaling walls, rappelling down windows, leaning against columns, and perching on lintels. Evoking teams of rock climbers, window washers, fish, birds and circus performers. Suspended high above the ground on screws or wires that are looped, lassoed, and threaded about them, engaged in gravity-defying feats, charming young and old viewers alike.
Indeed, Marin hopes that audiences will experience nothing more complicated than pleasure through movement, colour, and form. His philosophy pays homage to the Matissean credo that art should be joyful, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, and appeal to everyone.
Born in Colombia, Marin first received formal art training in the 1980s at the Bellas Artes Institute in Manizales, Colombia. He continued to study sculpture at the Luccio Petraglia School of Art in Bogota, where he honed his sculptural proficiency in bronze and steel. Later, South American travel exposed him to the rich melting pot of cultural influences that further informed his approaches to colour and texture. Marin works now in South Florida, where his work has been featured in design magazines, gallery shows, and prestigious art fairs, and private commissions continue to proliferate.
His small figurative forms are relatively inexpensive, which encourages and allows collectors to purchase multiple sculptures at a time. For Marin, this achieves his desire to encourage the figures to engage with one another in dynamic groupings that can be arranged and rearranged at will. The shadows thrown off by the glossy little men and women, who alternately squat, leap, lunge, stretch, and perform arabesques, further energise the walls against which they are installed, so that the spatial sum of the parts far exceeds the individual sculptural components.
Larger individual pieces are available and currently command prices into the thousands but these are totally bespoke and are sure to become future investment works that still maintain and delight collectors lucky enough to own them. Should you be requiring such a piece for your collection, simply contact us for current availability.
What Ancizar Says About His Work:
"Since my time in high school, sculpture has been an obsession and a fascination for me. The idea of moulding three-dimensional forms, with contour, details and colours provides me endless creativity. I have been privileged to have worked with masters such as Fernando Botero. Being an artist sculptor has never been easy. However, I cannot describe the amount of joy, happiness and peace that I feel when I am sculpting, especially when working on a new idea.
I have developed an affinity for fibreglass and bronze as a medium. Such material provides me with infinite ways to express my ideas, my feelings, my desires, my thoughts and the challenge of knowing how we the artists are very different. That's why I experiment with new techniques and finishes, including chrome, bronze, volcano rock, wood, resin and fibreglass. I have been a recipient of many awards that have set me apart from other sculptors.
