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Indepth Arts News:
"The Spell of the Sensuous - Dam de Nogales, Sculptors"
2001-02-04 until 2001-02-16
ACWR Gallery
Winsor, ON,
CA Canada
The Windsor and Regional Art Council is pleased to present international
sculptor duo Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales in The Spell of the
Sensuous, a unique fusion of the figurative with the abstract, of bronze
with iron, of mind with motion and matter.
Sculptors, Veronica de Nogales Leprevost
and Edwin Timothy Dam did not meet until an
exhibition in Spain in 1997.
Veronica, of Columbian and French ancestry was born
in Barcelona, Spain in 1970. Her intense interest in
art and in nature began at an early age, manifesting
itself in drawings and in paintings of nature and of
wild-life, which took her as far as the snowy wooded
areas of Sweden. In 1990, in the University of Fine
Arts of Barcelona, she began to undergo an anatomical
shift to the study of human body movement rendered
not only through two dimensional mediums of
painting, lithography and drawing but also through the
third and fourth dimensions of sculpture and of dance.
Recognizing her talent, the provincial Gallery of
Catalunya, Spain, offered her a solo sculpture
exhibition, first in Spain, and soon after honoured her
works in Paris and Madrid. Her works were soon taken
on by several prestigious galleries in Spain and in
Brussels.
Edwin Timothy Dam, of Dutch descent and
native of Hamilton, Ontario, began his sculptural and
anatomical studies at McMaster University, of
Hamilton, ON, Canada. After two years, led by the
desire to fast-track through a medical program, he
transferred to Calvin College of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, where he underwent a polar shift in his
studies to philosophy, art and literature. With degree
in hand, he moved to Vancouver and joined a clay
studio while learning to build larger structures of
mixed medium in the building industry. Yet it was his
move to Barcelona which was monumental. It was
here, where during an exhibition he met Veronica.
With her encouragement, he entered and won the Pere
Jou competion in Sitges, Spain and began his career as
a sculptor.
Married after only eight months, Edwin and Veronica
began to exhibit together, and then through the
combination of strengths and passions, began to create
together. Their joint works took on a new aurora and
attracted the attention both of prominent galleries in
Spain and of the media. Combining the abstract with
the figurative, iron with bronze, and clay with stone,
their works increased both in magnitude and power.
Now all works are done together, signed under the
unified name of Dam de Nogales. Together they
erected their first permanent outdoor monument El
espiritu del Bosque (The Spirit of the woods), rendered
in bronze and iron and standing 2.62 metres tall, in
Urus, a mountainous pueble in the north of Spain.
Having sunk roots and undergone success in Spain and
in the European art world, their recent move to
southern Ontario, Canada, though unexpected was not
without reason. Over and above their affinity to dance
and to literature, their intense curiosity for nature,
apparent in all of their works, almost predicted
settlement in a more tranquil rural area. While they
continue to exhibit in Spain and in Brussels, they are
currently also exhibiting in three galleries in southern
Ontario, with exhibitions in Detroit, Chicago, Toronto
and New York in the upcoming year. IMAGE:
Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales
El espiritu del bosque
The spirit of the woods,
60x260x60cm
Bronze and iron
Numbered Series of 3
No. 1/3 is permanently mounted
Urus, Spain
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