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Modern Mythological Outdoor sculpture by the Traditional Basque sculptor Patxi Xabier Lezama Perier.
Amalur is the name in Basque means “Mother Earth”. In the legends of the Basque people, Earth, Ama-Lurra, is the main deity. The Earth appears as carrier of all living beings, possessing own vital force that created our natural environment. The Earth is a huge vessel, an unlimited receptacle, where the souls of the dead live and most mythological characters. Faith in Ama-Lurra is very old in prior to the invasion of the Indo-European peoples Basque people. Teluria is related to the Earth cult, energies that come from inside the earth, come, circulating and continuously emanating from the earth`s surface.

Artist Comment

The archetype of the matriarchal Goddess and the symbolic structure of the female image in Basque mythology, ritual, art and creation. The cultural mythology and Basque creativity of La Diosa and the fine creative sensitivity that characterizes every work, turned into a classic reference of contemporary Basque culture of the Mother Goddess (Amalur) and her omnipotent character, represented as the arachnic divinity that weaves the web universal of the cosmos. Stone spheres set in wrought iron in the sculpture of the hypothesis of the universe as Mother Earth. An ecological review of Nature in its symbolic image as a creative capacity where creativity as a matriarchal-feminine attribute, which is claimed by every creator in contact with existence that will finally open up to the limit stage of the Spirit as the horizon of the transcendent sense. The feminist movement and its struggle for liberation for emancipation take on special relevance in this production sculpture that reflects the reality of the creative archetype that explores the world of the maternal body matriarchally, whose psychological reality symbolically embodies a woman, an interesting mystical worldview of the archetype of the Mother Goddess (Amalur) for the artistic cultural mediation of the Basque people.
Dimensions
190cm
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x 135cm
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Year
2000

Amalur (Abstract Metallic and Stone Sculpture)

by Patxi Xabierauthorlezamaauthorperierauthor

190cm
x 190cm
x 135cm
length
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