skulptur – Marco Cueva

Time(?)

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Marco Cueva

Time (?)
A commission for the preschool at Merkuriusgatan, Gothenburg
Time is a difficult concept that can be defined in many different ways, I have chosen the way was represented in Greek mythology and selected a few aspects:
“The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter means a moment of indefinite time in which everything happens.”(Wikipedia)
1. “Kronos” is the personification of time in Greek mythology and is the time that is measured and ends (the chronological time) it is often represented as an old man.
2. “Kairos” Greek word meaning right, critical or opportune moment. For a moment everything is possible but if you miss it, it’s gone..
3. “Aeon” which is the unbound time that has neither beginning nor end, it just goes on. for me the snail is the image of slowness.

A new home for old gloves

Posted on November 16, 2020January 16, 2022 by Marco Cueva

Now has one of my earliest public works got a new home; my old boxing gloves moved from Hagalunds Square to Odinparken at the Olle Olsson Museum. The placing is a commentary to the popular boxer Harry Persson, who lived in Hagalund most of his life.

“Utan Titel” 1999, Solna Stad Granite

“Eclipse of the Sea”, Tyresö Konsthall

Posted on September 1, 2020December 20, 2022 by Marco Cueva

My show “En Construcción” at Tyresö Konsthall

“When I was born for the Seventh Time”, 2020 Marble

“Nibiru”, 2014 Uppsala Kommun Curved Plywood, alabaster

“To bring you my Love”, 2020 Marble, granite Uppsala Kommun

“Koi” 2020 Pegmatite

“Holofernes” 2007 Rosewood, Sandalwood

“Flor” 2008 Onyx, marble

“Nibiru”, 2014 Uppsala Kommun Curved Plywood, alabaster

“Revolver” 1998 Marble

“To bring you my Love”, 2020 Uppsala Kommun Marble, granite

“When I was born for the Seventh Time”, 2020 Marble

“Minotaur” 2011 Wood, iron nails

“Regn”, 2020 Marble, steel, granite Statens Konstråd

“Creation” 1997 Bubinga, alabaster

Odiseo

Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2022 by Marco Cueva

Soon in a school in Uppsala

Odiseo Granite, 120 x 120 x 90 cm Uppsala Photo: Ingvar Helander

Odiseo Granite, 120 x 120 x 90 cm Uppsala

[Odiseo Granite, 120 x 120 x 90 cm Uppsala

Odiseo Granite, 120 x 120 x 90 cm Uppsala Photo: Ingvar Helander

Odiseo

Odiseo Granite, 120 x 120 x 90 cm Uppsala Photo: Ingvar Helander

Odiseo

“Arcadia”, part three

Posted on June 6, 2019December 20, 2022 by Marco Cueva

Karlslundsgården, Örebro

Arcadia” a public art commission for Karlslund’s Vårdboende

Arcadia was a region in ancient Greece considered a home of paradisiacal innocence and quiet happiness, i.e. a garden of pleasure. For me, a suitable theme for the nursing home’s garden. I was inspired by Egyptian art for the design of the yard’s decoration. The dominant element of the garden is the pond, which brings to mind watering holes in the African savannah, meeting places￹ for all kinds of wild animals that coexist in relative harmony. A hippopotamus often lives in these waterholes; “Tauret” is a common motif in Egyptian sculpture – often made in blue or turquoise ceramics; It symbolizes rebirth. Another figure that I like to return to is the god “Toth” in his baboon form, the god of equilibrium and balance. The sculptural ensemble was completed with a cat statue in red granite, in this case a reclining lioness: “Bastet” was the symbol of fertility and a healing deity. The figures are somewhat stylized and polished so that the form is soft and inviting to the touch

Everything is almost ready, the only thing left is to fill the pool