A wide book of artist includes the career and work of the sculptor Jose Manuel Belmontecoinciding with the 40th anniversary of his professional career. The work offers an exhaustive review of four decades of creation and presents itself as one of the … the author’s most ambitious projects. The publication includes an in-depth analysis of his work, as well as an in-depth interview in which José Manuel Belmonte himself reflects on his artistic evolution, his influences and the main stages of his path.
The work is completed by a detailed curriculum of these forty years of work and a wide selection photographic high quality, workmanship Rafael Carmonawhich allows you to visually explore some of his most iconic works and series.
Among them, outfits already emblematic of his production stand out such as ‘Los bird men‘, ‘The recreation of the absent’, ‘Custodes’ or ‘Alma’, in addition to the reliefs of ‘The body of sin’ and ‘Bestiario’, which occupy an important place in the volume due to their symbolic and formal power.
This artist’s book, which will be presented in the coming weeks after the end of the Christmas period, is promoted by José Manuel Belmonte himself and has benefited from the support of Deputation Provincial of Córdoba, through the Rafael Botí Provincial Foundation of Plastic Arts, within the framework of the call for grants to support creation and development in the visual arts during the year 2025.
The initiative is part of the José Manuel Belmonte initiative. Forty years of sculpture. The volume also puts the finishing touches to a key year in the sculptor’s career, marked by his great exposure anthology “Form and content”, organized last fall at the Casa de Vacas Cultural Center in Madrid. The exhibition made Belmonte one of the great protagonists of the Madrid art scene and was visited by more than 60,000 people in less than a month.
Exposure
Belmonte, who expressed his gratitude for the support of the Provincial Deputation and the Botí Foundation, emphasizes that “the exhibition in Madrid, which was a before and an after, and this artist’s book are two goals which I’ve been working on for a while, but by no means an end point.
In this sense, he explains that he is currently concluding a public works for the municipality of Belalcázar, in the region of Los Pedroches, and is already working on the preparation of a new exhibition. “I feel strong enough to move forward, to create,” he says.
Includes an interview in which the sculptor reflects on his work and sources of inspiration
José Manuel Belmonte, born in Córdoba in 1964, is one of the most significant figures in contemporary figurative art from Andalusia and Spain. Trained at the Mateo Inurria School of Arts and Crafts and in Italy, he was a disciple of the master Antonio Gallardo Parras and from an early age showed an exceptional talent for sculpture.
Throughout his career he has obtained important distinctions, including the Jacinto Higueras Prize, the Figurative Prize of the MEAM of Barcelona and the Andalusia Medal. His work, with a strong emotional and social charge, has been exhibited internationally in cities such as Shanghai, Brussels, Nuremberg and Singapore, as well as in Spain in art centers and galleries in Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, A Coruña and Barcelona. Belmonte is a member of Royal Academy from Cordoba.
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