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An eternal material, in a world that is a continuous becoming

There are few people who know the details of lost wax casting, even among experts. Do you know many artists who try bronze? I do not, and I know many artists. But it is not a question of knowledge, but rather the tail of a legacy that for centuries has seen the hard work of craftsmen the prerogative of a world of men, in the forges, among the blacksmiths. Personally, among all the techniques, fusion is the one that continues to fascinate me most because it is fallible, because it is the result of very delicate balances between iconographic rendering, laws of physics and chemistry, because it is a union between creativity and science, because the finished object has a long birth path, before becoming eternal (...)
Gabriela was born in a post-dictatorship society, in a climate sensitive to the world of Neruda, to magical realism. But her essence is less docile than it seems. During our conversations there is a word that I have often heard her pronounce: resistance.
She told me one day: “Our role as artists in today’s society is in great crisis, but I believe that never as today is it worth resisting.” Understood not as opposition but as the capacity to resist, which is something else entirely and which links perfectly to that stubborn, cultural will to go forward along the most impassable roads.

Barbara Paltenghi Malacrida
Director of the Cantonal Art Museum of Mendrisio, June 2021.

Meet again

Bronze 2/9 - H 42 x W 22 x D 14 [cm]

The two figures in this sculpture, captured in the attempt to advance towards each other, represent at the same time the effort of dialogue and the importance of attempting a step forward towards the other, even if often uphill. An invitation to overcome the difficulties of communication to be able to perceive and abandon oneself in the arms of the other.

Couple's Dance

Bronze - H 40 x W 25 x D 15 [cm]

The Dance
Is talk with the body. Is not mute the music of the body.

Tango

Bronze 1/9 - H 115 x W 45 x D 35 [cm]

This sculpture shows a game of seduction in which the attraction and tension of the two bodies can be seen reflected in the lines of support.

The Creation

Bronze - H 35 x W 24 x D 8 [cm]

Meet again

Bronze 3/9 - H 76 x W 36 x D 20 [cm]

Uphill

Bronze - H 30 x W 25 x D 28 [cm]

From the traces left by their footprints, two figures emerge, walking together. The rigour of the slope can be perceived in the tension of their backs and the slight forward lean of their bodies, yet they continue with energy to negotiate this uphill climb hand in hand.

Summit on the rise

Bronze - H 21 x W 34 x D 21 [cm]

A figure that expresses personal experience, risk and effort, balance with others, relationship with nature. Gabriela Spector has taken as a reason for her current artistic work the cycling, image of tension, displacement, expansion of its inhabited territory, exploration of the world in everyday experience.

Giuseppe Curonici, art critic, 17-10-2009

Fly with Me - Homage to Chagall

Bronze - H 34 x W 36 x D 12 [cm].

Fly with me is inspired by the dreamlike dimension of the paintings on a blue background (hence the choice of patina) by Marc Chagall and in particular by his lovers who soar in flight. Bronze is a material that has the perfect characteristics to render the lightness and sweetness of the lovers' flight.

Mother and daugther waiting

Bronze - H 36 x W 27 x D 18 [cm]

Family Today

Unique bronze - H 35 x W 40 x D 25 [cm]

Her sculptures, both fragile and solid at the same time, speak to us of the relationship between man and woman, made up of expectations and distances, bonds and separations; they speak to us of the bond between mother and child and of motherhood, full expression of the generating force; They speak to us, again, of the family, a pivot from which the journey of each one begins and a constant point of return, of reminiscences and suggestions.

Alessia Brughera, Nell’intreccio di arte e vita, Azione

We and Our Traces

Bronze 2/2 - H 118 x W 55 x D 62 [cm]

The Hug

Bronze - H 90 x W 65 x D 65 [cm]

The work was created as a detail of the 3-metre monumental sculpture of the same name that I created in 2019. In the detail of The Hug, I synthesised the magic of the meeting of the two bodies, capturing the small gestures that symbolise this union.

Mother

Bronze - H 34 x W 4 x D 4 [cm]

In Gabriela Spector’s forms we glimpse the feminine in small things, in her nature open to values (...) because they are ancestral and deep. And which she has been able to convert, in an entirely authentic way, from instinct into inspiration.

Barbara Paltenghi Malacrida
Director of the Cantonal Art Museum of Mendrisio

Balance

Bronze - H 51 x W 24 x D 20 [cm]

The figures converse as couples, they speak to each other, touch, hold each other and embrace, dance and fly. And they do so using an eternal material, in a world that is constantly becoming.

Barbara Paltenghi Malacrida
Director of the Cantonal Art Museum of Mendrisio

And the ship goes

Unique bronze - H 47 x W 28 x D 13 [cm]

The ship's sails unfurl like wings, ready for the great voyage of its crew, the couple who look out from one of the wings. Symbol of freedom, intelligence, creativity, transcendence and divine protection, the wings are also, in this sculpture, the representation of the voyage on which the couple's love embarks.

Blue Figure

Bronze 1/5 - H 165 x W 60 [cm]

I had also called this sculpture Blue Angel. In the year 2000 I chose to represent the crucifixion of a woman, a symbol of suffering along the female path. The choice not to add physical wounds and to apply instead a blue patina to the body reflects my wish to represent pain in a dimension of great dignity and beauty. The work was made with the technique of casting from life, in my view the most incisive for conveying its story, choosing a dancer friend as the model.

Adam and Eve

Bronze - H 60 x W 77 x D 20 [cm]

The tree symbolically recalls the bond with one's origins or rather with one's roots. The two figures present look serenely forward towards a shared project.

Kiss

Bronze - H 30 x W 40 x D 22 [cm]

I came home and found my friend the birch

Bronze and birch wood - H 23 x W 15 x D 4 [cm]

He took refuge in an old chestnut beam

Bronze and chestnut wood - H 35 x W 21 x D 7 [cm]

The Birth

Bronze - H 127 x W 53 x D 28 [cm]

This work is a self-portrait made when I was pregnant with my daughter. It was the last work in a series of casts of pregnant women, which concluded in 2002 with the exhibition Voglia di pancia (Belly Craving). The path represents the great desire to have a child, an instinctive and physical dimension of living motherhood. The catalogue on the project also includes interviews with the expectant mothers who took part.
My daughter Irina’s little hand was made with alginate and applied to the cast.

Ludovica

Bronze 1/5 - H 107 x W 45 x D 85 [cm]

In following this humanity that moves on the maps, the memory runs to the works created by Gabriela Spector for the exhibition 'desire belly' that collected the casts of bodies of pregnant women, with the idea of going back (happy, serene, natural) at the origin of life and then start again. Humanity 'in' before it is out, bounced from one continent to another. Enjoyed and lived from the beginning, to then recognize it in its entirety.

Luigi Cavadini

Lia and the Swallow

Bronze unique piece - H 146 x W 50 x D 40 [cm]

Walkers

Bronze - H 60 x W 45 x D 52 [cm].

Figure of a Man

Bronze unique piece - H 170 x W 56 x D 46 [cm]