Art & Life with Carlos Pelayo Martinez-Rivera

 

Today we’d like to introduce you to Carlos Pelayo Martinez-Rivera.

Carlos Pelayo, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
Educated in the experimental schools that emerged in Venezuela with the rise of democracy and the concurrent oil boom, I was trained early on to see making as an equal part of the curriculum, along with mathematics and science. After an MBA business career, I found home in the skills I learned in my youth, materializing the intimate relation that exist between problem finding and solving, technique and expression, work and play. This work, just as Richard Sennett notes, “which remains permeated with the play attitude, is art.”

Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I recently ventured into the design and manufacture of utilitarian objects. The main material of my work is wood, that I love to combine with other elements. Indistinctly, I use fresh cut wood and discarded wood; I expose and hide the natural features of its own materiality. I find equal satisfaction to reveal the beauty of woods as different as pine, cedar and walnut, or to transform construction wood or discarded art crates into useful objects. By designing geometric compositions, and providing physical movement to my pieces, my aim is to create different and original objects that emphasize the natural condition of their materials as well as my intervention.

Do you think conditions are generally improving for artists? What more can cities and communities do to improve conditions for artists?
The life of artists is hard in general. Probably like any other profession, it needs a lot of work and effort to emerge in a highly competitive world, but the exertion is worth it. Without art, the other disciplines will always be incomplete, and without soul.

Integrate the arts as well as the sciences in education. Education must be integral, the lack of humanities in education fractures a society that must be complete and universal.

 

Contact Info:

• Website: http://deparia.blogspot.com/
• Phone: 6175481735
• Email: [email protected]

Image Credit:
Carlos Pelayo Martinez Rivera

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