Petra | Alejandro Pantín

Alejandro Pantín's work (1990) articulates a formal and conceptual investigation into the book as a sculptural object and container of memory. Through a topographic technique of manual cutting, derived from his architectural training, the artist shapes organic volumes from discarded books, generating structures that evoke anatomical forms and classical proportions. His process is based on precision, symmetry, and constructive logic, exploring the relationship between materiality, knowledge, and beauty. In this reinterpretation of the book, Pantín transforms obsolete information into a new three-dimensional body, where text and matter interact in a visual and symbolic dialogue. The work thus transcends the utilitarian function of the medium to reflect on the transience of information in the digital age and to reclaim the permanence of the tangible. His practice combines the Platonic ideal of beauty with the formal rationality of architecture, achieving a synthesis between technical precision and aesthetic sensibility.