Alejandro Pantin Gil

In the Faces series, Pantín shifts his topographical investigation towards facial representation, expanding his interest in the human form and its expressive potential. Using disused books, the artist sculpts profiles and countenances that emerge from the paper as latent presences, constructed through successive cuts that generate depth, relief, and geometric tension. Here, the technique is directed towards capturing identity and gaze, using the materiality of the book as a symbolic stratum containing time, memory, and narrative. The series proposes a reading of the face as a palimpsest: a space where the biographical, the formal, and the cultural overlap. Thus, Pantín transforms objects destined for oblivion into contemporary portraits that question how we perceive, construct, and preserve the human image.

2 works in the series

The Muses series delves into the exploration of the body as an archetype of beauty and as a cultural construct. Pantín uses discarded books to model volumes that allude to Greco-Roman female anatomies, obtained through topographical cuts that build form layer by layer. This approach combines architectural precision with sculptural sensitivity, creating pieces where three-dimensionality emerges from the printed support itself. In Muses, the book becomes a body that holds memory: its content, its colors, and its typographical arrangement are integrated into the final surface, acting as a conceptual skin. The series thus proposes a reflection on how the obsolete can become canon, and how classical beauty can be reactivated through materials linked to contemporary ephemerality.

3 works in the series