The image is recreated suspended in the air, the shell of a helpless little body supported by a harness hanging in the wind stirred. The image is kneeling with arms outstretched, holding the books and can not read, the image is referred to in your mirror naked, even look ahead, sleep, think, echo indecipherable secret dreams of those thoughts in unknown languages, in the geography of bodies based on the new realities of thousands of worlds from a re-designed in a language that is crumbling memories. The image is the body of a man vigorous but elderly. The image is one figure that it could be seen at the train station in Cordoba, a chess supported, silent, in a vacuum, while playing their infinite game perhaps against his own clear, opaque reporting that adversary that is gaining weight transparency, which thins to end up being the remnants of a shadow, the most parched whisper of a voice, a name that already has no name. That sculpture, that greeted travelers arriving from Sevilla AVE Madrid or a few years ago was the work of José Manuel Belmonte , one of the most brilliant artists, more cargo and humanist, whose Córdoba today. The work of Belmonte, who has covered nearly half the world to stay, then exposed in other media has not always been understood in Cordoba. However, the folds of their bodies, their eyes lost nearby, like the first bird appeared men emerged from the primordial stories of Flash Gordon, as if a new sculptor Alex Raymond had decided to reinvent classic mythology, and gave a dimension dream to a project that has always man as an end point, as a redemption which thereby shows its origin in the lack, in the loss of self.
has submitted, in the Baroque Patio Córdoba Provincial Council, his new collection Recess of the absent , featuring a sculpture group is an allegory of Alzheimer's disease, senile dementia, pure and essential that they reach these bodies when they are still gifted for life, although their minds, their spirits, their internal breaths, and have stepped into another life, but especially not death, but other latitude, parallel, perhaps, where the children may even become the result of increased vital clearance. It is difficult to explain a sculpture, especially with the moral that there is always Belmonte, tempered by the aesthetic quality of the suggestion spinning body. At the same absence is caused some of the best poetry of Juana Castro, and also several very beautiful poems Matilde Cabello. Let the pleasure of the absent, his poetic sculpture.
