One of the conceptual driving forces Javier Marín is currently working on is the concern—increasingly present in the artistic world—about the advancement of automation technologies and their impact on creative processes. Many sculptors and artists still face the integration of these tools with suspicion, fearing that humans will be replaced by machines in the creative process.

Javier Marín, based on his experience and artistic thinking, does not limit himself to adopting these technologies; rather, he questions, confronts, and integrates them as part of a reflective process, highlighting their limits in the face of the intangible nature of art.

Just as angels do not become visible even when one observes the sky with the most sophisticated telescopes, and just as thoughts cannot be located or visualized in a human brain open to surgery, art cannot be reduced to matter or spat out by a machine. Art, in Javier Marín’s vision, manifests itself in intention, doubt, memory, error, emotion: essentially human elements that no automation can replace.

The invitation, therefore, is to contemplate not only the material result of a sculptural process, but also the artist’s conflict, search, and awareness in the face of the use of digital and mechanical tools. Manual gesture and numerical calculation coexist here in a productive tension, where the human does not disappear, but rather reaffirms itself in the machine age.

Terreno Baldío Arte

Eduardo Mier y Terán

Founding Director