Le Pur Métal de Lydia HARAMBOOURG, Historienne Critique d’art, Membre correspondant de l’Institut, Académie des Beaux Arts

Agueda Lozano carries on a dialogue with stainless steel by questioning this metal’s capacities for resistance and ductility. In her recent sculptures she asserts the semantics now recognized as her signature. Clarity of form, appropriate to geometry whose sobriety echoes the silence resulting from the tensions, guarantees the veracity of the infinite variations contained in what we will call abstraction. For the artist, it is first a question of organic geometry. Shapes that are flat, rounded, or sometimes rolled, are ready to spread out into space under the enigmatic impulse of verticality which projects a vital surge.

Each of her sculptures suggests an image whose plastic power conjures up our imagination. The indentations describe a framework of reality no sooner sensed than absorbed by a presence of a poetical essence. What do these jagged or ripped lines, or these sinuous and abruptly broken planes represent, as they assail the void ? Agueda Lozano’s determination to confront space, master it, or make an accomplice of it, renders the long thought-out volumes dynamic before submitting them to the play of light. Which glides over the polished shapes until broken by a fine or a lacerated outline. The lines trace sensual trajectories of movement which play with the laws of physics, taking them to extremes of apparent disequilibrium, immediately rebalanced by the power of the base. This determination to secure the sculpture and its fundamental impulsion cannot be dissociated.

The monumental quality inherent in Agueda Lozano’s sculpture, and its dynamic force, benefit by the architectural research with which she tries to establish correspondences. Defying the laws of physics such as that of gravity, she compensates the singularity of a deformation by establishing self-evident rhythm, balancing open and closed spaces which give rise to resolutely naturalistic and evocative dialogues. Agueda Lozano dominates chaos by taming geometry whose elements she retranscribes with passion.
The double anchorage in her work of subtle subjectivity and the recurrent presence of rupture is the sensitive expression of her vision of the world which tends towards unity.