Expert on my field!

Today Im going to talk about Juan Egenau!

He was a very important professor in my field. He has died in 1987. When he was 60 years old!

He studied sculpture, but he was always interested in metal work! Before studying arts in Universidad de Chile, he studied Architecture, Jewelry in Florence and Casting in New York!

He is very important for me because he was who take metal work as a major, and he moves the jewelry to the sculpture. Thats why my major nowadays uses to reflect upon metal to make it art.

We still have some of his tools in the workshop. And there is a room called Juan Egenau in the university, where students make the exhibitions!

 Here is one of his works, where we can see as he works with the body and metal, a very usual topic that we reflect in my major.

 
Here, he is working in repousse. Some of the techniques that he brings to the workshop and that we practice nowadays.