Blau Dhalo Book Tomás Barceló’s “The Machine I”

Tomás Barceló’s “The Machine I” presents a hypnotic blueprint of an enigmatic

• Blank product sourced from China

Inspired by traditional ceramic motifs and ancient friezes

while the mechanical forms surrounding the head suggest a connection to the robotic

who blame an old local legend: the Knight of Twilight

Blau Dhalo Book Tomás Barceló’s “The Machine I”This portrait of a bearded old man, crowned with gears and marked with blue across the face, resembles a mythological figure from an archaic future. The stern gaze and solid structure evoke both the divine and the mechanical. A delicate painted figure on his forehead suggests a kind of enlightenmenta spark of wisdom or madness. The piece invites us to imagine rusted gods and cybernetic oracles. Sculpture carved in plaster, based on a cast from a fine