Edgar Orlaineta, Sculpture beyond Function

The works of Mexican artist Edgar Orlaineta highlight the apparent contradictions between the principles of Modernism and the way this artistic expression manifested itself in reality. Born in 1972 in Mexico City, where he still lives and works today, Orlaineta focuses on hybrid sculptural forms that draw inspiration from Modernism, popular culture and specific historical moments such as post-war design and architecture that depicted biomorphic forms strongly influenced by Surrealist aesthetics. In his original works, Orlaineta questions the symbolic and economic value of industrial design objects, opening them up to new perspectives through the denial of their functionality, their historical or cult value in order to reactivate the light of the historical avant-garde still present in them.