Octavi Intente - artAmore Sitges
He studied sculpture at the Massana School in Barcelona. His work is present in foundations and museums, including the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Some of his works can also be seen in some establishments in Barcelona, such as the hotel The Mirror Barcelona (read more) , ABaC Restaurant & Hotel (read more), or at the Hotel Cram the Angle Barcelona (read more) Restaurants and Ten’s Tapas Restaurant (read more) by award-winning Chef Jordi Cruz.
What does the doctor see when looking at a body? The expression of health or disease.
What does the artist see when looking at that same body? A perfect curve, a curious profile, an exclusive nuance …
What would many others see? Maybe a simple “body”.
The look is intentional, it creates the object upon perceiving it, it loads it with meaning. Each look, each eye, reveals a unique and unrepeatable version of reality.
The eye of Octavi Intente discovers in the everyday object a vital breath that imprints not only movement and senses, but also moral identity.
The eye of Octavi Intente enriches the landscape with unexpected elements opening to the strange texture of dreams, often more coherent, intuitive or hopeful dreams that awakens reason.
The eye of Octavi Intente turns the moment into a dense and suggestive film of a single frame.
Nature charges a new functionality; the artifice, qualities of a living organism; the daily scene surprises us, the reinvented space makes us feel complicit …
The work of Octavi Intente inevitably awakens smiling and inner assent, seduces us and admires us by making us come up against what would never have occurred to us and now, suddenly, it appears so obvious and unquestionable.
A shoe, a pencil, a waiter, a priest … any object or character is subject to an ironic, scathing, genuine interpretation, which the spectator has the privilege to know thanks to the hand of Octavi Intente, capable of translating so masterful on the web his perceptive universe.
Defining art has many dangers. It is like trying to retain the essence of the butterfly by nailing it with the needle in the cork.
Nobody licks the label of a bottle of wine to discover the flavor.
We will not make that mistake.
Relax the eye and contemplate.
Andreu F.O.Z.