Fern - Pinerto

Oxidized-finish sculpture, where the patina is not an end but a process in continual transformation. Conceived to inhabit the exterior —in dialogue with time, the weather, and matter—, the piece nevertheless maintains an adaptable vocation that allows it to integrate also into interior space as an autonomous presence.

The work is articulated as a threshold between the intimate and the visible, where emotion condenses into a sensitive geometry. Its shapes, stretched between balance and displacement, propose a spatial grammar in which each angle reconfigures perception and shifts the idea of beauty toward the unstable. In its presence, space is not occupied, it is activated: it becomes a field of forces, a latent architecture where matter, energy, and proportion dialogue in an open experience.

Its structure has been planned for fixation to a base or plinth, enabling different forms of installation depending on the exhibition context.

Fern is the pseudonym under which the sculptor Clavo and the sculptor Carmen Lop work jointly.

Their practice centers on forging iron and steel, using forging and welding techniques. Their work moves between the figurative and the abstract, occasionally incorporating influences from pop art.

With a strong attention to craft and artisanal work, they have developed a career with presence in collective and individual exhibitions, primarily in the national sphere.

They have received various recognitions, including the Premio de Escultura Urbana Ciudad de Ávila (2006) and the Memorial to the Victims of Machista Violence in Zaragoza (2016).

Their work is inscribed in the tradition of contemporary Spanish sculpture, in dialogue with artists such as Martín Chirino, Jorge Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida, and Julio González.