Pancho Porto - stormy days

Small-format sculpture in bronze, limited edition by the Spanish sculptor Pancho Porto.

Pancho Porto (Santiago de Compostela, 1988) began his training in the specialty of artistic cabinetmaking at the Antonio Failde center in Ourense. In this school he first came into contact with disciplines such as carving, drawing, and modeling, and, more importantly, with working in the workshop.

Later he enrolled in the Mestre Mateo School of Arts and Crafts in Santiago de Compostela, where he studied what would later become his main discipline: sculpture. It is at this school that he began working with materials that would be basic in his work, such as steel or clay. Parallel to this, Porto continued his self-taught study and researched other materials such as bronze and resins and their multiple uses and finishes.

After this initial training phase, he decided to set up his workshop on the banks of the Sarela River, very close to the place where he was born. It is here that he begins his particular theoretical and practical investigation of the relationship between the materials used in each work and the message they convey. This leads him to seek new proposals for communicating and narrating his story. Since then, this has been the usual tone of his works, endowing the whole body of his work with complexity and depth, with themes that touch both the social sphere and his personal experiences.

Exhibitions:

Group Exhibitions Kaleidoscope (2012-2013)

- Auditorio Cangas do Morrazo
- Casa da Cultura de Porto do Son
- Liceo de Noia
- Auditorio Lalín

Individual Exhibitions 2017

- Exposición No Solo Historias, Santiago de Compostela (Galería Campus Stellae)

Public Work

Feet at the End of the Path, Plaza da Quintana, Santiago de Compostela.