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Salvador Juanpere IN RESiDENCE at the School Infanta Isabel d’Aragó
Reflections on the learning process
The work begins with a reflection on the learning process, on the need for hard work and persistence to achieve knowledge. The pupils think of possible objects that can serve as metaphors for learning and personal and intellectual growth. They give shape to these metaphors by drawing the object chosen and writing a text about their choice. Salvador Juanpere talks about these metaphors on the blog. Later, he will describe the object he himself chose. The blog also contains two presentations that Salvador Juanpere devotes to both his own art and his creative process and works by different artists on the theme of the object as metaphor.
The project: ladders
After thinking about the learning process and the objects that can represent it metaphorically, the second stage in the project begins. During a visit by the pupils and teachers to his studio, Salvador Juanpere presents the object that he has chosen to represent the learning process: the ladder. He also describes the next stage in the work: this revolves around researching, photographing and accurately drawing ladders that the pupils find in their immediate surroundings. Salvador Juanpere publishes several documents on this stage in the work on the blog of the residence.
Documenting ladders
All the participants in the project (the artist, the teacher and the pupils) look for ladders in their immediate surroundings. Photographs are taken to document these, accompanied by descriptive texts related to experiences linked to these seemingly unremarkable ladders. All the ladders and texts can be seen in the “Climbing ladders” section of the blog.The “Climbing ladders” section of the blog of Salvador Juanpere’s residence at Institut Infanta Isabel d’Aragó.
Studying, drawing, measuring and breaking down the ladders
Using the photographs, the pupils measure and study the ladders before drawing them: firstly in sketches and next as schematic drawings to highlight their main elements. The real objects are reduced to a 4:5 scale and the works are converted using the AutoCAD software programme so that a company can be commissioned to cut them in wood.
Converting the ladders to AutoCAD
After carefully measuring and studying the ladders selected, they are converted by the AutoCAD programme so that a company can be hired to cut out the wooden sheets.
Building and painting the ladders
The process of building the ladders begins. The pre-cut sheets have been delivered, and now is the time to separate them, number the pieces, sand and polish them one by one and, finally, build the 63 steps that will form the work Deu mil hores [Ten Thousand Hours]. The pieces are then painted white.
Addition of a new element and end of project
In the final stage of the creative process, a final element is added to the work: 40 bronze ingots that are arranged at the foot of the ladders and steps. These ingots, made from bronze, the sculptor’s raw material, symbolise power, the latent state, that which waits to come into being (like the A Bao A Qu at the foot of the Torre de la Victòria tower).
Deu mil hores [Ten Thousand Hours]: the final work
The process of making Deu mil hores [Ten Thousand Hours] culminates with the exhibition of the sculptural installation at the Institut Infanta Isabel d'Aragó school from 1 to 4 June 2010. The work includes 63 steps, painted white, and 21 bronze ingots. The display cases contain material relating to the creative process (drawings, texts, notebooks used by Salvador Juanpere and the pupils, etc.).