Giant foreshortening

Technique: Ceramic painted with oxides on the cover
Support: 20 x 20 cm tiles
Total measurements: 20 x 80 cm
Date: 1999

This work belongs to the period immediately after Antonio finished his Fine Arts degree, when he was exploring techniques such as collage .

Painted with oxides on tiles , this piece is one of her earliest ceramic exercises and, at the same time, a clear seed of what would later become a recurring motif in her work: giant women . At the center of the composition, a monumental female figure towers over two smaller figures, generating a play of scale that transcends the physical to speak of presence, power, and one's own gaze.

The tiles were rescued from a house that no longer exists . In the process, one of them suffered a small chip on one of its corners, a minimal wound that, far from detracting from the work's value, adds history and authenticity. Like a scar from its own journey, this detail recalls the fragile and resilient nature of art when it survives time and oblivion.

Thus, the piece acquires an almost archaeological dimension, as if its colors, lines, and shapes preserved the memory of a vanished place.

Today, this gigantic woman sees the light of day again, not only as part of the artist's personal history, but as a surviving fragment of a time of searching, learning, and intuitions that already heralded a voice of her own.