Untitled or The Hands, 1987

Some years later the sculptor will confess that the work started as a joke in response to an invitation to take part in a collective exhibition. Asked what he was looking for, the organiser encircled a certain volume of air with his hands and said “something like this”. Gómez thought of making a piece that literally responded to that request. Then he realised that such a work would be more meaningful that he had initially thought, as the hands are the tools that give expression to the ideas in the artist’s mind. He also sees in that emptiness something that precede all forms of art and that the artist tries to fill up, precisely, with the work “at hand”.

At the end of August, he exhibits it at the Ruth Benzacar gallery, in the Escultura de los 80 (“Eighties Sculpture”) exhibition, which is a part of the IX Jornadas de la Crítica, organised by the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte. Miguel Briante marks out his work as one of the few positive new pieces then on show. The exhibition also includes sculptures by Bedel, Omar Estela, Hugo Fortuny, Andrés Guibert, Heredia, Iommi and Gloria Priotti.