Manuel Salgado is a Madrid-born multidisciplinary artist, based on Ibiza since 2021, focused on sculpture and its dialogue with the island’s natural environment.
His work explores form, weight, and balance through stone, wood, metal, and mixed media, consistently engaging with the textures, contrasts, and geological character of the Mediterranean landscape. Early pieces were shaped using the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique, carving and charring wood to create structures reminiscent of carbonised stone. Later he included local sandstone such as marés and living rock, the medium of his most recent works.
Salgado reveals a clear evolution towards increasingly reduced, abstract organic forms that emerge from a negotiation between conceptual intention and the inherent resistance of the material. His work demonstrates a continuous search for form, texture, and structural clarity, rooted in a close dialogue with the island’s geological landscape.
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