Max Leiva
By: [textos = texts = textes: Nöel Coret, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Silvia Herrera Ubico]
Edition: 1a. ed.
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Guatemala]
Language: spa; eng; fre
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789929402157
Subjects: Guatemalan Sculpture; Interviews; Catalogs
Description: Catalogue of the figurative, abstract or public-space sculptures that Max Leiva (b. Guatemala 1966) has created between 1998 and 2012, from the smallest ones to his 18 meter obelisk, part of the Monumento a la Cooperación, Plaza de la República, Guatemala City. The artist considers the book a graphic document of his creative process, and includes sketches and color reproductions of a selection of 55 works produced in the last 15 years. Leiva was a disciple of Dagoberto Vásquez, one of Guatemala's most recognized sculptors. Nöel Coret, president of the Salon d'Autome (Paris - Grand Palais des Champs Elysée) describes Leiva's elegant, aerodynamic and pointed sculptures in his introduction "His artistic path materializes in the figurative or the abstract, claiming not only his roots to the grand Maya culture of Central America, which nourish him, but also his thirst for the nectar of life taken from the fountain of the world's songs."--P. 10.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Max Leiva : exposición de escultura" held Aug. - Sept., 2012 at the Galería Túnel, Guatemala City.

Text in Spanish, English and French.
Table of contents: title: Max Leiva: el arte de esculpir el canto del mundo = Max Leiva: The art of sculpting the song of the world = Max Leiva: L' art sculpter le chant du monde / Nöel Coret; title: Transportador de sueños = Conveyor of dreams = Transporteur de revés / Rodrigo Rey Rosa; title: Max Leiva, charla con el escultor = Max Leiva, a conversation with the sculptor = Max Leiva, entretien avec le sculpteur / Silvia Herrera Ubico.