Jimenez

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About the artwork

Costa Rican artist, Jorge Jiménez Deredia, has taken Rome by storm with his 60 piece work placed at various ancient historical locations, such as the Forum and Coliseum. The artist has much more in mind, however, than just a display of art. His major motivation is to send a message of harmony and peace to the world. Jiminez is the first contemporary sculptor to have his sculptures display outside the Colosseum in Rome

About the artist

Jiménez graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and, between 1980 and 1986, he attended the Faculty of Architecture at Florence University. The intellectual stimulations of those years profoundly changed his approach to his artistic work and, immersed in the Florentine climate, he extended his interest in the Renaissance period. The intellectual fervor of that time pushed him to reflect extensively on the development of his own work. The perception of a globalised dimension of 'being' and the universe, forming the basis of his vision of life, developed and deepened thanks to a conscious return to the cultural origins of his own country. In his work, he started to reflect the extraordinary creative influence received by observing the monumental granite spheres, produced by the pre-Columbian civilization of the Borucas. Those artifacts of mysterious primordial strength moved the sculptor towards studies as much of shape and material used, as of function and symbology derived from the sphere and circle.