Proyecto Escultura Pública en Puerto Vallarta

 Gustavo Lopez Ochoa

 Bio

Gustavo Lopez Ochoa was born in Jalisco Ocotlan, February 6th, 1972 from where he moved at very early age to the city of Guadalajara Jalisco.

His father is the sculptor Juan Lopez Ricoy from whom he inherited a taste for the arts at very early age, thus began to take classes in drawing and painting to develop his talent.

From the age of 9 he studied art in the Agua Azul Park in the garden art school, later with the painter Maria Luisa Gonzalez Arechiga from Jalisco, at the forum of art and culture in the same city.

He took the career of sculpting at the University Of Guadalajara in the school of fine arts (CUAAD). Where he graduated as a technician sculptor, working there alongside several renowned sculptors such as Estanislao Contreras Colima and Diego Martinez Negrete; from whom he took the application for working with bronze.

In 1998  he moved to the city of Puerto Vallarta where he works as a professor of art  at the regional Hig school of the University of Guadalajara and at  school Niños Heroes, for 5 years dedicated to work only with techniques for wood and chalk pastel drawings, leaving a bronze bust commemorating the school’s founder.

As a painter, he participated in the festival I MADONNARI IN THE CITY OF Santa Barbara Ca. for 3 consecutive years, having been invited by the committee of Sister Cities “Santa Barbara Puerto Vallarta”.

It is in this city where he met  and worked alongside the likes of sculptors Jim Demetro, Octavio Gonzalez, Hector Montes, Alicia Bueno, Paul Piotroski, among others, and decides to set up his own workshop in bronze art foundry, where he currently works on projects for local companies.

Gustavo Lopez artistic work photo gallery.

“Training the Male”

History and justification.

Because they are ”perso-dolphins”, the story is taken a bit of Chumash Indians, who considered dolphins as sacred. ”According to the legend of Hutash, Mother Earth saw his children on the island had multiplied so much that did not fit in it, then formed with a rainbow bridge to the main and that could happen. And one of the conditions was not to look down, because they might fall, some defied the warning and fell into the sea, but Hutash turned them into dolphins so they not  drown. “

Now a much more evolved characters are humanized and that is why we are involved in issuessuch as the one I am proposing.
These days we see more and more women’s participation in roles where been “assumed” were exclusive to men, doing truly remarkable work, and even outperforming functional and intellectual participation, providing even more in everyday tasks such as mothers or family educators.

That’s why this work is represented in this unusual style of a different language but with a fullmodern meaning of values, without reaching the human denigration, on the contrary trying to exalt itby delivering a daily social passage, the simple style of my personal point of view.

The cultural art form is very important for the growth of towns, a country without culture trends will always fail.

I personally believe that it is a transcendental necessity of promoting the culture echo through thepictures, this is the case of Puerto Vallarta, because wise to create monumental sculptures for the best promotion as a tourist destination because in this way does more attractive for tourists every year come together in this place to get rich with traditions and enjoy the images only here you can give.

We are proud to have a modern and updated waterfront without forgetting the beauty of this, with a large number of monumental sculptures that make it even more beautiful along its route by a pleasant walk.

I think the placement not only of this unique sculpture, if not of more sculptures of monumental proportions would be avery wise decision to promote our culture in relation to tourism, and this is where it enters my proposal to place one more sculpture, with the free provision of it, what I am saying is that this book will be donated to  Vallarta’s town, to it’s people and resources will be made with persons who want to partake, giving rise to become promoters of culture, not just locally or nationally, but even international, integrated with a project which has purely cultural basis and foundations, non-profit, on the contrary, intending to support my country and my people of who I am proudly part.

I wish that this work was placed in a public place, where people have free and immediate access, I think the pier of Puerto Vallarta is the place to continue this tradition of beautification and promotion of culture to society, or well, i accept some suggest or ideas.

Etrenando al Macho / Training the Male

Gustavo Lopez.

Sculptor