“Els Ninots d’en Tonet” by Toni Riera, Upcycling

“The dolls of Tonet” is a sample of dolls made from the waste that the sea carries to the Menorcan coast: wood, plastics, and all kind of objects that the sea reject, because it does not consider them its own, returning them, arriving at coves and beaches of the island of Menorca.

With this waste material, Toni Riera builds a world of animals, beasts, and other characters, a three-dimensional collage of objects made on the pure style of the object trouvé, the assemblage and the artistic recycling.

In his new exhibition we will be able to see a series of new batch pieces, made especially for artAmore Sitges, animals that are part of the Menorcan territory and others that could currently live on the island, all from the sky, from the land and from the sea, pieces that they speak of this island so fragile, so unique and with an unencryptable spectacular natural beauty.

TONI RIERA I ROMA – Lleida – 1974
He has always decontextualized objects, reconverting their function, elevating them to the category of art. Reuse and recycle each other, to build artistic pieces in sculptures or installations.

Toni Riera Roma, despite being a superior technician in Applied Arts to the Wall and Pictorial Procedures at the Leandre Cristóbal de Lleida Municipal School of Fine Arts, having trained himself in other fields such as the sculpture, the engraving, and the ceramics, and having practiced painting for a time, finally he succumbs to the object as a working method. He has been trained as a monitor and a workshop, he is now dedicated to teaching in art centres, schools, and recycling festivals, and he specializes himself in recovering the object as a tool for artistic expression, promoting the values of creative recycling. In 2003 he settled to live in Menorca, and it was here, walking along the beaches, where he began to discover among the waste that the sea carried towards its shores, a new material to work with, a new material that would be part of his work until now.

From November 27th to December 31st 2021, at artAmore Sitges

Tuesday to Sunday from 10.30h to 2pm and from 5pm to 8.30pm
C/ de les Parellades 57 – 08870 Sitges
info@artamoresitges.com – www.artamoresitges.com