Justino Del Casar

Justino del Casar was born in Madrid in 1971 and trained at the School of Arts and Artistic Trades in Toledo. Since 2013 he has made symbolic and functional sculptural pieces in his workshop in Valencia, working entirely by hand on one-off totems, columns, tibores and dandelions.

His pieces are built from disposable materials such as lottery tickets, philosophy exams, court rulings, bank documents, packaging and advertising, revalued into timeless objects. The reflection behind the work concerns the fleeting nature of human production in a consumer society, and the dignifying power of art: consumption is temporary, the human being endures.