Enrique Cabrera

Enrique Cabrera (Poza Rica, July 14, 1974) is a Mexican sculptor, photographer, musician and restorer. He began his career doing restoration projects with the Government of Mexico, and created his first collection of sculptures, titled Trilogía, in 2010. Since then, his works have been exhibited in places like the Louvre Museum and the Musée Picasso.

Career

Early life and beginnings Cabrera was born in the town of Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz, in 1974. Around the same time, he collaborated with international restoration projects with the National Center for Plastic Arts Research and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature. He also participated in the Pueblos Mágicos project, doing photography work to promote tourism in Mexico. After creating the sculpture collections Skull Miami Colors, Virgen de Guadalupe and San Miguel Arcángel, in 2014 he developed a project entitled Palmarius, made up of sculptures of skulls of various sizes. The largest of them, designed with bronze alloy weighing more than half a ton and two meters high, was exhibited in several countries.

In mid-2019 he announced that he was making seven skull sculptures, which would be placed in seven different cities: Mexico City, Miami, Barcelona, Dubai, Paris, Milan, and New York City.

In 2020 he collaborated with artist Domingo Zapata in a new collection entitled Palmarius Colors, which consisted of four paintings based on his Palmarius project.

Naia and El Toro de Oro Inspired by Naia, the longest-lived female skeleton in the Americas found in Tulum, in the early 2020s he developed a new collection of sculptures, consisting of seven pieces, which were placed in different cities. In January 2021, he announced the donation of one of these sculptures to be located in his native Poza Rica de Hidalgo.

On May 5, 2022, the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel in New York unveiled El Toro de Oro, a large sculpture created by Cabrera from gold ingots. It is the eighth piece in the El Toro de Oro collection, and was part of the celebration of Mexican heritage with the support of the Mexican Consulate and the Meatpacking Business Improvement District. It was also one of the main events during the celebration of the New York Art Week.

Collections

Trilogía Skull Miami Colors Virgen de Guadalupe San Miguel Arcángel Palmarius Palmarius Colors Caballo Veloce Naia El Toro de Oro