Pedro Miguel de Cervantes Salvadores

Pedro Miguel de Cervantes Salvadores (2 October 1933 – 26 October 2020) was a Mexican sculptor who exhibited in Mexico and abroad and created large monumental works for various locations in the country. Some of his work is noted for its use of used materials such as automobile parts from junkyards. Cervantes received various recognitions for his work including Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 2011 as well as membership in the Academia de Artes and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

Life Cervantes was born in Mexico City, growing up in the Colonia Roma neighborhood with eleven sisters. Since childhood, he was fascinated by horses; his grandfather gave him a horseshoe when he was seven. Since he did not have a horse, he began modeling them from clay. Modeling led him to start drawing and he developed an interest in art.

He attended the Escuela de Artes Plasticas from 1950 to 1952 as a non-matriculated student.

Career Cervantes had his first individual show, Cerámica y terracotas policomadas, at the Galería Excélsior in Mexico City in 1958. Since then, he exhibited his work in various locations in Mexico as well as abroad. and the Galería Aldama in Mexico City in 2007. He also had exhibitions in Guadalajara, Monterrey, the Modern Art Museum of Tokyo, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas and the Club Oficiales de Estado Mayor Presidential. In 2010, a second book about him was published, called El cuerpo en el espacio Las vidas de Pedro Cervantes. "Conceptually, I start out from three elements: mind, body and emotion. Imagination, permanence and movement. Heads, torsos and wings." His works vacillate from aesthetics related to futurism, surrealism, neo-expressionism and neo-Dadaism.