Manuel Llaca Osorio “Cepo” is a Hispanic-Mexican sculptor and draftsman who has individually and collectively exhibited his works in Mexico, Spain and France.
He was born in Mexico City in 1963 and is currently living in Madrid since 2004.
He studied Industrial Design and worked in this field for many years and taught Design courses and workshops at different Universities in Guadalajara, Mexico. During this stage he became involved with the plastic arts in a natural and self-taught way, later taking various courses, subjects and workshops. In 1998 he has his first group exhibition at the Cabañas Institute in this city.
In 2003 he moved to the City of Zaragoza, Spain. He studies "Arts applied to Sculpture" at the Zaragoza School of Art and in 2004 he settled in Madrid where he continued training in "Sculptural Techniques" at the La Palma Art School. In July 2004 he has his first solo exhibition "Petits espaces illimités" in Argentan, France.
In 2005 he began to work as a designer draftsman in different companies until 2020. In this long period of time he installed with other friends the artistic workshop "Plataforma34" where he continued to practice sculpture.
Currently he has taken a radical turn to dedicate himself exclusively to the plastic arts.
About The Work
In his work, the main theme is usually the portrait and the space. Influenced by his work experience in design and delineation, his pieces tend towards a minimalist geometric point with a small dose of expressionism bestowed by his devotion to silent films. He seeks in each work the spatial relationship between matter and void, light and shadow, depth and peak, delineating the contours of each of the planes that make up the work. The materials with which he works are varied, but he feels a great attraction for alabaster, plaster and metals.