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Reader LXXI, 2025
Sculpture : wood, paper · 30 x 13 x 7 cm 11.8 x 5.1 x 2.8 inch
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About the artwork
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Sculpture : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
30 x 13 x 7 cm 11.8 x 5.1 x 2.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
Figure inspired by Logan Pearsall Smith's quote, “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
This phrase highlights the profound relationship between reading and leadership.
Reading as the foundation of knowledge.
A leader must understand the world around them: its challenges, its history, its possibilities. Reading provides access to other people's experiences, diverse ideas, and historical perspectives that broaden one's personal horizons. Through reading, a person accumulates not only facts, but wisdom. And leadership without knowledge becomes direction without purpose.
Developing critical thinking
Good leaders do not accept things at face value; they question, analyze, and decide. Reading stimulates this ability. Whether through novels, essays, biographies, or science, each text is mental training that teaches us to connect ideas, detect fallacies, and evaluate arguments.
Empathy and understanding of others
A leader not only leads, but also inspires and understands those around them. Literature, in particular, allows us to live other people's lives, put ourselves in their shoes, and learn about different realities. This cultivates empathy, a key quality in human and ethical leadership.
Reading as a driver of transformation
Many renowned leaders in politics, science, social movements, art, etc., have been, first and foremost, passionate readers. What they read gave them the language, vision, and conviction to act and change their environment. Reading does not automatically create leaders, but it does sow the seeds of change in them.
Logan Pearsall Smith's quote reminds us that leadership does not begin with speeches or authority, but with the humility to sit down and read and learn. Today a reader... tomorrow a leader. Because every page read is a step towards a clearer mind, a stronger voice, and a clearer vision.
Presentation
The central themes of his pieces revolve around reading. José Manuel, through his figures of geometric lines in unrepeatable scenarios, seeks to transmit various emotions with the reader. His creative compositions are mainly based on wood.
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