Artist: Agustin CardenasTitle: TotemYear: 1983Medium: Marble SculptureDimensions: 23 x 25 x 87.5 cmEdition: Unique work"Created in 1983, Totem reflects Agustín Cárdenas’s mature sculptural language, where organic abstraction and symbolic form converge. By this stage, Cárdenas had fully developed a vocabulary rooted in smooth, elongated volumes that evoke the human figure while remaining resolutely abstract.Carved in marble, the work emphasizes verticality and balance, drawing on totemic and archaic references that recur throughout the artist’s practice. The polished surface and continuous flow of form highlight Cárdenas’s sensitivity to material and rhythm, transforming the stone into a quiet, meditative presence. This sculpture exemplifies his ability to merge modernist abstraction with a sense of timeless, ritualistic symbolism."