This work for the artist has a very special meaning because it connects him directly with the emotion of a child. The work is born from a special bond with a child who captivated him by his demonstration of affection as he was waiting for him in the kinder garden to make art with his classmates. When that boy saw him, he hugged him and showed him his miniature dinosaurs that he carried with him. In that exchange the boy asked him: “When are you going to make dinosaurs?”
That same afternoon Gonzalo promised him that he would start sketching dinosaurs immediately, so he began to create possible scenarios, to study them…
“They invite me to be part of their world. Living up to them has its advantages. Boys love to play with dinosaurs. With them they acquire an understanding of the world and thus develop their cognitive abilities. At this stage of their lives they are playing, elucidating and delimiting the border between what is real and what is imaginary. My job as an artist is to always accompany them.”
Millions of years ago the dinosaurs were the great rulers of the world and everything was natural. They were later classified into two large taxonomic groups based on their hip structure. The lizard-hipped dinosaurs or saurischians and the bird-hipped dinosaurs or ornithischians.
Five species are observed in the work:
– A TYRANNOSAURUS REX
– A TRICERATOPS
– A PARASAUROLOPHUS
– A VELOCIRAPTOR
– A UNENGALIA COMAHUENSIS
The latter lived in Argentina, more precisely in the province of Neuquén.