The universe of the mask

      In all peoples, the mask is presented as an essential element to open a window beyond the everyday world. It could be said that it reflects the true face of each culture.

Putting a mask into action implies a direct confrontation with the deep roots of the cultures, their myths and legends, their fantastic, sacred and pagan characters, their history and social environment.

Both, its construction and its use require a refined and precise technique to awaken the spectator's imagination. The universe of the mask and the principles that govern it contain the ideal bridge between the plastic arts and the theatre, since its effectiveness is determined by the sculptural rigor of its form, together with a function and a context that give it its origin and raison to be.

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This research has led Bernardo Rey to develop an artistic proposal based on sculptures understood as "active objects", where each element interacts in space to communicate an idea. The techniques he uses are based on the recovery of old practices of manual crafts combined with new technological media and multimedia languages.

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In his pictorial, sculptural and installation research, he has often worked on the social, political and economic dynamics that implicitly or explicitly generate a dismemberment in the human being. The central theme of his work is the study of the effects of 'bio-politics' (M. Foucault).