The practice of this Valencian artist, with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Paris, is rooted in a new way of understanding contemporary sculpture materialised in quasi-minimalist sculptures with a patent geometric quality, made with iron sheets and rods worked using industrial processes.

These warriors  from 1989 clearly exemplify the artist’s process of formal refinement through the use of geometric planes and biased cuts. The result is the creation of slender pieces in consonance with the material qualities and the spirit initiated by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Julio González (1876-1942). He reinstates the old trade of the metal forger and combines it with the welder, and everything under a single conception of sculpture consisting of the direct transformation of metal into a visual image.

In these two sculptures Ginestar follows in the wake of Julio González, who was the first to use iron as a new material in art —a versatile, rough material which permits working with it directly through forging and welding. However, unlike Julio González, Ginestar instils his works with the possibility of a double reading, reducing form to the condition of a geometric element and endowing it with a purely artistic value.