In El Salvador, sculpture is not widely used. Before the 1960s, we find the name of Valentin Estrada, a traditional sculptor trained in Spain. After 1963, Spanish artist Benjamin Saul set up an academy among his own peers, now counting on such big-time sculptors as Leonidas Ostorga, the man who established El Salvador’s only bronze casting plant. There’re very active groups of Salvadoran sculptors in Los Angeles, whose works can be pigeonholed in customary and primitive art. Among those artists, the figures of Fausto Perez, Rafael Escamilla and Eduardo Alfaro should be considered seriously. In San Francisco, California, there’s another group strongly influenced by Chicano and Latin American movements.
