Here is what one of Mexico's most celebrated sculptors, FEDERICO SILVA said about my work: The sculptures of 0liver Tiura are compressed, compact, sleeping masses that seem to awake from a brief sleep and slowly extend their "arms" as if they wish to invade the surrounding space and establish a permanent dialogue with their environment. 0liver Tiura, like other artists of these decades, is obsessed with the idea of movement. He achieves it mainly by means of an intimate and invisible structure that animates the skeleton and the skin of his forms, although he also does it by the accumulation of changing reflections that the polished surface of his sculptures gather from mutations of light and by their “multidirectional" character. They are like reptiles that grasp on earth, moving about at the same time within their molecular frames endeavoring to expand, rise up and breathe, as if they were a synthesis of a conflict between earthly and aerial forces, between solid rigidity and elasticity. They seen to rise up heavily, almost painfully, the weight of their arms struggling against gravity, their erect posture a triumph of will, since they have emerged from the earth in order to be free. These are sculptures that dialogue with each other, indifferent to the spectator. They do not need anyone to see them, admire them or interpret them; they need only a space to possess and dominate, a floor to grasp and a view that allows them to contemplate the horizon. What is the source of Oliver Tiura's work? Is it the woods of Finland or the lakes of Canada? Is it linked to the smoothness of Brancusi or to the Mezo-American forms of Henry Moore? The limits of art are now within man instead of being determined by geography or history. 0liver Tiura, cloaked in his doubts, his timidity and his pride, works patiently and awaits to impose his inner visions and multiply them through shared concepts and emotions. Very soon, when financial support and official decisions make possible the conversion of models to monumental works, then what Tiura proposes and has already achieved on a small scale will stand before us as a forceful testimony of beauty and as a contribution in the enrichment of human life." n.b. Beloved Federico Silva has now been given the great distinction of having the first Museum of Contemporary Sculpture Gallery in Latin America named after him in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.