Jorge Seguí

JORGE SEGUÍ (Misiones, 1945).
"Fantasies, dreams and promises", 1989- 1991.
Mixed media, cardboard, handmade paper and collage.
Measurements: 80 x 61 x 10 cm.
Sergio Seguí sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Since 1974, he lives in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at the Figueroa Alcorta Provincial School of Fine Arts and at the free workshop of painting and sculpture at the School of Arts of the National University, both located in Córdoba. In 1969, he received the First Prize at the Salón Juvenil de Artes Plásticas de Córdoba, and in 1970, the Radio LT9 Prize at the Salón de Santa Fe. In 1977, he won the Premio Gobernación de Caracas at the Salón Avellán del Ateneo de Caracas, and in 1984, he won the Premio Ciudad de Córdoba at the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Genaro Pérez de Córdoba, as well as the Premio Fondena and the Segunda Bienal Nacional de Escultura at the Museo Francisco Narváez de Isla Margarita, Venezuela.
Seguí presents his works frontally, resembling a painting, almost without the need to be observed from different angles. The construction of volume and space alludes to the absurd and the imaginative, similar to the painting of the New Figuration, in which Eugenio Espinoza has also been active. Seguí creates a complex imagery that arises from his philosophical investigations. His sculptures represent a phenomenal idealization, a fusion of the masculine and the feminine, exploring the universal mythological archetypes of man and woman in a broad sense.
His series of "fake heroes", entirely developed in Miami, consists of an assemblage where the torsos of two faceless and classless figures stand out, symbolically doubling in two facets. These figures ride a horse that is also duplicated, with two heads and two haunches. It is an unfolded being that reflects on itself. Jorge Seguí dominates the representation of the sinking of the faces, which symbolizes the mask, a recurring element in the artist's work.