Xavier Mascaró

XAVIER MASCARÓ (Paris, 1965).
"Love". 2003
Acrylic on newsprint.
Measurements: 45 x 61, 5 cm.
Xavier Mascaró is a Spanish sculptor and painter born in Paris of French, Romanian and Catalan ancestry. He has lived in Madrid, New York, London and Mexico City. In 2002 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Spanish Academy in Rome. He currently lives and works in his studios in Mexico City and Lisbon. He has a great recognition by the critics and the public, having exhibited in major art centers in places like Paris, Caracas, Vienna, Monte Carlo, Cartagena de Indias, Madrid, New York and London, London, Madrid, Seville, in places as recognized (both in galleries and museums as in public spaces) as the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Royal Palace (Paris), the Kunsthistorische Museum (Vienna), Warehouse 421 (Abu Dhabi), the Marlborough Gallery (New York and Madrid), Paseo de Recoletos and Paseo del Prado (Madrid) and the Museo del Templo Mayor and the Cultural Center of Spain (Mexico City). In 2014 he had a solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Mascaró is one of Spain's contemporary sculptors with the greatest international presence "Mascaró's work refers to the human through the timeless, to what remains of who we were, or to what of who we are we recognize in our remote past. His artistic project formally transports us to the past, proposing, however, a multiplicity of readings that confront us with the present" as described by the Wurt Museum, who recently dedicated an exhibition to the artist.