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| (iPhoneography) Horse Head or The Little Horse (sculpture by Sebastian) In the background Caballito Tower - SAT Office (IRS) [Taxes Office]
Sebastián (born
Enrique Carbajal on November 16, 1947) is an artist based in Mexico, and is considered the
country's foremost living sculptor. His smaller scale work includes jewelry,
sacristies, garden sculptures, and painting. However, he is most known for his
monumental structures constructed in iron or concrete, which decorate cities
throughout the world, from San Antonio, Texas to Osaka, Japan.
Sebastián was born
in the small town of Santa Rosalía
de Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
on November 16, 1947. He lived in Chihuahua until he began studying in the
Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City
in 1964.
When studying in
Mexico City, he survived by working at restaurants and buying clothing to sell
it for a profit in Chihuahua.
He studied in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of
Plastic Arts) at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Persisting with deep
appreciation for Henry Moore
and Pablo Picasso,
he won first place in the 1965 Annual Exposition of the National Plastic Arts
School at UNAM.
In 1968 Sebastián had his
own show featuring his ceramic work in the Museum of Art of Ciudad Juárez. After
completing his formal studies he continued his work with short-lived schools
and movements such as the "Salon Independiente". He put on his second
individual exposition, where he displayed ostensibly simple paper carton works
that he called "desplegables" (folders). These seemingly small works
became the base of ideas for his later monumental works made with tons of iron
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Monumental Squatted Angel IV. 2006. Sculptor: Jorge Marin |
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(Sculptures by Jose Luis Cuevas)
The first thing we have to learn is that love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art. Maybe here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures: in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power - almost all our energy is used for learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving.
Extracts from - The Art of Loving - By Erich Fromm.
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| Monumental Embrace by Mexican sculptor Jorge Marin. 2006 |
