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Jose saCaL

1944 born in cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
lives and works in Mexico city, Mexico

José sacal is a great contemporary sculptor. He is considered a valuable artistic investigator and his art
certainly appears to justify this label. As one gazes at his plastic ‘language’ one can see new juxtapositions
of the future and present in our daily life. since the 1990s, when he began working as an artist, his work has
been valued as a serious and very personal contribution to the worldwide sculptural arena, connecting him to
the abstract revolution in art, to scientism, minimalism, constructivism, and other important tendencies. With
his special talent to renew media, enlarge resources, and investigate materials and new elements sacal has
become an authentic voice internationally. He creates images that contain components of meditation, expe-
rience, and impact, through which the artist is able to astonish the spectator, pushing the viewer to participate
in a magnificent art adventure. sometimes referred to as a technical and plastic ‘magician’, sacal’s genius can
be seen in his original rhythmic use of elegant longitudinal shapes that accentuate the illusion of movement in
his forms. Metallic lines attract and repelled with brilliance that elicits astonishing reactions. Two fragmented
figures, put together with deep diagonal traces that fragment the surface with slow and vigorous elevations,
adduce an entity of multifarious encounters and possibilities that impact and multiply ones visual acuity. With a
cosmic vision that dignifies fantasy, José sacal creates dynamic figures that embody the perfect combination of
rhythm, action, time, speed, light, imagination, and geometry. The singular and precisely modulated cadency of
sacal’s sculptures results in an ambience of everlasting time, optic surprise, and a step forward in the conquest
of autonomy. (BerTA TArACenA, “MOVeMenT And TIMe”)
CIrCUlOs, 2002 Bronze 64 x 57 x 42 cM./ 25¼ x 22½ x 16½ in. 
 CONsTOrsIONIsTa, 2002 Bronze 53 x 19 x 11 cM./ 21 x 7½ x4½ in.

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