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 ARMADILLO, 2014 BRONZE 0,3X15,5X13 IN. | 1.00X40X33 CM.

 HIPO, 2008 BRONZE 21,5X14,5X9,5 IN. | 55X37X25 CM.
 ABERRACIONES, 2010 RESIN 28X20X15,5 IN. | 71X50X40 CM.
Sacal’s works can be extremely emotional, using sharp lines to
accentuate a sense of rupture in the soft contours of his human figurines,
like the deep furrowing lines that run across Frida Kahlo’s bust, like so
many cuts lacerating the artist’s deeply troubled life.
Yet the subject matter of Sacal’s works never veers far from the central And if we read more deeply into Sacal’s creations, one appreciates the
concerns of humanity – beauty, love, compassion, forgiveness – and subplot in the silent narrative of his immovable statues, and the myriad
looking at the Great Masters series, which feature such 20th century ways in which the artist subverts the discourse of modernism, and raises
luminaries as Frida Kahlo and Raúl Anguiano, there is an aura about searching questions about grandiose notions of progress, modernity and
these statuettes that is utterly chthonic and reaches deep into Mexico’s industrialization; and in doing so challenges the dominant discourse and
collective unconscious. idealistic assumptions behind the modernist style.

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