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   CASTRO, 2007 BRONZE 30,5X38,5X17,5 IN. | 78X98X45 CM.     FREUD, 2007 BRONZE 22,5X9,5X16 IN. | 57X25X41 CM.

       Nowhere is this more powerfully and poignantly portrayed in “Holocausto”,   Appropriately, the artwork was donated by Maestro Sacal to Museum of
       which depicts a crucified male figure hanging upside down against a   Tolerance in California.Meeting Jose Sacal at a private reception organized
       metallic framework wrought into a star of David. Deep lines punctuate the   at Puerta Roja by Adriana, I asked the maestro how he makes his sculpture,
       victim’s from the torso down to the abdomen, as if ripped open by some   which he described to me as a very emotional process – verily a communion
       industrial instrument of torture. The narrative of this statue is self-evident   between the artist and his subject. It is thus that the artist gives his heart
       and powerful, yet the message is one of toleration and forgiveness, with the   and soul to his creation, making it come to life not as an object, but as a
       crucifixion serving as a visual reference to the sacrifice of Christ. Through   living artwork the same way Pygmalion breathed life into his statue. And
       the Apollonian power of art, we are reconciled to the universality of human   as I set my eyes on the statuette “Aguiano” – a homage to the maestro’s
       suffering, and in the most profound sense possible, “existence and the   friend and one of Mexico’s greatest artists of the 20th century, Maestro Raúl
       world are justified through art” as the mad genius Nietzsche proclaimed.   Aguiano – I was both surprised and astonished.

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