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From pablo picasso’s guernica he made In Frida’s Kahlo case, the sculpture is
two sculptures: Crying woman where tears inspired by the character and in the art
are emphasized through the magnification piece. “They are two Fridas but not side-
of the eyelashes, and horse whose to-side as in his famous painting, which
suffering is expressed in the cuts and the would have been a boring solution. I put a
teeth. sacal says: “whenever we suffer we Frida behind the other one, each express
show our teeth. These sculptures served different character aspects: one mexican
me very much in my experience with the and one European. The difference between
mentally ill people, they always painted The Fridas is emphasized with the bronze
eyes and teeth, I try to avoid them because texture. sacal says: “zúñiga used textures
I feel that there are mental distortion in to express the indigenous; the texture is
them.‘’ the most mexican in the zúñiga’s work.”
There are occasions in which sacal seems The most exciting of José’s sacal
to get into the painting and looks inside. paraphrase is to watch how a mexican
Las meninas by Velázquez for example, the artist is renewing the universal sculptural
figure hangs as if she’s being chocked. As language. sacal is a vibrant artist, full of
we raise it, we see it from different angles ideas, has the skill and originality to open
and undress it; we peek at its intimacy. new roads and try things that have never
In other cases, paraphrases are portraits been done before. sacal’s art work is the
of the artist. There are two sculptures intelligence transformed into bronze.
dedicated to Dali. one is a character built
with forms of boxes; the other is a female * gregorio Luke, expert on mexican and
figure with the head of bricks. The bricks Latin American Art and Culture
for sacal mean construction.
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