205 - XAVIER MASCARÓ (Paris, 1965).

XAVIER MASCARÓ (Paris, 1965). Untitled. Mixed media on paper. Signed in the upper left corner. Measurements: 28.5 x 40 cm; 33 x 44 cm (frame). Xavier Mascaró is a Spanish sculptor and painter born in Paris of French, Romanian, and Catalan descent. He has lived in Madrid, New York, London, and Mexico City. In 2002, he was awarded a fellowship to attend the Spanish Academy in Rome. He currently lives and works in his studios in Mexico City and Lisbon. He is highly regarded by critics and the public alike, having exhibited at major art venues in cities such as Paris, Caracas, Vienna, Monte Carlo, Cartagena de Indias, Madrid, New York, and London, as well as in Seville—in such renowned venues (including galleries, museums, and public spaces) as the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Palais Royal (Paris), the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), Almacén 421 (Abu Dhabi), the Marlborough Gallery (New York and Madrid), the Paseo de Recoletos and the Paseo del Prado (Madrid), and the Museo del Templo Mayor and the Centro Cultural de España (Mexico City). In 2014, he held a solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Mascaró is one of Spain’s contemporary sculptors with the strongest international presence. “Mascaró’s work refers to the human condition through the timeless—to what remains of who we once were, or to what we recognize of who we are in our distant past. His artistic project formally transports us to the past, yet offers a multiplicity of interpretations that confront us with the present,” as described by the Wurt Museum, which recently dedicated an exhibition to the artist.