Works by Roger Sanguino
Venezuelan artist Roger Sanguino, based in Spain, presents the work that, from classical sculpture on a path towards painting, he has been developing in recent years, marked by a discourse that refers to the human being, the importance of the portrait, the expression of the body, and the urban space. As for the formalization of the work, in the technical part lies what has been fundamental in the final construction of the work: The metal and its possibilities. Through the use of rods and piano wire, and later bolts and nets, all these possibilities of steel gave rise to a dialogue between painting and sculpture, generating a bridge between painting and sculpture, creating a bridge between the two disciplines both disciplines through conceptual and formal foundations.
With the body and the portrait as axes, this crossroads begins where the use of mixed techniques determines the structure of the work. On the plane and the volume appear different strokes; stains and primitive lines that give shape to the character, together with a framework that floats over it as a reticule, giving character, together with a lattice that floats on it as a grid, giving rise to a metallic framework with which the urban or everyday landscape, a framework that in turn, helps to organize structures, defines limits and structures, defines limits and contents from a geometric vision where the void also participates. With all this intervention carried out on the portraits, a process begins that leads to the disruption of the concepts of identity, becoming altered, modified, giving rise to new concepts of identity, becoming altered concepts, modified, giving rise to new identities.