Interview with Xavier Mascaró

22/09/14

Xavier Mascaró: Departure

Saatchi Gallery, London
3 September – 5 October 2014

Despite being hailed as one of the world’s leading Latin American contemporary sculptors, Xavier Mascaró is currently enjoying his debut solo exhibition in the UK at the Saatchi Gallery in London. His work, made from rusted iron and oxidised bronze, fragile aluminium and cracked ceramic, fills two of the top-floor galleries and spills out of the front entrance, where his enormous crouching Guardians (2010) greet visitors like the terracotta army.

Fascinated by the iconography of ancient cultures, Mascaró travels a lot, and this feeds into his work in many ways. His own story is one of a path less travelled (in his family, at least) and, crediting art with saving his life as a young teenager, he is taking part in a contemporary art auction, Be Inspired, in aid of the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.

To read the interview, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/xavier-mascaro-departure-saatchi-gallery-iron-sculpture-be-inspired-auction