Óscar Seco

Utopia | Óscar Seco

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Measurements

114 x 146 cm

Discipline

Pintura

Styles

Arte figurativo

Supports

Lienzo

Techniques

Acrílico

Year

1995

Unique work

In private collection

Labyrinths and utopias is a series of paintings by Oscar Seco where labyrinthine forms, almost becoming his hallmark, reappear obsessively; these are sinuous or geometric patterns reminiscent of typical puzzles where you have to find your way out of a maze, giving his compositions an extraordinary sense of movement. Alongside them appears his hyperbolic fauna composed of cows, pelicans, deer, camels, swans, armadillos, rhinoceroses, which twist into contorted shapes or are drawn based on silhouettes evoking the engravings of old naturalists; human figures and cyborgs, veering into kitsch, and entrails that stretch as if made of elastic. References to the present also abound, with images of computers or actual CDs, the latter glued directly to the canvas.

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Óscar Seco develops a critical pictorial practice that subverts historical, political, and social narratives through a hybrid iconography that combines war tradition, comic book aesthetics, and apocalyptic imagery. His dense and narrative compositions integrate historical references and dystopian scenarios with a fragmented visual structure loaded with symbolism. Formally, he combines rigorous drawing with parodic and grotesque elements, creating a tension between artifice and content. His color palette alternates between saturated palettes and black and white, always depending on the visual discourse. Conceptually, his work operates through symbolic revisionism, questioning the mythologies of power, collective memory, and structural violence through irony, appropriation, and anachronism.

Financial information

Signature value

28.82 ¢/cm2

Accum. revaluation

44.13 %

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