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Raymundo Sesma is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, whose main technical resources are painting, sculpture and video. His pictorial work has taken on interesting forms of exploration and execution. For example, he has used painting to delve into an abstraction of Braille, a visual language he came to know when his father went blind. In his work this codified system loses its primary meaning and is used to highlight details and direct the eye of the spectator.
Raymundo Sesma’s recent work is essentially pictoric, exploring a variety of supports, with a particular eye for architecture. His expanded series of paintings, the “Campos expandidos” as he calls them, dialogue with urban spaces and try to relate every intervention with its context, going beyond the two-dimensional edges of the canvas to explore every surface in a different way.
His latest series of expanded paintings on urban architecture, buildings, bridges, factories and cultural complexes operates as documents on the apparently artificial interactions between nature and manmade structures; rare objects that are destined for conservation and study. The situations he has created combine the organic and inorganic, obtaining, in the end, impressive spaces and objects.
Among his most relevant exhibitions are Campo expandido VIII, intervention in situ, Alburqueque, USA, 2007; Campo Expandido VII, intervention in situ, Basle, Switzerland, 2007; Campo Expandido, Estudio Lofft, Mexico City, 2006; Causa y Efecto, Galleria Palladio, Lugano, Switzerland, 2006; Rojo Por Una Democracia Directa IX, MyOwnGallery, Milan, Italy, 2006; De la Series Causa y Efecto, Galería nina menocal, Mexico city, 2004; Galería Lattuada Studio, Milan, Italy, 2004; Meditativo, 1989-2003, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2003. His work has also been exhibited in the Museo de Arte Moderno Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, Merida; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Museo Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Židovské muzeum v Praze, Prague; Überseemuseum, Bremen; Museo de arte Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland. He has taken part in the Triennial Exhibition of Milan, in Italy, 2004 and has participated twice in the Biennial Exhibition of Venice, 1983, 1986. He has recently been awarded the 2007 Design Award by the American Institute of Architecture.
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