Xavier Mascaró

Guardians, Bisons, Keepers and Walking Men : the monumental sculptures of Xavier Mascaro (Paris, 1965) cross continents and eras.

From Mexico to Havana, from the Saatchi Gallery in London to the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, his works capture attention with their delicate openwork structures in cast iron and other metals.

Massive, yet seemingly about to move, these archetypes bear powerful and poetic witness to the passage of time and the peoples on Earth.

In this monograph, Xavier Mascaro, who currently divides his time between Mexico and Spain, looks back over the last ten years of his works. Through a hundred photographs of his works, an essay and an interview with journalist and art critic Julie Chaizemartin, he shares his creative vision and his reflections on time and the figures that shape his world.

Xavier Mascaró was born in Paris in 1965. His family moved to Barcelona in 1968. As a self-taught artist, he created his first drawings and engravings at the age of 13. He joined the Barcelona School of Fine Arts in 1983 and graduated in 1988 with a specialty in painting.

It was in 1989 that he turned to sculpture and experimented with various materials: Glass, wood, plaster, ceramics, bronze, and tin. In 1995, he discovered the iron cast in an industrial foundry, which would become his favorite material, especially on his monumental works, expressing it as follows: “What attracts me to this material is the strength and warmth it transmits as much as its organic nature.”