"ROUND TRIP", THE TRANSMEDIA POETICS OF SEBASTIÁN BOESMI EXHIBITED IN ASUNCIÓN 2023

Argentine-Paraguayan visual artist Sebastián Boesmi is presenting his work "Ida y Vuelta" at a gallery in Asunción, a transmedia narrative that includes painting, sculpture and digital displays, and that explores the multiple dimensions of art through the concept of collective imagination and iconography.

The exhibition, curated by Paraguayan Fernando Moure, delves into the transition of formats and expressive media, in which line and three-dimensionality are fused, in addition to animated and sound images.

"This project consists of a technical back-and-forth, a transmedia poetics, between the pieces and between the collections that are present," Boesmi told EFE.

"Round Trip" consists of two series of works projected at different times, called "Unidigital" and "Imaginary Graffiti", which establish a close relationship and which, according to the artist, "feed each other".

In "Unidigital", which the artist began creating in Madrid in 2019, the works stand out for their color and "the need to express the forces that operate between everyday experience and the relationship with technology and nature, also exploring abstraction in some cases."

While in "Imaginary Graffiti" the graphic component is present in "large masses of iconography, signs and symbols that converge in agglomerations of information to be traversed and decoded with the gaze," he said.

Regarding the sculptures, Boesmi reveals that they are "abstract" works that are part of a series that began in Asunción and in which he makes use of light on glass, which allows him, in his words, to go from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.

"I'm interested in the work engaging the viewers. In the work making them question themselves, and I'm also interested in rescuing the aesthetic component that's so forgotten and somewhat neglected in contemporary art," he expressed.

Boesmi, who has lived in Madrid for four years, emphasizes the importance of breaking with the prevailing materialistic conception in society. "This work is complex because we are immersed in a very materialistic culture, very focused on objects."

The exhibition will be open to the public at the Matices gallery in the Paraguayan capital until May 24th.