Joselito Sabogal- Peru

BIOGRAPHY

Sabogal, Born in Cajamarca and raised in Trujillo, Sabogal studied at Macedonio de la Torre School of Art in Trujillo and later in France at Lemons School of Art. He then studied in Helsinki, Finland.

He builds a symbolic, surreal world, in which drawing is essential. He outlines details, highlights the lines that define faces, seeks to capture an animistic world, of spirits, longings, feelings and observations.

Sabogal’s paintings are elegant, sensual, and extracted from his mental universes and of his states of conscience. His work introduces great complexity pulling together several concepts that clearly arise from the world of dreams.

There is an element that is not free of irony in his work. Sabogal uses symbols to create a world of allegorical appearances, using human figures who have an elaborated character, extrapolating its contents, its souls. He transmutes forms, adopting animals as if they were human personages, and feminine figures as if they were symbols. 

Sabogal cultivates the discipline of drawing and presents to us his facility in using the color by zones, here and there, nourishing shades, expressing details and in so doing creates magical world.

His work results in unreal worlds, formed by beings who are half men half animals, with landscapes that do not exist more than in their essential forms, trees that are geometries, skies that are walls, forms in the space that have replaced the clouds. One is left with the sensation of floating, or of weightlessness as he harnesses these surreal aspects.