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"Fianchetto dello Spirito Santo" Painting

Francisco Guevara

Mexico

Painting, Encaustic on Other

Size: 36.2 W x 48 H x 0.8 D in

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$9,480

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Fianchetto dello Spirito Santo is an encaustic portrait of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, crafted with cochineal and marquetry of fine woods—materials that mirror the union of faith and empire. The title, borrowed from a chess strategy, evokes Loyola’s calculated role in advanc...

Year Created:

2024

Subject:
Mediums:

Painting, Encaustic on Other

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

36.2 W x 48 H x 0.8 D in

Ready to Hang:

Yes

Frame:

Brown

Authenticity:

Certificate is Included

Packaging:

Ships in a Crate

Delivery Cost:

Shipping is included in price. An agent fee may be required to process the shipment due to Mexico's export policy.

Delivery Time:

Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.

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Handling:

Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.

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Mexico.

Customs:

Shipments from Mexico may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.

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Francisco Guevara is a visual artist, independent scholar and curator based in Mexico and Peru. He specializes in Levinasian ethics applied to the design of cross-cultural artistic projects, and the analysis of performativity in contemporary art practices. His experience spans more than 25 years of designing, curating, and managing art projects through visual arts education, and international cooperation to promote social change. His essays and critical texts focus on place and history as ideological distortions, and address subjects such as contemporary art practices, historiography of art, and the artist residency field, and have been featured in numerous international publications. As of 2009, Guevara is co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Arquetopia, a non-profit foundation and transnational artist residency program promoting Development and social transformation through educational, artistic, and cultural programs. As a visual artist, Guevara investigates the historical construction of the differentiation processes, embodiment, and the concept of distortion through a wide range of artistic/historical mediums, including painting, installation, and metalsmith. Protégé of Dolores Olmedo Patiño his work can be found in important private and public collections. He has participated in multiple collective exhibits and had nineteen solo shows, including the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque Museum and University of New Mexico in the U.S., and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia. His work can be found in important private and public collections such as: Fundación Colección Jumex, Dolores Olmedo Museum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek-Pinault Collection, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II Private Collection, Denmark, among others. His residencies and honors include THE LAND/an art site, Youkobo Art Space Japan, and the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, both New Mexico and Albuquerque.

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