Sebastian Boesmi

Sebastian Boesmi ( 1980 ) describes his work as the study of the relationship between the micro and macro. Interested in our collective imagination, Sebastian believes that someone should see a work and relate to it, creating a new personal image that reflects something within themselves while somehow drawing from and adding to an abstract map of our collective understanding. He believes in the capacity of colour to transmit abstract emotions, in both the visceral and spontaneous gesture.

“When painting, I often don’t care what it represents, I’m more interested in the relationship between the many different images represented within. The various interpretations, the visceral and spontaneous gestures, the unthought in the expression of line and colour. I do not fear form and always try to reach the limit or the smallness of the surface. A painting is the result of many others, an evolution of my own language and why I paint. I know that art will not change the world, but hopefully I can change what someone thinks of it. We will never understand the work of an artist and that is why we should refrain from asking for explanations and rather get closer to the various manifestations of art for its aesthetic value and mainly by what...

2017 Painting workshop with Marshall Jones. The Art Students League of New York, N.Y.C., U.S.A.

2015 Seminary for Cultural Entrepreneurship in Germany. Instituto Cervantes, Berlín, Germany.

2009 Bachellor in Visual Arts. National University of Asunción, Paraguay.

2008 Woodcut and printing techniques. Brazilian Cultural Center in Paraguay.

2007 Painting and design. The Arts Students League of New York. Nueva York, EE.UU.


Recognitions
2013 Selected for the MARMA Art Proyects, Berlin, Germay.
2011 XXXVII Bancaja Foundation Art Contest, selected for the exibition in I.V.A.M., Valencia,
Spain.
2010 First Place of The art of give Nasta Creative Studio 2009,Asunción.,Paraguay. 2009 First place of the Henri Matisse Price. France Embassy in Paraguay.
2007 Second place on the Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin art, Asunción.,Paraguay.
2007 Second Place on the American Cultural Center in Paraguay Art Contest.
2004 First Mention on the Baviera joung Art Contest. Asunción.,Paraguay

' 2016 MEGAWATTS

This exhibition was in collaboration with the New York based artist Kazue Taguchi. Boesmi and Taguchi met in Paris in 2010 when Boesmi won the French Embassy in Paraguay Henri Matisse Prize and traveled to Paris for an artist residency at Cité des Arts I nternational. The exhibition will feature paintings, objects and light installations made with neon lights, led and experimental materials. Curated by Adriana Almada.

2015 FILOGENIA

Migliorisi Foundation - Museum del Brro Asunción, Paraguay. Retrospective exhibition organised by the German Embassy in Paraguay. In this show was exhibit 45 paintings made in Asuncion, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin and New York, places when the artist lived and worked. All of the artwork featured represents are part of private collections and been exposed for the comunity and after give it back to the owners. Curated by Damian Cabera.

2016 MESS IS MORE

Fábrica Art Gallery. Asunción, Paraguay.Introducing a new collection of paintings and neon lights in this second exhibition at the gallery , works that revolve around ironies about the famous phrase Less is More. Second exhibition in this Gallery founded in 1982. Curated by Fernando Moure, Köln, Deutschalnd.

2015 WELCOME...