ALFREDO SÁBAT: Mythological
Curator: Cristina Santa Cruz
ZINK Salon Privé®, Buenos Aires, Argentina
From September 1 to October 9, 2022
OPENING WEEKEND: September 1,2, and 3, 2022
Exhibition by appointment
(...) This is how Alfredo Sábat tells it in his paintings. The eye of the artist not only sees but makes people see. Its sensitivity perceives what is hidden (or what it is trying to hide), illuminates the corners, defines areas that remained hidden and gives us the joy of discovery, amazement and beauty. Those plastic forms of truth.
About the artist and his work
ALFREDO SÁBAT
Alfredo Sábat is a multifaceted artist with sophisticated skill. "Cartoonist. Painter. Cartoonist. Journalist. Graphic designer. Animator. Sometimes a musician. And several more etcetera.” This is how it is defined.
He was born in 1966 in Montevideo, Uruguay and has lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina since then. He studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires, later working in this area and in illustration, both advertising and editorial, in media such as the newspaper Clarín and the magazines Playboy (USA), Playboy (Argentina), Caras and Caretas and Barcelona , in addition to numerous media outlets from the US, Germany and Japan.
In 1997 he received the Abril Prize for Editorial Illustration in Brazil for a cartoon made for Playboy magazine, Argentina.
Together with his father Hermenegildo, he co-directed the visual arts magazine Selección Áurea .
From June 1997 to July 1999 he served as Illustrations Editor and illustrator of Trespuntos magazine. His work in the latter medium earned him the First Prize for Cartooning awarded by ADEPA (Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities) in 1998.
As a plastic artist, since 1996, he has held six individual exhibitions of oil paintings and sculptures in Argentina, and a group exhibition in New York in 2006. His 2007 individual exhibition at the Atica Gallery was called Teatro Olimpia and consisted of personal interpretations of Greek Myths.
In 1998, following designs by Hermenegildo Sábat, he created the “Gardel” trophy awarded annually by CAPIF (Argentine Chamber of Producers of the Phonographic Industry) to Argentine Music.
Starting in July 1999, he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the newspaper La Nación , an activity he continues to this day.
In 2005, together with Hermenegildo Sábat, Carlos Nine and Oscar Grillo, he created murals for the new “H” subway line, inaugurated in 2007 in Buenos Aires. In October 2006, the murals he created for the “Inclán” station were presented, dedicated to the tango singer Azucena Maizani.