Sean Mackaoui

Sean Mackaoui - Cirque

Técnica: Collage on paper

Biografía del Artista: Sean Mackaoui (Lousana, 1969), legitimate heir of Schwitters, Duchamp, Man Ray or Joan Brossa, combines elements that at first glance seem incongruous in his collages and objects to generate new meanings, seeking surprise, humour and poetry in magazine clippings, newspapers or found words. More than combinations of elements, juxtapositions of iconographies, collages and objects give rise to new entities and realities, exposing new, surprising messages about society and the current political situation. Mackaoui plays with the deceptiveness of appearance, generating an environment of surprise, juxtaposing idyllic and apparently innocent images with other disturbing ones, reflecting on the relations of states and their power. His collages have been published in national and international magazines and newspapers. Book covers for the publishing houses Santillana, Espasa Calpe, Lengua de Trapo, Anaya and Temas de Hoy. Illustrations in the books Crimes Exemplaries by Max Aub and My First 80,000 Thousand Words by Media Vaca publishing house. He has created images for different brands, festivals, fairs and posters, among which those made in collaboration with Isidro Ferrer for the National Dramatic Center stand out. He has held multiple collective and individual exhibitions at national and international level. Among his individual exhibitions, the most notable is “Zoco” in 2008 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where he also held his first individual exhibition “Mundo Imagen” in 1995. Among his publications, the most notable is “La Garra de la Guerra” by Media Vaca, which won first prize for Best Edited Book in the Children’s and Young Adult Books category, awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 2003. He is Honorary Director of The Collage Center of San Francisco, USA.