Labyrinths & utopias

Labyrinths & utopias

Labyrinths & utopias is an Oscar Seco paintings serie where laberynthine forms, becoming almost his seal of identity, crop up again and again in an almost obsessive way; these are sinuous or geometric patterns than recall the typical pastimes where you have to find your way out of a maze, endowing his compositions with a extraordinary sense of movement. Alongside them appear his hyperbolic fauna made up by cows, pelicans, deer, camels, swans, armadillos, rhinos, wich trail off into writhing forms or are drawn on the basis of silhouettes than conjure up the engravings of the old naturalists; human figures and cyborgs, veering on kitsch, and innards that strech as though made of elastic. References to the present also abound, with images of computers or real CDs, the latter stuck directly to the canvas.