Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.

Untitled V, 2011, Oil on canvas, 64 x 50 in. 162,5 x 127 cm

Untitled I, 2011, Oil on canvas, 64 x 50 in. 162,5 x 127 cm

Untitled X, 2010, Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in. 119 x 119 cm

Sergio Gutman at his Magic Squares Exhibition, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, 2011

Sergio Gutman was born on 1960, in Mexico City. He is a Constructivist artist, distinguished from other contemporary abstractionists by his quest to integrate his deep spiritual convictions within the formal, plastic elements of his canvases and wood constructions.

Gutman aspires to go beyond the aesthetic; he wants his paintings to be "objects for meditation." For him, lines, colors, and pure abstract forms are related linearly, as letters are in words.

Gutman studied philosophy at the University of Mexico and art in Barcelona at the EINA Institute where he met the Catalan painters Rafols Casamada, Joseph Guinovart and Federic Amat, who had a strong influence on his work.  It was at the Cercle Artistic Sant Lluc, where in 1985 he took life-drawing classes that he met the young artist Bruno Fonseca, the first son of Gonzalo Fonseca, a painter and sculptor from Uruguay, who worked with Torres-García in the 1940's.

It is not a coincidence that he found the writings of Torres-García so akin to his tendencies.  Philosophy and art have been Gutman's main interests, yet it took him time and considerable struggle to bring them together. 

The construction of his own artistic identity and plastic language caused him to search through his cultural and religious heritage. He has succeeded in creating works that integrate the spiritual within a Constructivist oriented aesthetic.  Sergio Gutman brings new life to this valuable tradition.