José Saccone
Mind, Body and Soul

José Saccone, an artist from Buenos Aires, made a micro-Residency at ´ace in which he embarked on an artistic project that put into play various symbols of the oriental culture through woodcut, a discipline that he handles with great skill .

Saccone is an artist and graphic designer and he is in search of focusing his artistic work towards contemporary art questions and leaving the need for functionality that imposes graphic design.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The project that was conceived at ´ace was aimed, firstly, to generating set pieces randomly controlled, more linked to mathematics than to personal choices. Second, it had to do with the creation of the symbol. Before starting with the work, I had to establish some groundwork:

The syllogism:
1.The human being is set by Mind, Body and Spirit
2.The word is represented by Spot, Meaning and Interpretation
3.The man was created in the image and likeness of God
4.The word man was created in his image and likeness
5.The man invents the word to understand its creator

The depth that the work aims to achieve lies more on chance than on provocation or on the action of a mathematical mystic-like mechanism liuke the I Ching. If there’s anything that this project clearly wants is to set the rules of the game, not to interpret them.

In a way, I like to think that each of us can be represented by a symbol which, in turn, shows our qualities through an abstract image. The symbol that represents us is unique because it is configured with our personal data.