Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, October 22, 2025 : Sebastián, a Mexican sculptor (#2398)

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Artist of the Day, October 22, 2025 : Sebastián, a Mexican sculptor (#2398)

Enrique Carbajal González (1947), known by his stage name Sebastian, is a Mexican sculptor specializing in monumental sculpture.

Enrique Carbajal “Sebastián” was born in Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua. Since the late 1960s he began to create a unique sculptural work in the Mexican and Latin American tradition. His constructive vocation, nourished by the principles of kinetic art, was initially expressed in the creation of transformable, or unfoldable, sculptures that he continued to work until developing various products.

With constructive vocation, since the mid-60s began developing his sculptural language supporting their work with scientific disciplines such as mathematics and geometry, approaching the topology and crystallography. The work of Sebastian is generated to the time when artistic trends such as scientism, minimalism, op-art, pop art, etc. originate, expressed and then with creations like his transformable structures, including their Leonardo4 works, Durero4, Brancusi4, mathematical models transformed into sculpture, where the digit mentioned refers to the fourth dimension, these works are proof of its concern participatory art, fundamental concept of his first artistic motivations.

It is then when he defines his vocation as a large-format sculptor, causing urban projects where the viewer interaction is the main actor. In 1970 he published his World's Largest Sculpture, being then only a conceptual manifesto sought the creation of such a large sculpture that kasbah hardly be contained by the globe and only peeped some parts of it at certain points. Being a sculptor urban monumental work, today Sebastian has made this project with more than 200 urban works in different parts of the world.

His production mainly covers urban monumental sculpture and architectural design, painting, design objects, furniture, public art, jewelry, theatrical costume design, set design, multimedia shows, etc. Currently combines his artistic work with research and teaching at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, both at Mexico City, where he teaches Sculpture Workshop and Visualization and Multimedia.

Sebastian has been recognized with numerous awards since his youth. Was elected as a member of the Academy of Arts in The Hague, in the Netherlands in 1983. He has presented exhibitions of his works in major museums in Mexico; at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Palacio de las Bellas Artes, in the Tamayo Museum and the Museum of Science and Arts of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Palacio de Minería and the Museum of San Ildefonso. He is currently a member of the Mexican Academy of Arts, Member of the Legion of National Honor has received awards such as La Medaille de la Ville de Paris, the Jerusalem Prize, among other awards, and numerous awards for his work in Mexico and Japan.
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