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Guggiari, Hermann
(b Asunción, 1924). Paraguayan sculptor. He studied sculpture under Vicente Pollarollo in Asunción and from 1943 at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova in Buenos Aires. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he dealt with local political and social themes, but his style became progressively simplified and centred on the significant properties of materials and the sculptural possibilities of form, until he reached a strongly expressive abstraction that confirmed him as the central figure of modern sculpture in Paraguay. His principal materials were iron and steel, which were torn apart in dramatic gestures to suggest that man’s existence is a search for liberty. This poetic of breaking and rending was a constant element in Guggiari’s work throughout his career. It appears, for example, in Christ (steel, h. 4 m, 1969; Asunción, Santa Cruz) and in Kansas (iron and stone, 1980; Hays, KS, Fort Hays State U.).
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