Hermann Guggiari
| Hermann Guggiari | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Hermann Bruno Guggiari |
| Born |
March 20, 1924 Asunción, Py |
| Died | January 1, 2012 (aged 87) |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, Sculptor |
Hermann Guggiari (20 March 1924 – 1 January 2012) was a Paraguayan engineer and sculptor.
Guggiari was born in Asunción, Paraguay the son of Ana Brun and Pedro Bruno Guggiari, considered by many the most remarkable among the mayors of Asunción. He completed his elementary and high school education in the San Jose School of Asunción and his engineering studies in Buenos Aires where he also graduated as a sculptor at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes “ Ernesto de la Cárcova”, coming into contact with artists Libero Badii, Alicia Peñalba, Lucio Fontana and Curatella Manes and learning to value the avant-garde movements of the time.
After the bloody civil war of 1947-1954 in Paraguay, Guggiari’s liberal and democratic ideas gained him exile, cultural emargination and imprisonment on several occasions, during the thirty-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.
The lack of an official national art fair in Paraguay led him to create the “Bosque de los artistas”, in his own property, a fair which opened every Christmas from 1970 to 1995 becoming a Must of artistic creators, reaching a participation of 250 artists in the last editions.
Guggiari's body of work is large and has won prizes. Some have freedom as the central theme: ”Hungria o Libertad“, which received a special mention in the V Bienal of São Paulo (1959); ”Kennedy”, which obtained the first prize in sculpture in the Salon Esso of Young Artist of Latin America, organized by the OEA (1965): ”Rejas”, inspired in the prisons of the Stronist dictatorship; ”NNUU”, a seven meters structure, which is located at the entrance of the Dachau concentration camp (Germany) and symbolizes the United Nations in a form near the building of the NNUU,with perforations as wounds in two fronts-United Nations as a name, because the violence of the world continues-and as a sign of hope in each hole of the violence, a nest of real pigeons as a murmur of peace (199).
Another theme is the vital, between to be and stop being. In this line there is ”Parto”, with a message of transcendence despite the pain, ”Inmanencia”, and “Del polvo eres y polvo seras”.
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