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Sebastian Estivill
Cartography of thought
The rigorous scientific principles of engineering and the experience of moments that seem suspended between the real and the impossible recreate the essential paradox in Sebastián Estivill's art.
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This work arises from a personal journey deeply marked by two fundamental pillars in Sebastián's life. First, engineering:
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"As an engineer, I have dedicated my life to responding and anticipating catastrophic situations, such as the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico," says Sebastián. “Since then, I have worked on developing strategies and technologies to respond to and mitigate the effects of disasters.“
Second, the spirit: "This sum of experiences has allowed me access to unique places and moments, where conventional logic dissolves and reality manifests itself in its rawest form."
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During his education, Sebastián learned that, under certain conditions, matter can transcend its known limits, ceasing to be liquid or gaseous to become a unique substance with hybrid properties that defy our usual logic. We know this state as “supercritical,” and it has been a constant source of fascination for him.
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“This has led me to ask myself: What would a supercritical state of human consciousness be like, and all that it entails?”
"From this perspective, my work seeks to navigate our existence, celebrating its paradoxes and its beauty. Therefore, this series is structured as a visual narrative that explores energetic exchanges and their temporal relationships. Through symbolic horizons, I propose a geometry of symbiosis between time and energy, where human perception constantly dwells in what I have come to call Fluxum Temporis. A notion that, far from being linear, manifests as a cloud of entropic paths originating in the understanding of our present and projecting itself toward the imaginable,” Sebastián comments on his own work."
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"In it, the ambiguity of the past resides in memory, and that of the future in the imagination. Each oil painting is a map, a window, a mirror that invites the viewer, in their own time and circumstance, to explore and lose themselves in the tempests of color and rediscover themselves in the abysses of their own imagination."
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Sebastian seeks to generate a series of gateways to language, which take on different meanings according to the times in which they are observed.
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“In my work, I aspire to portray and contribute to the multiple languages ​​that, throughout the centuries, have attempted to crystallize the human experience.” Language, that invisible and very much our own technology that spans the centuries, a thread of intertwined voices, leaving a record of its time in the architecture of our words.”
Life and Carrer
Sebastián Estivill was born in Mexico City in 1993. He graduated as a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), and furthered his education at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary. Later, he earned a master’s degree in Disaster Management Administration from the University of Copenhagen (KU) in Denmark, solidifying a strategic and humanitarian vision.
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In 2017, following the earthquakes that struck southeastern Mexico, Sebastián directed his knowledge toward volunteer assistance, coordinating efforts between civil society and authorities. This experience revealed his leadership abilities and led to the creation of the Volunteer Intelligence Center (CIV), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing technology and strategies for disaster prevention and response.​
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His creative curiosity has driven him to apply solutions in extreme contexts: from designing an agricultural cable car in the mountainous jungle of the Dominican Republic to developing advanced mapping systems. At the same time, he has cultivated the art of fencing from an early age at the Mexican Association of Historical Fencing (AMEA), teaching and practicing this art in Hungary, Canada, Denmark, and England.​​
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Although his artistic journey began far from conventional paths, he chose engineering as a means to build the tools that would allow him to express his creative vision. His work has been showcased in Montreal, London, and Mexico City, reflecting a perspective that intertwines technique, sensitivity, and purpose. Although his artistic journey began far from conventional paths, he chose engineering as a means to build the tools that would allow him to express his creative vision. His work has been showcased in Montreal, London, and Mexico City, reflecting a perspective that intertwines technique, sensitivity, and purpose.
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Driven by quiet conviction and boundless imagination, Sebastián Estivill moves fluidly between science, art, and philosophy—building solutions that don’t just fix problems, but spark deeper questions about purpose, ethics, and what it means to be human.
Retro-Renaissance
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Mission:
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The Mission is simple and its complexity lies in its execution of thought and form. RE-return on the path that humanity has traveled. RE-remember our origin and seek to RE-link with it. In the process RE-value who we are and what we have. To RE-invent our Future by RE-taking our Past and thus RE-living our Present.
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Vision:
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Within the little we know, humanity has traveled more than twelve thousand years of recorded history and three hundred and fifteen thousand years as a species on this planet. In that time we have gone through a series of stages marked by strong energy exchanges that have been reflected in how we have modified our way of living and the environment we inhabit. The human eras can be seen Re-flected by the evolution of our vehicles of expression, Art.
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We Retrorenaissance believe that we have reached a saturation point in the way we advance as humanity. That in order to continue advancing, it is time to Go Back on everything we have learned as a species. Retro-Renaissance artists are artists who, from various fronts of human knowledge, seek to re-explore everything that makes us human, retracing our creative steps, re-taking the teachings of each historical stage of human learning and re-living it by synthesizing it in our work in the context of the present. The Retro-Renaissance works can be read individually, but they make more sense in their narrative by complementing each other. A dialogue between works, times and creators. The Retrorenaissance vision is to act in the present to leave a message to future generations using total art as a vehicle, in order to continue advancing as a species in harmony with everything that surrounds us and everything we create.
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