When Zeus ordered Hefesto to moisten clay with water and model a nubile woman, to which Hermes would give life, he ignored that many centuries afterwards José Seguiri would create the Calipso Suite. The magical ceremony of sculptures in oil and physical presences of terracotta delighted in white, modelled by the accredited talent of an artist who stamps his works with the spontaneous sensuality of a recreational and expressly carnal beauty. Seguiri obtains this, conjuring the minoic and the classic by mastering the drawing of sculptural lines reminding of Ingres, the purified inheritance of Picasso, Balthus and Maillol with their personal poesy of gesture in movement, to achieve the extraordinary communicative power of a dialogue between aesthetic and lightness, balance and volume. The triad of which Seguiri lets arise the fascinating evanescence and the allegoric relief of some beautiful pieces of amazing naturalness, of surfaces with a smooth quality, expressing at the same time a suggestive lyricism and a subtle hedonistic irony.This way it shows the excellence of the works' ensemble which connects pregnant and volatile women in their devotion to the pleasure of an erotic game, with Cupidos, Eros and lovers, in which the bodies extend to occupy the space of the other one, where they bend of the caresses they possess - or want to possess, awarding a corporeal nature to the Dionysian entourage and the initiation open for the exaltation of life. Apart from that, there stand out - because of their formal brilliance and symbolic resonances - the linen reflecting the thread and the tempus fugit of the love volumes and the mythic evocation of the heroic. That is why now, watching the harmonic feminine volumes, the heroic heads of an architectural dimension and totem-like enigma, you have the strange impression that they give off the whispering of the previous contact with their fictitious skin and that the relation they show, faced with an event, are actually a sequence insinuating a next action which varies between the idyllic, an unstable sensuality and a mischievous eroticism.Maybe because of the astonishing mental vitality, breathed by the sensibility and the artistic talent of Seguiri, it is not surprising that many think, as soon as the viewer's eyes stop to scrutinize the pieces, as soon as the gallery closes or the works return to the artist's studio, the sculptures take up again in liberty their game linked to desire and life.   

October 2003