Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Taco Gato,
2022
Zeta Yeyati
Painting : collage, mixed media
100 x 70 x 1 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€515
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Unique artwork
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Hand-signed by artist
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Dimensions cm • inch
100 x 70 x 1 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Mexico
Taco Gato obra de Zeta Yeyati a work that awakens visual play and emotional memory
Taco Gato obra de Zeta Yeyati emerges as a playful and deeply symbolic piece, where the image of the cat becomes a narrative core that ties together gestures, memories and intimate imaginaries. This mixed media work on paper (acrylic, stencil and collage), measuring 70x100 cm, stands out for its ornamental and harmonious composition. Paint stains, graphic lines and textured surfaces come together to construct an expressive scene. The feline figure, drawn with just a few lines and a striking gaze, takes center stage as a recurring character in Yeyati's visual storytelling. More than a reference to a childhood game, “Taco Gato" becomes a poetic gesture, an invitation into a whimsical narrative tinged with nostalgia and magic.
Rooted in an ethical approach to art, Zeta Yeyati's work reflects a vital philosophy based on recycling and the poetic transformation of discarded materials. The artist resists consumerism and embraces the reuse of objects like wood, metal and everyday items with history, granting them new life through art. In Taco Gato, this ethos is made tangible through the use of mixed media, resulting in a vibrant surface rich in meaning and memory. The color palette —yellow, black, red and blue— enhances the dynamic character of the scene without losing the quiet intimacy of a unique and recognizable visual language.
From sound to surface a creative path born of play and childhood
Zeta Yeyati, an Argentine visual artist, transforms the discarded into poetic imagery. While many recognize him as a musician, his artistic journey began in childhood through drawing and playful experimentation. His work bridges diverse worlds: the street and the studio, language and image, the forgotten object and the artwork.
Freedom as method in Taco Gato obra de Zeta Yeyati
Yeyati's creative process is both self-taught and intuitive. Though he trained briefly with renowned artists like Pujía, Ferrari and Aisemberg, his work defies formal classification. In Taco Gato obra de Zeta Yeyati, this freedom becomes apparent in the materials and techniques used. He employs collage, ceramics, stencil and assemblage as tools to shape his singular artistic voice. His figures, emblematic and minimal, inhabit scenes that invite the viewer to dream and remember. The piece resonates with a sense of humor and melancholy, creating a visual universe as honest as it is imaginative.
A piece that plays with the personal and the universal
Beyond its aesthetic qualities, Taco Gato obra de Zeta Yeyati offers an emotional experience. It invites the viewer to pause and uncover a layered narrative within the seemingly simple. Technique becomes emotional language, where textures, stains and colors speak of a gaze rooted in wonder and memory. This work is not only meant to be seen, but also to be felt. With its playful references, restrained gesturality and suggestive visual storytelling, the piece highlights art's capacity to turn the ordinary into something meaningful, enchanting and deeply human.
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Presentation
Zeta Yeyati (Burzaco, 1965) is a visual artist who has transformed recycling into a poetic language and forgotten matter into an act of aesthetic redemption. While the public has come to know him as a musician in projects like Los Intocables, La Mississippi, or Babel Orkesta, his true creative roots lie in the visual arts. Visual expression was his first terrain. Before the chords came drawing. Before the stages came interlocked tree trunks.
A restless and sensitive autodidact, Yeyati attended workshops with figures such as Antonio Pujía, León Ferrari, and Diana Aisemberg, yet his work doesn't follow any formal school. He moves freely between ceramics, collage, stencil, and assemblage. His aesthetic is nourished by what others discard: street posters, scraps of iron, furniture legs, bronzes, and aged wood. A dumpster was his first museum. Then came flea markets, where he continues to collect remnants for his unique pieces.
In his works, dogs, birds, musicians, queens, horses, and magicians coexist, as if each figure emerged from a story older than the object itself. His repertoire is populated by characters that rise from the collage with the force of a lucid dream. He does not seek to imitate reality but to reincarnate fragments of it. As curator Rodrigo Alonso described, his art is a “vital philosophy" — a gesture that defies consumerism and embraces the possibility of reviving the forgotten.
Color —present with striking intensity in his recent work— arrived through an internal shift: his encounter with Milo Lockett, which not only redefined his palette but also his way of sharing his universe. Since then, Yeyati's work pulses with a more playful energy, without losing its symbolic depth.
Yeyati does not merely create images —he builds an emotional archaeology from the remnants of everyday life. Each work is a story made of time, memory, and waste; a rescue act that restores humanity to matter. From that gesture —profoundly plastic and profoundly human— his art speaks to those willing to look beyond the surface.
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