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POETICS OF ABSTRACTION - Exhibitions - GALERÍA RGR

Oswaldo Vigas
Con su sombra, 2009
 

Recognizing this universal Venezuelan is nowadays a task that forces Mexicans to pay tribute to him as one of the great artists who coined multiple sources of inspiration. This undoubted fact accounts for the variety of records reached in the pieces chosen for this exhibition. For the painter, the search of the ancestral is an eternal present, a fundamental source that nourishes his work.

In 1952 he won the National Prize for Plastic Arts, with his work La Gran Bruja, he challenged the structure of Venezuela, his country, and exerted an intellectual and artistic impact, which earned him a central role in the national plastic. facial and textile designs of the Wayuu culture, characterized by subtle geometric structures which influeced his work. This interest was typical of a generation and a continent that was meeting its cultural and spiritual essence.

Oswaldo Vigas. Poetics of Abstraction, gives a synthesis of 50 years of uninterrupted creation. The records run from the 1950s to 2009. The aesthetic construction of Oswaldo Vigas will surely be dazzling because of the overwhelming honesty reflected on  each of the 18 paintings and three sculptures in the exhibit, which we will appreciate in Mexico for the first time.

 

Curated by Carmen Gaitán Rojo
Director of the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)

Selected Works

Formas IV, 1955 Oil and Gouache on paper glued on board 41 7/10 × 31 1/2 in (106 x 80 cm) Unique

Cristo III, 1972, Oil on canvas, 51 1/5 × 31 9/10 in (130 × 81 cm)

Transfigurante III, 1972 Oil on masonite 39 2/5 × 27 3/5 in (100 x 70 cm) Unique

Oswaldo Vigas

Objeto Americano, 1955-1956

Oil on cardboard glued on masonite

53h x 76w cm

Unique

OV003

Objeto Americano, 1955-1956 Oil on paper glued on masonite 20 9/10 × 29 9/10 in (53 × 76 cm)

Objeto Negro I, 1954 Ink on paper, board on canvas 21 x 29 in (53.3 x 73.5 cm) Unique

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