Exhibition of the Venezuelan Oswaldo Vigas comes to Bogotá Museum
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México. June 2015
The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (Mambo) opens this Thursday the exhibition Oswaldo Vigas. Anthological 1943-2013, with the participation of his widow Janine Castés and his son Lorenzo Vigas.
For MAMBO, this exhibition, which concludes on August 23, presents the Venezuelan artist as a “potent, precursor, polemical, strong, and vibrant” author.
Vigas, who painted until the day he died in April 2014, is an icon of Latin American painting for his connections with the pre-Hispanic world and the cosmogony of the ancestral man, “for his Americanist search and for achieving the universal in the local, the planetary in the universal.”
The plastic critics coincide in emphasizing that Vigas lives in his works and in the world plastic scene, always giving people a lot to talk about (...) “He did not adjust to fashions, he defended his concepts and ideals, but he especially defended painting, painting itself.”
“His unique and special language continues going through the borders and transcending from generation to generation, and it is the one that can be seen in the emblematic exhibition Anthological 1943-2013”, the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art indicates.
Vigas always found “the way to express what he wanted with absolute originality, ignoring the critique of every period, without deciding to follow one or another plastic current.”
“Abstraction and figuration, geometry, archetypes, nature, female figure, “unique and unrepeatable Brujas”, and worlds as fantastic and fascinating as his life and experiences” predominate in his work.