Oswaldo Vigas: A necessary presence
Revista Valverde
Lima, Perú. October, 2014
Perú is the country where the traveling exhibition, Oswaldo Vigas, Anthological 1943 – 2013, dedicated to one of Venezuela’s most well known artists, opens next Thursday October 9th, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC)
Venezuelan writer Leonardo Padrón wrote on his social web account on April this year: “This time the stab was on an unrepeatable plastic artist. Oswaldo Vigas, a true master dies. My condolences for his family”.
Considered as one of the most well known plastic artists in his country and abroad, Vigas worked until the last moments of his life, putting special emphasis on the exhibition’s details that gets launched on October 9th at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC).
His presence was long awaited, but because of his departure, his widow Jeannine and his son Lorenzo, along with the curator Bélgica Rodríguez and the art critic Jean-Claude Lambert will be present at the exhibition.
The anthological exhibition that opens up in Lima and that will travel through the American continent to cities like Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Panamá City, México City and some cities of the United States of America, will display sixty paintings and six sculptures that represent part of Vigas’ lifetime work.
Compared to artists like Fernando de Szyzslo, Roberto Matta, Wilfredo Lam or Rufino Tamayo; Vigas work production, considered an original synthesis of the continent’s cultural roots and the most current tendencies of modernity, made him one of Latin American’s art pioneers.
Born in Carabobo in 1926, Vigas, who also studied medicine, and was recipient of many awards during his career, has a work production that encompasses paintings, sculptures, engravings, ceramics and tapestries, that have been shown in more than one hundred individual exhibitions and numerous internationally renowned group exhibitions, biennials and art salons.