Graphic Work
Vigas was always interested in graphic work. When he arrived in Paris in 1952, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts, where he attended the lithography workshops of Marcel Jaudon. Later, in 1963, he was invited by the Peruvian artist Hugo Orellana to visit the workshop of the Mexican artist Francisco Toledo and make graphic work there. Vigas made a number of important etchings using a technique he’d acquired at the atelier of the British artist Stanley William Hayter; he also printed plates of works by Picasso with renowned printer Georges Leblanc. Later, in 1991, in Maracay, Vigas bought a press that he would later install in his studio in Caracas, and made prints with the support of the artist and printer Victor Cairos. Because of two samples he made in Havana, Cuba, he was invited in 1996, along with his friend Guillaume Corneille, to do lithography at Havana’s prestigious Taller experimental de Grafica.