Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas exhibited in China
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On August 15, the Guangdong Museum of Art in China opened an exhibition of work by Venezuelan master Oswaldo Vigas.
The show, titled “La realidad es lo que imagino” (Reality is what I imagine), marks a milestone for Venezuelan art and fosters dialogue between Latin American and Asian aesthetics.
Vigas, a painter born in 1923 and who died in 2014, won the Arturo Michelena Prize and the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1952, and the International Contemporary Art Prize of Monaco in 1992. He is considered a key figure in Latin American art because he blended European avant-garde styles with the mystical and pre-Columbian roots of the continent.
His paintings move beyond the distinction between figurative and abstract art, creating a unique and mystical world populated by witches and hybrid creatures. The exhibition features a selection of works from four key periods of Vigas’s seven-decade career. Museum materials state the collection demonstrates his creative vision and explores the themes of modernism and universality. Historian Gabriela Rangel and Chinese researcher Jiang Jun curated the show, which takes place in rooms 7C, 8, and 2F of the museum.
The exhibition allows Vigas to continue reaching new audiences, fulfilling his wish to live for another 100 years and remain true to his artistic identity.
