Oswaldo Vigas 1943-2013
Born in Valencia, Venezuela in 1923, Oswaldo Vigas died in Caracas on April 22, 2014 at the age of 90. Like Lam, Matta and Tamayo, Vigas is hailed as a pioneer of Latin American art. He synthesized his Latin American roots with the most advanced pictorial currents of modernity. Similar to Philip Guston, Vigas experimented with both figurative and abstract painting in his quest to find his own voice. .
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Oswaldo Vigas: The Venezuelan Painter Whom History Should Remember by Ann Binlot
Some artists, like Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, and Wilfredo Lam, become immortalized in history, while others — like the Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas, who was a contemporary of Picasso, Ernst, Calder and Lam, often socializing with the artists while he lived in Paris during the ‘50s and ‘60s — remain under the radar, despite being just as talented.
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Homage to History: Oswaldo Vigas at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota by Sara Roffino
The oeuvre of self-taught Venezuelan painter and sculptor Vigas reads like a 70-year history of modernism
in Latin America. In dialogue with Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, and Wifredo Lam, Vigas, who passed
away in 2014, was a prolific artist in the modernist milieu of his time yet failed to receive acclaim on par
with that of his contemporaries. A touring retrospective of his work, curated by writer, historian, and former
director of the Art Museum of the Americas Belgica Rodriguez, seeks to address this oversight, offering a
small window into Vigas’s thousands of paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and tapestries.
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