JORGE DE LA VEGA
at the MALBA Modern Art Museum, BA, Argetina
Jorge was an architect turned Painter, Singer, Author & Songwriter. He believed in not following the rules in painting rather doing what one feels like that gives one the liberation to express whatever one wants which lead him to join the Neo-Figurative Art movement.
His painting styles include Formación, Geometría, Otra Figuración, Bestiario & Pop. He contributed a lot in the revival of unorthodox styles of painting.
I loved all his work displayed in the MALBA modern art museum, Buenos Aires Argentina, particularly two of his art pieces are my favourite for the kind of freedom, imagination and thoughtfulness he has put into these.
A friend, after his death described and paid tribute to him in the following words;
“Jorge was a painter, Jorge sang, Jorge was a lyricist of the absurd and of chaos. That chaos which almost swallowed him at some point in his life. But with much sense of humor, with a great desire for health, for clean air, he overcame it; he redefined himself, through his constant method of turning things around. He started by turning painting around, showing a freedom very few have had. If one does not do what one wants in painting, where will he do it? he told me once. Then he painted a world of twisted and turned – around persons: that of the apparent consumerist society. With his eyes of artist from an underdeveloped country he looked at the most developed country and x-rayed it cruelly. He then sang that things should be turned upside down. He died when he was becoming aware that what had to be overturned was much more than painting, much more than himself: the entire society.”
