Oswaldo Vigas & the Principle of All Things
six paintings selected by Lorenzo Vigas
A special showcase presented by The Signifier : six : shot : gallery with the kind cooperation of the Fundación Oswaldo Vigas and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. The accompanying text is compiled from Remy Dean’s interview with Lorenzo Vigas, writer, filmmaker, and son of the Venezuelan artist, Oswaldo Vigas.
From a very young age, my father was attracted by the cultural origins of Latin America. As a young artist he travelled in search of signs that revealed the most authentic and primitive aspects of his country. He filled his notebooks with images of petroglyphs, pre-Columbian ornaments, and facial paintings of the Guajira culture — a quest that would determine the direction of his work. Through these touchpoints, the artist strengthened the thematic constants that inform his highly individual iconography. The pre-Columbian, in particular, motivated him to deepen his symbolic language, expressed through the figures and graphics that appear in his paintings.
In Tres Brujas Naciente, one can observe the influence of the symbols present in the petroglyphs of the Venezuelan territory and how my father manages to translate them and made them part of a contemporary work.
