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Chacón's work can be read as a pictorially narrated story of the
problems of modern and contemporary painting. Throughout his
career, genres and aesthetics are transgressed in his artistic
production, "pure" painting is invaded by conceptual art or becomes
an installation, and the most radical geometry shares the stage
with abstract expressionism. This book is the most complete
editorial work dedicated to the artist, one of the main
protagonists of contemporary Venezuelan and Latin American art. It
contains critical texts by authors of international and national
prestige, such as Jesús Fuenmayor, Dan Cameron, Nadja Rottner and
Félix Suazo; it also includes a complete interview with the artist
by graphic designer and curator Álvaro Sotillo and a detailed
chronology by Israel Ortega and Leonor Solá. Illustrated
with numerous reproductions of his works and a selection of
previously unpublished historical photographs, it is destined to
become an essential bibliographical reference.
This book was produced on the occasion of the first solo exhibition
of Obregon's work in a North American public institution and
includes essays by the curators Jesus Fuenmayor and Kaira M.
Cabanas, in which the work is approached from the artist's own
methodology and from its relevance in the current cultural context.
In addition, it contains an extensive section in which all the
works presented are exhaustively recorded in accordance with the
curatorial structure, derived from years of work in the
classification of the Archivo Obregon by Israel Ortega and Leonor
Sola, and thanks to which it has been possible to open this window
to investigate the intimacy and the interstices of Obregon's work.
Since 2011, the Obregon Archive has formed part of the Carolina and
Fernando Eseverri Collection.
Geometric abstraction found its most dynamic, sensual and enduring
expression in Latin America. Between 1930 and 1970, concrete,
neoconcrete art and other varieties of abstraction thrived on this
continent as nowhere else, and nowhere is this rich vein better
documented than in the famous Cisneros Collection. This volume
draws on the collection to showcase works from Argentina, Brazil,
Uruguay, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia, all of which are
contextualized with historical and artistic documents and essays.
Among the many artists gathered in this definitive overview are
Carmelo Arden-Quin, Wilys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar
Cordeiro, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Carmen Herrera,
Anna Maria Maiolino, Tomas Maldonado, Jose Mijares, Helio Oiticica,
Alejandro Otero, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Lolo Soldevilla, Rafael
Soriano, Jesus Rafael Soto and Joaquin Torres-Garcia.
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