World Premiere of Oswaldo Vigas Show at Boca Raton Museum of Art
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World Premiere of Oswaldo Vigas Show at Boca Raton Museum of Art
“Alacran” by Oswaldo Vigas (1952), oil on canvas.



BOCA RATON, FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents "Oswaldo Vigas: Paintings Between Latin America, Africa, and Europe" (on view through May 21), a collection of works by the Latin American master which he created in Paris in the 1950s, and in Venezuela from 1969-1976. “For South Florida audiences, at the crossroads here of the contemporary Latin American experience, this new presentation of Oswaldo Vigas’ work takes on a whole new meaning at this time in American culture,” says Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Museum. “We are thrilled to partner with the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation to usher in the opening of this powerful exhibition,” adds Lippman. Honoring the launch of the new catalogue raisonné about the artist, the show is an homage to Vigas by his son, the award-winning filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas. Watch the video trailer about the new catalogue raisonné at this link. The show features several works that have never been exhibited before in the United States. The paintings are on loan from the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation.

Vigas is celebrated as a towering figure of modernism in Latin America, with a career spanning seven decades. His first solo exhibition in the U.S. was in 1958 in Washington, D.C. Described as “an artist who bridged the gap between pre-Colombian iconography and the experimental art movements of the 20th century,” Vigas received the International Association of Art Critics Award twice (in 2008 and 2014), and was the recipient of the Latin Union Award in Washington, DC in 2004.


“Concitadoras” by Oswaldo Vigas (1972), oil on canvas.

The new Oswaldo Vigas catalogue raisonné may be viewed online at catalogue.oswaldovigas.com. The catalogue was researched by the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation with the support of Axel Stein, the former head of the Latin American Art Department of Sotheby’s. The first online catalogue raisonné of any Venezuelan artist, this valuable resource will allow scholars, curators, collectors, and the public to access information about the artist. The catalogue includes over 3,000 paintings, gallery and museum history, and publications detailing the artist’s trajectory. The catalogue provides a clear understanding about Vigas’s first works regarding his vision of the Americas, and his period spent in Paris which resulted in his famous Central University of Venezuela (UCV) murals (now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site), and the numerous drawings, collages, paintings, ceramics, mosaics, and tapestries he created before his death in Venezuela 2014.

A self-taught painter and muralist, Vigas’ work includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics and tapestries. The artist was featured in more than one hundred solo exhibitions, and is represented in numerous public institutions and private collections around the world. He identified as Mestizo, a South American term for a person of mixed indigenous and Spanish heritage. As a child, he was keenly interested in the pre-Colombian artifacts and petroglyphs in the region. Although abstraction and figuration can be found in his paintings, Vigas did not want his work to be labeled as either. A modernist who masterfully blended elements of cubism, surrealism, constructivism, and neo-figuration, each painting is imbued with his ongoing exploration into his Mestizo identity. Pre-Colombian lines and figurations can easily be seen in his work. His affinity for the female form and his strong, gestural style are hallmarks of his work. Vigas was a contemporary of Picasso, Ernst, Léger, Calder, and Lam, and he became close to these artists while living in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s (especially Picasso, who encouraged Vigas to reflect on notions of ancestry in his work). Vigas was the first artist to represent Venezuela at the Venice Biennale when its national pavilion was inaugurated in 1954, and again in 1962 to organize the Venezuelan section. He was successful in France, where his works were exhibited alongside artists Jean Arp, Chagall, Giacometti, Laurens, Magritte, Matisse and others.


“Ludica III” by Oswaldo Vigas (1970), oil on canvas.

Vigas returned permanently to Venezuela after 12 years because he passionately yearned to contribute to his own country’s art scene by utilizing the knowledge he gained in Europe. Some say this move prevented him from gaining the international traction of his contemporaries in Paris from that era.

This new exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art is a labor of love for the artist’s son Lorenzo Vigas, winner of the prestigious Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2015. He subsequently directed a 2016 documentary about his father’s life entitled The Orchid Seller (El Vendedor de Orquídeas), and was recently deeply involved in the creation of his father’s online catalogue raisonné. “The film I created about my father asks us to reflect on the passage of time, the importance of memories, and above all on the origin of the impulse to create,” says Lorenzo Vigas. “My father’s art was always woven with the primeval roots of Latin American culture, yet he is no longer viewed merely as a ‘Latin American artist’ (whatever that means) – he is now acknowledged as a modern universal artist.”


“Objeto en Rojo” by Oswaldo Vigas (1954), oil on canvas.

“Through his work, he reinstated our continent’s Pre-Columbian roots and African heritage with vibrant European and North American modernism. He dedicated his entire life to creating art, and never stopped painting until the final day of his life,” adds Lorenzo Vigas.

Vigas’ work is represented in numerous institutions, including: the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Michigan State University Art Museum; the Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, in Washington, D.C.; the Avon Collection, in New York; in France - Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine in Angers; Musée Des Beaux Arts D'Angers; and Musée Des Beaux Arts in Reims; in Colombia - Museo de Arte Moderno; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo El Minuto de Dios; in Peru - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Lima; in Chile - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; in Uruguay - Museo Ralli in Punta del Este; and in numerous important private collections worldwide.


"Aguiladora” by Oswaldo Vigas (1972), oil on canvas.

About the Boca Raton Museum of Art
Founded by artists, Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown, now in its eighth decade, to encompass a Museum, Art School, and Sculpture Garden. As one of South Florida’s leading cultural landmarks, the Museum provides educational programs and a robust exhibition schedule to the community, and to visitors from around the world.










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