The works by Jorge de la Vega They constitute one of the most disruptive and multifaceted legacies of 20th-century Latin American art.
This section offers a retrospective view of his artistic production, starting from the consecration of his last pop stage and going back to his early initial explorations.
Through his paintings, drawings, collages and three-dimensional frames, it is possible to discover the evolution of a unique iconography, traversed by constant metamorphosis, subtle humor and a profound search around the human condition.
“Changes motivate me. In New York I changed the theme: goodbye to mythological figures and a search for man.”
The artist's definitive break towards the aesthetics of mass culture, psychedelia and commercial graphic design.
“I want my work to shock the viewer with the same intensity with which all its parts shock each other”
The consecratory stage of extreme collage-bricolage, dense textures, mirrors and fantastic animals.
“It wasn’t exactly me who introduced human figures into my painting.”
The great plastic renewal alongside the historical quartet and the experimentation in Paris with three-dimensional frames.
“Little by little I structured the image in an increasingly geometric way”
Abstract and non-figurative investigations of absolute planimetric rigor that coexisted with his work as a perspectivist.
“I only paint when I feel like it”
The creator's self-taught beginnings, alternating still lifes and portraits with live models before shedding visual reality.
