Roberto Obregon, Latin American Oil Painting Roberto Obregon Colombian Venezuelan Master, 1964

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Roberto Obregón, Venezuelan, born Colombia. 1946–2003 Pájaro en Verdes-Azules Oil on canvas Hand signed and dated verso 1964 Provenance: bears … Read more Roberto Obregón, Venezuelan, born Colombia. 1946–2003 Pájaro en Verdes-Azules Oil on canvas Hand signed and dated verso 1964 Provenance: bears label from Phillips auction house Dimensions: framed 24 X16 23.5 h × 15.5 w in (60 × 39 cm) (Further provenance from Rago auctions: The artist Estudio Actual, Caracas CDS Gallery, New York Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Julio Árraga in Maracaibo and was influenced by Eadweard Muybridge and Marcel Duchamp. He is associated with the Nueva Figuración (1950-1970) based in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela. Its major figureswere Luis Felipe Noé, Jorge de la Vega, Rómulo Macció, Ernesto Deira, Antonio Segui, Arnold Belkin, Francisco Icaza, Jose Luis Cuevas, Jacobo Borges, Roberto Obregón, Fernando Botero, Débora Arango and Pedro Alcántara. Influenced by Expressionism. Obregón's works document his physical, bodily decay over time through the physical dissection of roses: He created installations of large rose petals made from cut rubber, which symbolized the dissection. These expressionist petal dissections can also be read as an accumulation of everything a rose could signify for humanity. Further, they denote the bond between the body and nature, as cycles of time and decay affect the body and the rose equally — a concept reminiscent of Félix González-Torres's work. In Venezuela a sort of impromptu academy started up at Claudio Perna’s house. Eugenio Espinoza, Roberto Obregón, Antonieta Sosa, Alfred Wenemoser, Yeni and Nan, Sigfredo Chacón, Diego Barboza, Luis Villamizar, Margherita D’Amico, Pedro Terán, Alfredo del Mónaco, as well as international figures who happened to be visiting Venezuela such as Antoni Muntadas, Charlotte Moorman, and Roman Polanski would gather there. Venezuela, especially Caracas, was a rich field of action for modernism in South America. Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction, Op art and Kinetic Art dominated through crucial figures like Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego, Alejandro Otero, and Carlos Cruz Diez, the country’s kinetic art made a fundamental contribution internationally. Colombia has projected itself internationally throughout its artistic and literary expressions. In painting and sculpture they have remarkable artists like Alejandro Obregon, David Manzur, Enrique Grau, Omar Rayo and Fernando Botero. He was included in the 2023 MoMA show "Chosen Memories Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond" Contemporary works by Latin American artists. Video, photograph, painting, and sculpture made over the past four decades. Artists included Rennó, Alejandro Cesarco (Uruguay), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Mario García Torres (Mexico), Leandro Katz (Argentina), Suwon Lee (Venezuela), Gilda Mantilla (Peru) and Raimond Chaves (Colombia), Jose Bedia (Cuba) and José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia). See less