Equador Comissário: CARLOS VILLASIS ENDARA Exposição organizada pela Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, QUITO.
Las artes plásticas contemporáneas dei Ecuador, se encuentran atravesando un período de búsqueda y afirmación de sus valores. La poderosa influencia deI realismo socialista, con la llamada Escuela Indigenista, que por casi tres décadas impuso su dictadura estética, traumatizó a un numeroso grupo de pintores, que bien hubiesen podido surgir con sus propias capacidades. Frente a esta situación, en 1960, un grupo de jóvenes pintores decide enfrentarse con este problema y romper con las normas, impuestas hasta entonces; liberarse deI acadenismo imperante y lanzarse con nuevas experiencias, para tomar posiciones que, a pesar de la reacción de la seudo crítica, han ido, imponiéndose y confirmando el acierto de esta ruptura. El Ecuador, a través de sus Organismos culturales, ha escogido a cuatro artistas representativos de esta actitud, para que conformen nuestra Delegación: GILBERTO ALMEIDA, OSWALDO MORENO HEREDIA, ENRIQUE TARARA Y ANIBAL VILLACIS. Los cuatro con amplia trayectoria y con calidades similares. Diferentes en sus concepciones, pero unidos en su arán de demostrar que, en eI Ecuador, existen pintores dignos de figurar aI lado de los mejores deI Continente y deI Mundo.
Carlo" Villasís Endara
The contemporary plastic arts of Ecuador is going through a period of search and confirmation of its values. The powerful influence of the socialist reaIism witb the so called Indigenous School which for almost three decades imposed its aesthetic dictatorship caused a traumatic condition to a great amount of painters who could very well have appeared for their own capabilities. In 1960, due to this situation. a group of young painters decide to face this problem and to break away from the principIes imposed until then. To liberate themselves from the prevailing formalism and try out new experiences in order to take positions which, in spite of the reaction from pseudo criticism, had been imDosing itself and confirming the goal of this rupture. Ecuador through its Cultural Organizations has selected four representative artists of this attitude so this way they could form its Delegation: Gilberto Almeida. Oswaldo Moreno Hendia, Enrique Tabara and Anibal ViIlacis. The four artists with ample trajectorv and with similar qualities. Different ~ in their conceptions but united in their effort to show that in Ecuador there are painters worthy of appearing next to the best artists of the Continent and of the World.
Carlos Villasís Endara
ALMEIDA, Gilberto (1928 -
Ibarra)
Técnica Mista 1. Composição. 120 x 120. 2. Composição. 120 x 120.
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