reviews

"Rarely found in the Iberian Club South American works that draw attention as the world-wide paintings of Oswaldo Viteri of Ecuador. Here, the road that leads to present art has really been found, the same one that is determining a global reach with an American American trend, without sacrificing the environment. If you want to analyze the global scope, which despite its opposing elements form a unit, it should be indicated that it is an impressionist abstract pictorial structure, which brings together the heritage of the industrial culture of the West in painting, where they stand out on the other hand, the textile elements that Viteri gives its own arrangement and that reflects the heritage of the South American native culture.

The latter is divided into three factors: in textile fragments of an agrarian culture, in the "relics" of a sacred - baroque culture in which the religious heritage of the Spanish conqueror is reflected; and then, above all, the elements of provocative composition of the countless small dolls made by the natives. In the painting, the imagination of human culture is the only member of a group. In modern art there have been frequent setbacks to the origin of humanity, the "primitive" in the development of the civilization of man.

Not only is it extraordinary, that here the small rag dolls are integrated into the painting, but the way and manner in which he orders toys in a strict manner, form rows, or cover entire surfaces in a parallel arrangement, as he allows to create arrangements of colorful covered with powder of decomposition and only in the center the group resplendent in the form of a picture. The group resplendent and the grayest? The trends are clear, everywhere the nostalgia for a naive character of a world culture stands out.

Marked emotion of aggression is seen above all in those paintings in which, on the one hand, the power of the sacred and on the other hand the power of the landscape leaves man almost in a lost role, which faces the infinite space of nature and what is natural ".

Annelie Pohlen Bonn, Federal Germany 1980