gonzalo ENDARA CROW Biography
Ecuadorian painter born in Bucay. He became interested strongly sculpture and folk art from an early age. Their sources of inspiration are the ways of the Ecuadorian geography and the colorful Indian crafts. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Central University of Ecuador, and in 1974, while still a student, made his first exhibition, this show would be the successful start of a series of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Since then, he exhibited at the best galleries and museums in the country, while he received several commendations for his work abroad. It is considered also one of the pioneers of monumental sculpture in Ecuador. Endara's painting synthesizes three styles that develop in their pictorial narrative and fantastic. The naif is your starting point. The artist begins to interpret that world away, across the Andean certainly looked devoid of critical sense. Paint a fable-like story. And it does aback. In the ambiguity of the compositional elements, we find a second influence is joined under the naive assumption that Endara about making a pictorial representation of a reality under certain assumptions of innocence, and the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. There are elements in the works of Magritte that are constant in the Ecuadorian artist's work: the rose, stone eggs, and especially the light treatment. What appears to be unusually real, to call him a surrealist painting becomes a truth, there is a seduction of the elements, a complicity that puts into question the appearance of traditional values through subtle visual change: the treatment of light. © David Albo Listen Read phoneticallyDictionary - View detailed dictionary
