Ink Conversations
Recent Work of Master Fernando
Carballo, In the PandemicOpening reception
Monday,
October 16, 2023
from 12-1pm
at the OAS Main Building
17th
Street and Constitution Ave NW
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The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas
and the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the OAS invite you to the
opening reception of Ink Conversations: Recent Work of Master
Fernando Carballo, In the Pandemic.
The new ink drawings by Fernando Carballo (1941), which number more
than thirty, summarize his work in 2020, a strange year with
introspective looks. Constructed with a subtle but dense pattern of
black ink, the artist proposes a world all his own, populated by
characters with large faces, deep gazes and huge hands; characters
that interact with other similes that at the same time share space
with the most diverse pets or personify divine messengers. They talk
statically in a space absent from all interaction, where the
multiplicity of meanings proliferates.
Fernando with his wonderful drawings
gives us his concerns and hopes during this prolonged confinement
through a world absent of color, or of a very contained color, which
allows us to recreate this strange journey of 2020. His masterful
drawing and his characters converse with each other, or with their
children or their pets and, in many cases, interact with us, the
public, through questions posed in their deep gaze. They ask about
anxieties, fears, loves and small triumphs throughout this forced
confinement.
This exhibition will remain on view
through October 27, by appointment only: [email protected]