Latin American Identity Transcends Borders and Generations at CAF Gallery

CAF—development bank of Latin America—presents a new exhibition called Encuentro
in its gallery in Caracas, featuring works of three artists from three different countries of the region, which interact with the purpose of promoting development of plastic arts on the continent and thus pave the way for Latin American integration.

Antonio Samudio, a Colombian painter, Ignacio Iturria, a painter from Uruguay, and Venezuela’s Carlos Anzola are the outstanding artists who converge on this exhibition to demonstrate the expressiveness of Latin American art. Given the common features of their works, they can interrelate, even though each recounts different histories about their countries, geographic, political and family settings.

“With the selection of these works, we tried to highlight the convergence of three generations of artists who share common elements in their tendencies, combine similar traits in their aesthetics although they belong to three different countries, all of them members of our institution,” said Luis Carranza, CAF executive president.

In addition, Mariela Provenzali, curator of the sample, noted: “The synchronicity that can be established among the works of these three artists, albeit distant in space and time, has been one of the motivations for this exhibition, which contains similarities that can be perceived by our sight and other senses, as a certain reminder that art is a true means of connecting with our inner self.”

Each of these three artists uses a graphic discourse focused on living as a theme, in a way that can stir viewers by inviting them to recognize themselves in the imaginary narratives of this exhibition and discover how Latin American identity transcends borders.

The “Encuentro” exhibit will be open to the public at the CAF Gallery, Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. starting on October 24, 2019.