We are pleased to announce a new show by José Gamarra, this time in collaboration with other two friend galleries, as a way to complement the antologic show at the National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo.
Gamarra, born in Uruguay in 1934, first developed a painting-writing of semi-abstract pictograms until the mid-1960s. These graphics then became increasingly dense and colorful and evolved into explicit representations, which in the early 1970s found their way into symbolic landscapes. These became more and more realistic from the following decade until his most recent paintings.
Gamarra's work makes us reflect on the notion of identity. symbols and myths
They are in perpetual mutation. Two worlds face each other: on the one hand, nature, where the
white horse jumps, symbol of freedom; on the other hand, the different powers that found
the structure of the world: money, profit, possession and political power, synonymous with threats and attacks. Gamarra's painting is a hymn to freedom.
The artist, in his work, denounces all forms of oppression.
Gamarra, who has lived in Paris since 1963, has had more than fifty individual exhibitions and has participated in numerous collective exhibitions on all continents. His works are exhibited in the world's leading museums including the Metropolitan Museum of New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.