William Riquelme
Bio
William Riquelme (Asuncion, 1944). He began his artistic work by painting abstracts with tempera and enamels on cardboard and canvas. His openness to modern art begins with his trips to Argentina. There, at the Di Tella Institute, he was attracted by the art movement that exploded in Buenos Aires in the 1960s. In the 1990s he created “La Placita Ayolas”, a cultural, political and social center of great relevance at that time of transition to democracy in Paraguay. He was a founding member of the Museum of Modern Art in Asunción, and was part of the group "Los Novísimos", together with Ángel Yegros, Enrique Careaga and José Antonio Pratt Mayans. He has turned to both drawing and painting, masterfully oscillating between the subtlety of line and large surfaces of color. The human figure has been a constant in his visual poetry, crossed by irreverence and fiction.
Statement
This exhibition brings together different moments in the artistic production of William Riquelme, from his beginnings in 1962 with Ángel Yegros, before joining the Los Novísimos group, to current pieces. The exhibition is articulated around the idea of the journey traveled by two friends during 60 years of dedication to art, and accounts for poetic and formal searches and discoveries manifested in a work of great formal and expressive power, marked by an irreverent spirit and playful.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
