Francisco Salazar (b. 1937)

Galería Oscar Ascanio, Caracas
Private Collection, Palm Beach

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, V Biennial Of Young Artists of Paris, 1967
Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela en la Pintura de Armando Reverón, May 1989

This work is in overall very good condition. A few light/minor lines or craquelure are present along the extreme white border. The overall paint/media layer is sound and tightly bound. Two isolated flecks of paint loss are present in the upper right qaudrant.
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Corrugated cardboard, an industrial and readily accessible material, is at the core of Salazar's artistic production. First used in the 1960s, corrugated cardboard has continued to be the central element of his work for over four decades. Whether individually explored in a variety of combinations and alterations or grouped in a series, Salazar pursues the sequential repetition of a visual event. As shapes appear to displace in space, they materialize through adjacent forms that integrate them to the picture plane once again.