RODOLFO NIETO | Vidente

Galería Estela Shapiro, Mexico City
Private Collection, Mexico (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined and well-stretched. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable. Under ultraviolet light examination, some fluorescence occurs throughout due to the pigments utilized by the artist.
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"I try to produce antagonic painting, full of tensions. Tension is the key to my painting. I make abject subjects beside beautiful subjects, very fine color chords beside whiplashes, and bursts that seek to light up the night. And the value of those fine chords is precisely that they are beside bursts, thus the abject courts the beautiful. One creates tension in the other."  —Rodolfo Nieto, quoted in Homenaje a Rodolfo Nieto (exhibition catalogue), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, 1995, p. 29