RODOLFO NIETO
(Oaxaca, 1936 - Mexico City, 1985)
49
Signed and dated TO-1966, June 2 on the back
Oil on canvas
With certificate of authenticity from Andrés Blaisten, July 2017.
"The alchemical work is already announced on the surface, where everything is transmuted and turns towards a different order; but Nieto does not stop there, the struggle is deep and projects far away, distills and purges and coagulates more subtle materials: here joy dares in the very center of terror, the human privilege of laughter against nothingness is affirmed. That is why the frequent luxury in this painting, the courage to fall on top of it with all the color screaming in full battle, between lightning bolts that link and destroy and transform, between signs of dark mutations." Julio Cortázar.
Source consulted: CORTÁZAR, Julio. "Rodolfo Nieto by Julio Cortázar", in Rodolfo Nieto. Retrospective. Mexico. Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
115 x 89 cm