(ECNS) -- The retrospective of the Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas opened at Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou on Saturday, featuring major artworks and archival documents spanning over seven decades of creation.

Titled Reality is What I Imagine, the retrospective was jointly curated by Venezuelan curator Gabriela Rangel and Chinese curator Jiang Jun. It brings together Vegas’ representative pieces and related historical materials.

Vegas was a Venezuelan painter, muralist and sculptor, widely recognized as one of the key figures in Latin-American modern art. He delved deep into Venezuela’s cultural heritage and engaged in local and international modern-art developments, blending European modernism with Latin America’s rich and diverse cultural legacies.

Wang Shaoqiang, director of Guangdong Art Museum, noted that Vegas neither blindly followed the universal narratives of European modernism nor clung to nostalgic localist fantasies. Instead, he forged a creative stance known as “amphibious modernity” between the two traditions.

Occupying two galleries in the new Guangdong Art Museum building, the show traces the stylistic evolution of Vegas across four chronological phases, offering a comprehensive overview of his lifelong artistic output.

(By Xu Wenda, Zhang Dongfang)