14/08/2026
The Guangdong Museum of Art presents OSWALDO VIGAS: REALITY IS WHAT I IMAGINE, the first major museum retrospective of the Venezuelan artist in Asia, on view August 15 through November 22, 2026. Spanning seven decades of VIGAS’s practice, the exhibition brings together a focused selection of paintings and works alongside rarely seen archival materials, offering a new perspective on an artist whose work challenged the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, modernity and ancestry, and European artistic traditions and the cultural histories of Latin America. Co-organized with Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery and supported by the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation, the exhibition is co-curated by Venezuelan curator Gabriela Rangel and Chinese curator Jiang Jun. Their collaboration places VIGAS within a broader reconsideration of modernism beyond a predominantly Eurocentric framework, bringing a Latin American artistic experience into dialogue with a Chinese perspective on the multiple and multidirectional histories of modern art.
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OSWALDO VIGAS: REALITY IS WHAT I IMAGINE. August 15 – November 22, 2026. Guangdong Museum of Art (Bai'etan), Halls 7 & 8, 2/F. Guangzhou, China.
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August 16, 2026, 2:30–4:30 p.m. ART TALK: From Latin America to China: The Many Faces of Modernity. With Gabriela Rangel, Jiang Jun, and Lorenzo Vigas, Chairman of the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation. Organized by: Guangdong Museum of Art. Co-organized with: Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery. Supported by: Oswaldo Vigas Foundation. Guangdong Museum of Art, Seminar Room, 5/F.
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