1951-20181951-2018"From this century I have wanted to commit to two elements: air and water and I have been doing it through two plants. The" ear of water "whose immense leaves float in the misty air of our moors and the" victory regal "symbolic plant of the jungle that floats in the Amazonian ponds and that perhaps cease to exist when our society finds that there is no more wood to cut, nor more gold to subtract and when there are no moors due to global warming, perhaps They will tell our grandchildren when they look at my paintings “this is how the land used to be.” Oscar Alzate.
"Visión Onírica" Visited by Camilo Chico, curatorAlzate embarked on a study of over 15 years in which he elaborated paintings of large format where he primed interest by capturing the voluble effect of the light on the colour. These works captured the melancholy spirit which Alzate had expressed in his rag dolls, this time directing the focus towards the environmental destruction and disappearance of multiple species due to overexploitation of resources and global warming.
