In Los Teques

The series of "Colored Papers" that Alejandro Otero undertook in Caracas at the beginning of 1965, after four years of absence, materialized an immersion in the Venezuelan reality that manifested itself at two different levels: at the level of its content, that is, in the information contained in the press clippings, and in the plastic languages to which he resorted. Choosing the daily press as raw material allowed him to situate himself in a specific place and time: Los Teques is the name of the regional capital (of Miranda state), near where he himself settled when he returned. The material he uses in these new collages, paper, connects him, on the one hand, with those he made in France with old letters and wood, impregnated with nostalgia. On the other hand, his rectangular shapes and bright colors refer him to the language of the "Coloritmos", the series he worked on until 1960, when he left Caracas to settle in Paris.