Oficial

Adrián Arguedas1992

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Title: Oficial
Creator: Adrián Arguedas
Creator Lifespan: 1968
Creator Nationality: Costa Rican
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Costa Rica
Date Created: 1992
Title translation: Official
Physical Dimensions: w29.25 x h21.5 in
About the Work: The Costa Rican artist, Adrián Arguedas created at the beginning of the 1990s a series of prints that criticize the corruption and institutional hypocrisy through his grotesque figures that resemble journalistic photographs. The use of black and white in his prints allows the artist the push the medium to emphasize a metaphorical contrast in his subjects about the good and the bad represented in his images of social injustice. Arguedas, following the legacy of Costa-Rican modern artist and printmaker Francisco Amighetti, is known in Central American for his great mastery on printmaking, especially on the technique of xylography.
Type: Print
Rights: Robert Gumbiner Foundation Collection
External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
Medium: woodcut (cromoxilografia) on paper

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