Alirio Rodríguez
D’Museo. Caracas
With the persistence of the theme of anguish in contemporary man, Alirio Rodríguez (Venezuela, 1934) presents his latest exhibition, which relates to the 1976 series “In front of the abyss”, in which the individual swung in a space, like an acrobat, and with strokes that generated planes, giving a feeling of speed, with abundant gesturality.
In this new series the figure walks like a frightened tightrope walker before planes that move continuously, generating the anguish of not falling into the void in the face of an imprecise and confusing future. These small-format works are resolved directly on paper, with the same mastery that we recognize him for. A simple blotch defines the figure and the weave in which, apprehensively, it moves.
Rodríguez stands out for the mastery of his craft, as usual. Man whom we used to see as universal is now viewed as localized, perhaps because of the current political ups and downs in Latin America.
