Kwai Fung Hin is pleased to present Oswaldo Vigas: Return, Always Return, the first solo exhibition of the Venezuelan artist in Asia and also his first exhibition with Kwai Fung Hin supported by Oswaldo Vigas Foundation. This year marks the 100th birth anniversary of the artist. The exhibition celebrates Oswaldo Vigas’s (1923 – 2014) artistic achievements and offers an overview of his cross-cultural practice that helps define Latin American modernism in its own terms. With significant attention turning to Latin American modernism in recent years, Kwai Fung Hin is initiating the dialogue in Asia to broaden the global discourse of modern art.

As one of the most influential Latin American artists in the post-war period, Vigas played a pivotal role in the avant-garde art scenes in both Venezuela and Paris where he lived from 1952 to 1964. He was associated with many Latin American and European modern artists, such as Picasso, Wifredo Lam, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and Roberto Matta, among others, fostering cultural exchange across continents. As the first Venezuelan artist to draw on ancient iconographies from pre-Columbian and ancient African culture to articulate the unprecedented changes of the modern time, Vigas is celebrated as a forerunner not only in his country but also Europe, South and North America.

Gallery address: 01-G04 to G05, G/F, Headquarters Block, Tai Kwun, Central