Enrique TABARA (1930-2021)

Enrique TABARA (1930-2021) "Rococo", oil on perforated canvas, signed E TABARA, titled and dated 1960 on the back. 61.5 x 50 cm Note: THE ART OF ENRIQUE TABARA by Juan Ed. Cirlot Enrique Tabara Zerna, Guayaquil 1930, is one of the most experimentally restless painters currently belonging to the Barcelona school, where he arrived in 1955, on the occasion of the III Spanish-American Biennial. In his homeland, after studying with the German expressionist painter Michälson, he evolved towards a type of abstraction that incorporates an image inspired by the art of old Peruvian fabrics, both in the inorganic, fragmented distribution of schematic forms, and in the feeling for color, where oranges, pinks, blacks and creamy shades predominate. In Spain, he began by practicing radical texturalism, almost totally eliminating form and inserting large impastos of orogenic meaning and earthy, green rainforest hues. Between 1955 and 1958, a stage of diverse experimentation was completed, and in the last of these years, the artist's period of maturity began with the discovery of a technique and a type of image. In the most recent period, he incorporates folded or smooth canvases by gluing them to the support, thus giving a relief that he prefers to be brilliant and sensual. More rarely, his compositions feature scratches and absolute perforation, with holes punctuated by discontinuous axes, and almost regular, geometric shapes set within a centralized system.