Carlos Oviedo

About Carlos Oviedo

While his grid-based paintings are inspired by Piet Mondrian’s 1930s geometric Compositions, his work most certainly harkens back to Pop Art, with its bold colors, graphic lines and imagery reminiscent of Warhol. Due to the core graphic properties of each piece the result is incredibly eye-catching. Exploring the limits of realistic representation, Oviedo’s 361° series is an artistic discourse on the irony of the processed image in a world of duplication, retouching and photoshop; and in a North American Art Market saturated with Warholian prints. Yet Oviedo’s technique also brings an interesting and important twist: the introduction of a most noble and notoriously difficult medium: Oil Painting. He uses Old Master Ingres’ “Grisaille” technique (oil painting in shades of grey) in order to achieve a high degree of Realism, recalling the look of vintage Sepia photography. A return to a classic technique pushed to the highest degree of perfection, Oviedo’s paintings are delicate masterful originals.(Source: “Oil Paintings with a Graphic Touch: Carlos Oviedo’s Icons” by Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, La Palme, July 2014). Read whole article

The painting of Carlos Oviedo is an artifice, a set of knowledge that manipulated, as he does, create a look, a look that invites us to dream, to forget the natural, to embark in search of the mysteries that only imagination creates and solve the mysteries of these p aintings that some believed were photographs. (Source: By Xavier Moyssén, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico)

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