EL OJO AVIZOR DE

RODOLFO ABULARACH

FERNANDO UREÑA RIB

EL OJO DE ABULARACH

Rodolfo Abularach aborda y explora intensamente el tema del ojo humano como expresión primordial de su trabajo artístico y consigue, con ese aparentemente simple recurso, reclamar la atención a un estilo propio y a las casi infinitas posibilidades plásticas y comunicativas del tema.

Testigo, espía, hablador silente, avizor, omnipresente faro luminoso, disparo de ira, de intenciones y deseos, el ojo de Abularach es al mismo tiempo una historia, una señal y un símbolo.

Fernando Ureña Rib 

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RODOLFO ABULARACH

Currently living in New York, Rodolfo Abularach was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1933 and is considered a Latin American master. He explored the human eye in his early work and this led to his fame and ultimate inclusion in collections in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and in books of Latin American Art History, such as “Art of Latin America: 1900 – 1980” by Marta Traba. Since 1975, he has slowly approached imaginative landscapes, suggesting themes of a more personal nature. Abularach’s works are part of many esteemed collections.

Important Permanent Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Museo Cuevas, Mexico City.
Museum of International Contemporary Graphics, Fredrikstad, Norway.
Museum of Art, Cairo, Egypt.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Museum of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of Art,
Fleming Museum, Vermont.
Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland.
County Museum, Los Angeles, California.
National Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Museum of Art, Baghdad, Iraq.
Panarte Museum, Panama.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Museo del Barrio, New York.
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York.
New York Public Library, New York.
New York, Interchem, New York.
Sala Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia.
Institute of Spanish Culture, Madrid, Spain.
University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Sala Mendoza, Mendoza Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
Cartón y Papel of Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Interamerican Bank, Washington, DC.
Leticia Guerrero Collection, Bank of Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
Direction of Fine Arts, El Salvador.
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela.
Alternative Center for International Arts, New York.
World Print Council, San Francisco, California.
University of Austin, Austin, Texas.
Bank of Guatemala, Guatemala.

Breve bibliografía sobre el autor
Rivera, William, “Rodolfo Abularach”, en América (Washington). — Vol. 12, tomo12, no.4 (Abr. 1960). — p. 32. No. Top. 116

Rodriguez, Belgica, “Aproximación al arte de Centroamérica I”, en: Arte en Colombia internacional (Bogotá). — No. 46 (Ene.1991). — p. 78-82. No. Top: 2454

Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango (Bogotá), Rodolfo Abularach, Santa Fe de Bogotá, El Banco: 1965. Catálogos de las Exposiciones. –1965-, No. Top: 15556

Galería San Diego, (Bogotá), Abularach, Santa Fe de Bogotá, La Galería: 1976, Archivo Vertical, Artes y Humanidades.

Traba, Marta, Hombre americano a todo color, Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Editorial Universidad Nacional, 1995. No. Top: 709.04 T71h

Daza, Gloria Inés, “Abularach”, en el El Espectador, Bogotá, (Julio-1971). Archivo Vertical, Artes y Humanidades.