Le Grand Banquet, oleo sobre lino, 110 x 180 cms. 2019
Cosmogonia, mujer a caballo, oleo sobre lino, 130 x 162 cms. 2019
Atacama, Femme I, oleo sobre lino, 100 x 100 cms. 2018
Atacama-femme II, oleo sobre lino, 100×100 cms. 2018
Celebración con barca, oleo sobre lino, 146 x 114 cms. 2017
Déjeuner sous les arbres, oleo sobre lino, 124 x 174 cms. 2017
L homme couche, grabado aguatinta y aguafuerte, 98 x 70 cms. 2000
La Barca de Baco, oleo sobre lino, 150 x 209 cms. 2018
La Buenaventura, grabado aguatinta y aguafuerte, 49 x 75 cms. 2011
Vendimias divinas, oleo sobre lino, 209 x 306 cms. 2018
Atacama-Madre-tierra, oleo sobre lino, 157×132 cms. 2018
ALFREDO ECHAZARRETA
Santiago de Chile, 1945
His current work retrieves drawing that was drowned in the materials of pigment and oil, thus nimbly narrating on a smoother canvas, with glazes and energetic strokes. He has always said about his work: «The origin of man in his travels to find himself in myths and in legendary countries that he has never visited.» Likewise, engraving has become my great ally, where black and white, the line and the splatter, synthesize my whole world on paper and thus prepares the work on canvas.
Then the iconic images appeared, such as the horse, the small boat, the vessel, above all the woman and what traveling can do, with which I have quoted Dante and Beatrice, Acteon and Diana. I’m still open to the poem that shows me the man we were and the one we can be.
“My return to Chile, a graphic country and one of contrasts, has distanced me from my work, the «dubious light» of the Seine Valley, (darling of the Impressionists) as well as my previous house in Normandy»