León Gallery wishes to thank Christian M. Aguilar for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz believed that the brilliance of an artwork had nothing to do with its being either abstract or figurative. Art, as a language, is able to indicate vague or concrete images in the same manner that musical compositions could as well do — noting that the artist’s musical afición was vital in his craft. Alcuaz has a thorough grounding on the fundamental principles of art, and his virtuosity as a painter is present in his ability to swiftly shift from figurative painting to abstract. In the book Parallel Texts: Federico Aguilar Alcuaz written by Rod Paras-Perez, the works of Alcuaz are “characterized by brisk vivacity, as though the artist were anxious to animate the work before whatever pact he had made with the supernatural expired, before the essence of his being succumbed to the inevitable.” In an Alcuaz piece, the observer may assume that while the artist executed his strokes and applied his solid colors, there was a sense of serendipity that reveals a sort of “dancing” poetry propelled by pure energy, a stirring of imagination radiating from his works that conveys a pleasing experience. In the ‘70s, Alcuaz held numerous exhibits both here and abroad, from Austria to Barcelona, Germany and the Netherlands too. (P.I.R.)