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Victor Chaca
Personajes y Escaleras, 2004Oil and mixed media on Canvas
31.5 x 39.5 in
80 x 100.3 cmIn Personajes y Escaleras, Chaca combines figures with ladders and chairs from the carpentry profession (Chaca means carpenter in Zapotec). Often drawing from Zapotec themes, Chaca’s works aim to capture...In Personajes y Escaleras, Chaca combines figures with ladders and chairs from the carpentry profession (Chaca means carpenter in Zapotec). Often drawing from Zapotec themes, Chaca’s works aim to capture the imaginary spaces between dreams and illusions, legends and myths, light and shadow. Through his heavily textured oil paintings, Chaca’s carnivalesque oeuvre exists in the realm of magical realism.Exhibitions
Views from Mexico: A 20th Panorama, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY, 2025
