Victor Chaca
Personajes y Escaleras, 2004
Oil and mixed media on Canvas
31.5 x 39.5 in
80 x 100.3 cm
80 x 100.3 cm
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 seek 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 seek 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 follows in the realm of magical realism.
