La Virgen y Changó
Enrico Armas · Venezuela, 1957 · 2011
Price on request
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm (24 × 31 in)
- Edition
- Unique piece, signed
- Frame
- Wood frame
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The story
The whole picture is in turquoise and water greens, with accents of crimson and red. At the centre a seated frontal figure wears a crown of rays and looks out at the viewer; around it, other forms — a cross, a cup, an eye in the upper left corner — appear and dissolve back into the paint.
Over the ground, painted in raised, light strokes, there are words: the largest crosses the upper band and reads «BIRONGO»; at the lower left «LOVE», and at the lower right «DIOS».
The three words point the same way. Changó is an orisha of the Yoruba pantheon, present in Afro-American religions; and Birongo is a town in Barlovento, in Miranda State, founded by enslaved people fleeing the plantations, known for its San Juan Bautista drum festivals and for giving its name to an Afro-Venezuelan spiritual tradition. The work is signed «ARMAS» at the lower right and dated 2011.
Why this work?
«La Virgen y Changó» (2011), by Enrico Armas, is an acrylic on canvas measuring 60 × 80 cm: a field of turquoise and water greens with crimson accents, from which a seated figure with a crown of rays emerges, surrounded by signs and by words painted over the ground — «BIRONGO» large above, «LOVE» and «DIOS» below. A unique, signed work, selected by Pablo Vaca for EL ART DEALER for its crossing of religious iconography and writing.
In your space
The turquoise calls for a white wall and tempered light: it works well in an entryway or a living room, and rewards stepping close to read the words.
Catalog details
| Work | La Virgen y Changó |
| Artist | Enrico Armas — Venezuela, 1957 |
| Year | 2011 |
| Medium | Acrylic on canvas |
| Dimensions | 60 × 80 cm (24 × 31 in) |
| Edition | Unique piece, signed |
| Condition | Good condition |
| Frame | Wood frame |
| Certificate | Signed certificate of authenticity, included |
| Price | Price on request · Available |
About the artist
Enrico Armas
Venezuela, 1957 · Painting and sculpture
Enrico Armas Ponce (Caracas, Venezuela, 23 November 1957) is a painter and sculptor, son of the writer Alfredo Armas Alfonzo and of Aída Ponce. He began exhibiting in Caracas as a teenager and in 1977 won the Pepino Acquavella Prize at the V Salón Nacional de Jóvenes. The following year, on a French government scholarship, he trained in France — among other places at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work moves from abstraction to figuration and back, almost always with color leading.
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