Send colissimo Wetness and traces See photo Barrientos' painting is figurative and narrative: he creates dreamlike and chaotic universes, populated by human and animal figures where personal history irremediably intersects with that of the Andean world. This work, which began in the 1980s, is similar to the neo-expressionist movement of the same period, which developed in particular in Italy with the Transavangarde (Chia, Cucchi, Paladino, etc.) and in Germany with the new German painting (Polke, Kiefer, Baselitz, Lüpertz). This movement, which is part of the direct heritage of Van Gogh and Picasso, was interpreted at the time as a reaction against conceptual art. Nothing could be less certain, what defines it above all is a revaluation of the artist's individual territory and a reappropriation of collective myths through the medium of painting. In addition to his certain affinities with these European artists, Barrientos' references are above all "continental", he likes to quote Huaman Poma de Ayala, the first Peruvian chronicler of the 16th century who, through illustrations and stories, relates the Spanish conquest and the fall of the Inca empire and the ex-votos of the Mexican Frida Kalho. Style:1990 Genre:Expressionism Theme:Landscape