The IDB Staff Association Art Gallery (IDB SA Art Gallery) presents “Human Being” by Costa Rican artist Osvaldo Sequeira. This exhibition will open on April 9 (5:30-7:30pm) and will be on view through May 9, 2024.  The gallery is located at 1300 New York Avenue, NW (13th Street entrance) in Washington, DC.

“Ser humano / Human Being”:  In his first solo exhibition at the IDB SA Art Gallery, Sequeira presents a new collection of ten acrylics on canvas and two acrylics on transparent methacrylate sheets that manifest the value of the human form as a means of expression, using the figure as a protagonist in each piece. His formally trained technique, combined with his unconventional imagination and path through television and animation, inspires a blend of graphic arts with drawing and painting.

Mónica Medina-Porro (co-curator, IDB SA Art Gallery) writes:

Among the various cultural expressions of Costa Rica, the visual arts have always been a means of aesthetic expression with profound roots.  Since the times of pre-Columbian art, the indigenous culture left a legacy that continued to be reflected in the history and arts of Costa Rica, with a deep cultural heritage. This is how the evolution of Costa Rican art occurred slowly over the centuries until it reached its current image through many changes along with the avant-garde proposals that began to manifest themselves in the middle of the last century, opening the doors to new means of expression in the visual arts of Costa Rica in the XXI century.

This exhibition by Osvaldo Sequeira presents a new collection of works by this multidisciplinary artist who received the National Painting Prize “Francisco Amighetti” in 2019. His works have been displayed in many countries, including Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Colombia. Sequeira is one of the founders of the graphic arts academy “Santa Grafica” in San José, where he also serves as a professor.

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Contact: idbsaARTgallery@iadb.org or 202-623-3635

For more information, see https://www.idbstaffassociationartgallery.org/opening-l-osvaldo-sequeira-costa-rica-tuesday-april-9-530-730-p-m-exhibition-dates-april-9-may-9-2024/

[Artwork above, Sequeira’s “Ser Humano” #35, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 48’’ x 28’’.]