THE PAINTING OF EDGAR INSUASTY

By Inés Flores. Quito.

This Colombian painter, Edgar Insuasty (Pasto, 1972), found the path of art at a very early age, and has been following it with such determination and energy that it has allowed him to reach an appreciable level in the field of plastic art.

Insuasty dives impulsively into an image resolutely recovered from his own inner self. With absolute ease, he moves from the fantastic to the real, elaborating a lyrical abstractionism that exempts him from all that is anecdotal.

Agile strokes, like swirling arabesques, produce in his painting a light and dynamic rhythm of masses. The theme floods the artist with a force that flows through his work like a tidal wave or whirlwind of lines and colour, expressing his deep-rooted attachment to his origins, in terms of land and space.

And as for his figures, simultaneously, painted with tenderness and firmness, they parade or linger with a primary grace that possesses the attraction of the spontaneous; the product of an artist who has matured and mastered the relationship between emotion and intellect.