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Date of birth: April 24th 1941 Place of birth: Santiago de Chile Now lives and works in Paris. Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature. Won :
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Egidio Alavaro: "Azocar's painting pictures a kind of desperate poetry, a strange way of dealing with distress by derision. This whole painting takes on an extreme but under control violence: from colour to language, from chromatic transposition of situations and feelings to cultural implications and winks." Jean-Jacques Lévèque: "(... ) What we "hear" best in Azocar's painting, it's of course the "cry of colours" as Münch sayed, this famous "roaring of pure colour"... What's more "thrilling" for the eye than this closeness, in Azocar's painting, of complementary colours; red next to green, blue next to orange, yellow next to violet ... ? But, moreover, with this painter, it's the hair that is blue, a cow that is red, a sky that is yellow, a coffin that is green, etc." Luis Felipe Noé: "The exaltation of colour voices a paradox : the one of making use of it to give expression to scepticism and distress. Humour raises that perfect picture with an expressionism which, at the same time, loses in the mixture its tragic character to turn into optimism. The latino-american sight of his painting is precisely brought by this stirring optimism in spite of its formalism and its scepticism (not to say conscious pessimism) worthy of an old world which modelled Azocar - he's living in Europe for 30 years .... " Azocar himself: "How to define my painting ? Some name it critical figuration, new figuration, new image, narrative figuration... Lots of words really whose responsibility I leave to critics and art audience. I would allow myself to be tempted to simply say : "ackowledgement"…" |
