Otto A Aguilar

Born in Nicaragua. Since 1993 has resided and exhibited in USA.The nicaraguan poet and essayist Alvaro Urtecho has said this about Aguilar: " Aguilar, an artist who is at the same time tough, risky and invariably experimental, requires from his audience an active look, without prejudice..." I grew up in very turbulent times in Nicaragua and my figures express in subtle ways this.Both content and form alike are given importance in my art. This is why the different series I have painted are loaded with biographical aspects, particularly those which have affected me in some painful manner; marking a constant search, leading me to experiment with new materials as well as new forms of expression. With this constant search I have needed to photograph my paintings, leading me to discover digital photography where I have been able to combine my paintings with new digital elements. In my most recent digital work entitled Planchas de la Inquisicon, or Irons of the Inquisition, is where I have expressed my displeasure and I denounce the cruelty and hypocrisy of the religious institutions; who during the time of the inquisition, tortured and killed just as so many political powers do, all those who thought differently than they. In this serie...