Vancouver, Canada. The Ukama Gallery will inaugurate works by Paul Ygartua tomorrow. It is a collection of large canvases, the result of his work during the pandemic. Born in Liverpool and long time resident in Vancouver, the artist with Basque roots pays tribute to the workers on the front line fighting the Coronavirus. “Heroes/Warriors,” as he calls calles them, include all the health and essential workers that he’d like to honor “for their sacrifice, will and determination.”
Always full of curiosity, Ygartua seeks to record historical events through his art, and this time he has painted four series that represent different aspects of the situation we live in: appreciation to essential workers, the attempt to understand the disease, the big cities under siege by the virus and the unity and compassion in the world in the fight against the pandemic. His works play with the realism-fantasy binomial in the search to understand our current situation.
The exhibition will be available to view May 16-28, 2020 at the Ukama Gallery. It is an “Art Through the Window” type exhibit so that it can be seen when walking by and looking through the window. As such, the walls have been moved and the exterior windows of the gallery indicate the route to experience it. The exhibit “pays tribute to the strength of being together, working to find a solution in the fight against the pandemic,” and is unique in both content and form.
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