The landscapes of Ecuador seduced the Chilean painter based in the country Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda, known as Catasse.
Since his arrival in Ecuador in 1965, he dedicated himself to painting without stopping until two years ago when he was diagnosed with a disease called amyloidosis, which affected his hands and left arm. “He could not paint, his hands ached and his mood began to drop, but he fought to the end. Despite his ailment, a week before he died he painted the last pictures of him. One of them was a small portrait of a girl and some landscapes, ”said his wife, Marisol de Catasse. The painter died in Quito, at the age of 65. His remains were cremated in the Monte Olivo cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. His daughter, Yahanúa Tapia, remembers that his father's paintings were always full of colors. Yellows, greens and ochres were combined in each landscape, in each portrait. His friends knew him as the Palette, because of his technique in which he prioritized color more than strokes. The landscape was the scene of him and the man, the main character of his work. “When he invited his friends to the workshop, each one was impressed because each painting or portrait took 40 minutes. He always said that it is not 40 minutes but 40 years of experience, ”said his daughter. His main influences were the masters Kingman, Guayasamín and Almeida. The painter Eda Muñoz considered Catasse's work as «a fresh art, with diverse themes, but very deep observation, a total dedication to color». Catasse was born in 1944, in Santiago, but has settled in Ecuador since 1969. He was interested in painting since he was a child, for which reason he was considered a self-taught artist. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Santiago. In 1994 he obtained the first prize, the Ricardo Anwandter Gold Medal in Valdivia, Chile; National Painting Award, Ecuador, 1986; honorable mention with his work El Quijote, in the annual Mariano Aguilera painting and sculpture contest. In 2008 he received the Benjamín Carrión award for artistic merit, at the House of Ecuadorian Culture (cce). Among the museums that include his works are the Museum of Latin American Art in Havana, Cuba; the Larrés Drawing Museum in Aragón, Spain, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cuenca. His family complied with the will of the painter, to die in Ecuador and not in his native country, Chile.
Pre-Columbian Symbols 1978 - Carlos Catasse
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