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For the 2019 Armory Show, Ascaso Gallery is proposing a single-artist booth devoted to the great Venezuelan modernist Oswaldo Vigas. Vigas, who died in 2014 at 90,  had a career lasting seven decades, as a key participant in the Parisian art scene in the 1950s and upon his return to Venezuela in 1964, as a towering figure in Latin American art. During his lifetime,  he showed extensively with over 100 solo exhibitions and international shows,  including the 1953 Sao Paulo Biennale and the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1962.  
 
Weaving together indigenous iconography with modernist influences, …