OOAKS 2023 Toronto, Canada | José Unda
Sara Palacios Gallery 2023, Quito Ecuador | José Unda
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Imago Mundi Gallery & Luciano Benetton | José Unda
5-6 José Unda’s works have been purchased by Luciano Benetton with Fotones 2008 and Aura 2016 that can be seen today at his gallery Imago Mundi
Imago Mundi is the art collection of works commissioned and collected by Luciano Benetton on his travels around the world.
Between silence and emptiness | The essentialism of José Unda
José Unda gravitates between silences and emptiness. The painter exhibited his art at the Sara Palacios Gallery. The color is mixed technique and he paints without brushes, which he only uses to mix.
Tiempo Espacio | José Unda
The Tiempo – Espacio exhibition consisted of Forty (40) paintings of small and large formats. Acrylic on canvas and mixed techniques, are the main mediums featured in this show by the Quito painter José Unda. This exhibit was hosted by the Manuel Rendón Seminario art gallery, of the House of Culture, Guayas nucleus.
The force of the invisible | José Unda
“Art is made for the love of life and it must integrate everything, even what does not exist but will exist at some point. It is also what is cyclical, what goes back and forth like breathing ”. (José Unda, 2008)
José Unda entered the School of Fine Arts at the age of 14. His adventure begins before that and later. As a child he loved music above all and the work of the professionals that thrived in his environment. He did it in a way that was not entirely understandable to him but that began to make sense when, through drawings of instruments that he only imagined. The guitar, the piano, the violin or the flute that he wanted to play started to emerge from his hands. The flutes he drew were long and sinuous, with many holes. The guitars and violins had a lot of strings as if with that abundance, he says, “could originate a more extensive music, almost infinite.”
From his show at the Ileana Viteri Gallery
Exhiben “Cuatro” | José Unda
Los Secretos Del Vacio | José Unda
The Metropolitan Cultural Center presents the work of José Unda, an Ecuadorian painter with more than 50 years of experience.
He masterfully combines unconventional materials with themes linked to the vastness of the cosmos and the search for the unknown and immeasurable.
The artist invites the viewer to explore into his work and investigate the infinite and unknown of space, color and matter.
“My best work is on paper,” says Unda, but explains that his priority is not the medium, but what is on it. The background and not the form.
Centro Cultura Metropolitano 2015
Random photos of José Unda at work
Various shots of José Unda preparing for his shows and selecting artworks for the exhibits if you are interested in other shows please reach out at: contact
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