Labombarda, Eduardo – Argentina

The life of Eduardo Labombarda

Eduardo Labombarda is an Argentine painter, born in Buenos Aires in 1949. He trained to be a teacher of Drawing and Painting between 1975 and 1980. He was later self-taught to complete his training as artist.

The work of Eduardo Labombarda

Labombarda’s work is of a figurative style with realistic characteristics. He uses references that range from the baroque naturalistic aesthetic, from which he draws many of his themes, to pop art and mass culture.

Depending on the chosen theme, his colour palette rotates between dramatic illumination and the bright acrylic colours of his contemporary representations. He uses various techniques in his works, such as oils on canvas or cardboard and acrylic on cardboard, paper, fabric and veneer.

His works portray moments of everyday life from the point of view of an attentive observer who witnesses the events, depicting the people, streets and places of the big city.

In his compositions the artist often experiments with neo-creations, in which he recreates masterpieces of painting, extracting themes and characters from their original settings to introduce them into spaces in the city, providing a focus for the artist. In this way, he presents us with his particular reproduction of Diego Velázquez’s works The Jester Calabacillas, The Triumph of Bacchus and Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, where his characters appear unexpectedly and happily integrated into the atmosphere of bar life in a modern-day Buenos Aires.

Eduardo Labombarda has taken part in numerous individual and group exhibitions in important galleries and institutions and has been awarded various painting awards at a national level, including First Prize at the Salón de Pintura of the C.E.P Foundation (1992) and First in the Maimeri Latin American Art Prize (2002).

Silvia Sánchez
Curator