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Osvaldo Pitoe
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #16 Paper Indigenous Osvaldo Pitoe

2025

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Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #16 Paper Indigenous Osvaldo Pitoe Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Towards the Past: Memories of the Gran Chaco, the first UK exhibition by Osvaldo Pitoé (b. 1963), an indigenous Nivaclé artist of the Paraguayan Chaco. Pitoé first came to prominence in Europe in the landmark exhibition Trees (2019) at Fondation Cartier, Paris, which positioned him as an important emerging voice advocating for the preservation of indigenous ways of living in union with the forest and its ecosystems. The exhibition takes its title from yma guaré (towards the past), a Nivaclé expression loaded with an intense and palpable feeling of nostalgia. It reflects the sentiments at the heart of these works: a longing for a way of life in the forest and a deep melancholy for everything that is lost. About the artist: Towards the Past: Memories of the Gran Chaco is Osvaldo Pitoé's first solo exhibition. Recent group exhibitions include Dancing With All: The Ecology of Empathy (2024-25) at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, Les Vivants (Living Worlds), Fondation Cartier (2022) and In the Forest. A Cultural History (2022) at the Landesmuseum in Zurich. In 2021, Pitoé participated in a residency at the British Museum, London. Pitoé was born in Pedro P. Peña, a village on the banks of the Pilcomayo River on the Paraguay-Argentine border. In 2006, his hometown was destroyed by a shift in the river’s path and its inhabitants were forced to move inland to Cayin´o´Clim, a Nivaclé community located on the outskirts of the Neuland Mennonite colony of the Gran Chaco. The colony was established in 1947 after thousands of German-speaking Russian Mennonites fled the Soviet Union during World War II, and now occupies territories belonging for centuries to the indigenous peoples of the Paraguayan Chaco. Conditions in Cayin´o´Clim are harsh, marked by brutal policies of discrimination that keep indigenous people living in extreme poverty and disconnected from their ancestral ways of life. In this site, an unusual convergence of two exoduses that led the Nivaclé people to find themselves foreigners in their ancestors’ land, artistic expression has persisted in the form of a collective mission named Artes Vivas. This collective was established through a long-term collaboration between indigenous artists and the Swiss anthropologists Ursula and Verena Regehr, who have promoted their activities since 1998 through exhibitions and publications. Pitoé continues this mission, his work serving as a visual expression of the community’s resistance to erasure.
  • Creator:
    Osvaldo Pitoe (1963, Paraguayan)
  • Creation Year:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Houston, TX
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1405215904842

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