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Originally from Peru, Walter Barrientos is today a painter of international recognition. Established in Toulouse since 2001, he is characterized by a colorful figurative and narrative painting translating an incessant back and forth between past and future. He develops a universe that is both dreamlike and chaotic, populated by human and animal figures where a personal story that irremediably intersects with that of the Andean world.

He is defined above all by a reappropriation of the collective myths that he expresses through the painting medium that he practices as an autodidact. He was initiated into this practice as he learned to live: in complete freedom.

"As an engraver, I thought I was dead", the future of a technique considered too old seemed blocked. “I painted for a while because engravings were growing inside me. I had to let them sleep. And I wake them up today as after a long sleep. The return to engraving is the result of a long wait. In the darkness of this silence, the constant back and forth between my past world and my current events arose in me. The journey between yesterday and today was a dormant expectation. The engraving slumbered there.

I hoped for a bridge, a way, a passage between two worlds, that of my origins imbued with earth and plants and that of today steeped in culture and knowledge. A silent gestation was operating. I have given birth to a way back. By engraving again, I return to an exploration abandoned more than fifteen years ago in Peru. I rediscover the gestures, not of the artist but of the earthworker: I cut furrows, I uproot, I weed, I form mounds and drains, I sort the good and the weeds ".

- Walter Barrientos


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All artworks of Walter Barrientos
Painting, Made in China, Walter Barrientos

Made in China

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 145 x 97.5 x 5 cm

$2,146

Print, Emancipation, Walter Barrientos

Emancipation

Walter Barrientos

Print - 50 x 71 x 0.8 cm

$565

Painting, Morir di pia, Walter Barrientos

Morir di pia

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 78 x 110 cm

$1,129

Painting, Fuicura palabra de dio destina el mío amazonas, Walter Barrientos

Fuicura palabra de dio destina el mío amazonas

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 77 x 110 cm

$1,129

Painting, Amazone, Walter Barrientos

Amazone

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 73 x 110 cm

$1,129

Painting, Ternura Eterna, Walter Barrientos

Ternura Eterna

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 116 x 81 x 5 cm

$1,412

Painting, Garçon avec cheval, Walter Barrientos

Garçon avec cheval

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 97.5 x 146 x 5 cm

$2,146

Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm

$621

Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm

$621

Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.5 cm

$361

Print, Le temps des cerises, Walter Barrientos

Le temps des cerises

Walter Barrientos

Print - 70 x 50 cm

$542

Print, La Traviata, Walter Barrientos

La Traviata

Walter Barrientos

Print - 70 x 50 cm

$542

Print, Ichucha Mana Mamayok, Walter Barrientos

Ichucha Mana Mamayok

Walter Barrientos

Print - 70 x 50 cm

$542

Print, Ces gens-là, Walter Barrientos

Ces gens-là

Walter Barrientos

Print - 70 x 50 cm

$542

Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 50 x 40 cm

$254

Print, Hormiga Amoroso, Walter Barrientos

Hormiga Amoroso

Walter Barrientos

Print - 156 x 55 x 5 cm

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Print, Sans Titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans Titre

Walter Barrientos

Print - 50 x 40 cm

Sold

Print, Sans Titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans Titre

Walter Barrientos

Print - 50 x 40 cm

Sold

Fine Art Drawings, Amaru, Walter Barrientos

Amaru

Walter Barrientos

Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 32 x 1 cm

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Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm

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Print, Le soldat inconnu, Walter Barrientos

Le soldat inconnu

Walter Barrientos

Print - 70 x 50 cm

Sold

Painting, Sans titre, Walter Barrientos

Sans titre

Walter Barrientos

Painting - 50 x 40 cm

Sold

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Who is the artist?

Originally from Peru, Walter Barrientos is today a painter of international recognition. Established in Toulouse since 2001, he is characterized by a colorful figurative and narrative painting translating an incessant back and forth between past and future. He develops a universe that is both dreamlike and chaotic, populated by human and animal figures where a personal story that irremediably intersects with that of the Andean world.

He is defined above all by a reappropriation of the collective myths that he expresses through the painting medium that he practices as an autodidact. He was initiated into this practice as he learned to live: in complete freedom.

"As an engraver, I thought I was dead", the future of a technique considered too old seemed blocked. “I painted for a while because engravings were growing inside me. I had to let them sleep. And I wake them up today as after a long sleep. The return to engraving is the result of a long wait. In the darkness of this silence, the constant back and forth between my past world and my current events arose in me. The journey between yesterday and today was a dormant expectation. The engraving slumbered there.

I hoped for a bridge, a way, a passage between two worlds, that of my origins imbued with earth and plants and that of today steeped in culture and knowledge. A silent gestation was operating. I have given birth to a way back. By engraving again, I return to an exploration abandoned more than fifteen years ago in Peru. I rediscover the gestures, not of the artist but of the earthworker: I cut furrows, I uproot, I weed, I form mounds and drains, I sort the good and the weeds ".

- Walter Barrientos

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What is Walter Barrientos’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: South American Art