Paraguayan Ink drawings from the Chaco, Paraguay
These are Ink Drawings from Paraguay which are very difficult to obtain. I heard about them from a South American collector who is on the Top 200 Art Collectors in the World List. Most of the research is in Europe. These are done by the indigenous people in the Chaco Region of Paraguay. Efacio Alvarez makes his living by ink drawing and working in the Mennonite community who helps out the Indigenous people throughout Paraguay. Notice the detail in the fine lines and in some drawings no line touches another. The artists draw scenes from their daily life such as the jungle. Deforestation has become a big problem for the Chaco region. Bic Ink from France donates the ink and the paper.
I love trees and animals, and I love the forest, because this is where I learned to observe and draw. When I feel like drawing, I simply search for places in my memory. I think of trees and animals and I start to make some sketches. Without trees, animals cannot survive—they die. Deforestation causes us to suffer as well. Efacio Alvarez
FROM PATRICIA PHELPS DE CISNEROS: @cppcisneros (Instagram) "In between perusing the digital offerings of New York’s @TheMuseumOfModernArt (where she serves as a trustee) and visiting the Centro Léon (@centroleonrd) art space in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros has begun collecting ballpoint pen drawings by Indigenous artists from Paraguay’s Chaco region. Made by forming animal and floral forms out of dazzling swirls of ink, these works by #FloribertaFermin, #EstebanKlassen, and more were first shown on the website @Preview.Art_official, in a presentation curated by Sofia Gotti (@aifos_gotti). 'I have been collecting Amazonian Indigenous art in Venezuela for 40 years, but this was a totally new type of language for me,' Cisneros said." -@ARTnews Top 200 Art Collector in the World
