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(b. Guayaquil, 1930). This Ecuadorian painter studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Guayaquil from 1946-1951 where he studied with Luis Martínez Serrano. In 1955 he received a grant to go to Spain, and he lived in Barcelona unti1 1964. He first used Expressionism as a reaction against Indigenism; He started the Ecuadorian artist group VAN against the influence of indigenism. Tábara's work was central to the Latin American movement, which began to abandon social realism in the 1950s. In his early work he painted characters on the margins of society in a hard and grotesque manner. Tábara first exhibited in the United States at the OAS in 1954. From 1953 he started to experiment with abstraction, and in the 1960s he constructed a language of magical and mythical connotations derived from Pre-Columbian calligraphy and Surrealism as in the Region of the Shiris, (1967). His work from this period is rich in texture, combining elements glued to the canvas, seria
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