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(b. Quito, Ecuador, 1936). He studied painting in the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Various art historians and critics in Ecuador call his work magical realism. Inspired by popular landscape paintings, his paintings of towns, with white houses and tiled roofs, and landscapes are full of detail and colour. Yet his otherwise folkloric representation of those towns and its habits is twisted by adding surreal elements, such as giant eggs falling from the sky or a railroad riding a magical tract in the sky. His art is humorous and ironic. His paintings create small, eternal, worlds that defy proportion and logic perhaps representing various Andean myths of the mestizo population in Ecuador. It is often difficult to interpret his art because it encompasses satire and respect at the same time making his paintings pleasant to look at and own yet open to criticism and in-depth study.
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