Enrique Chavarrí works surreal but benign - Dallas

“Twenty-eight paintings by Enrique Chavarrí fill the gallery at the Latino Cultural Center. They are midsize paintings, most either 24 by 31 inches or slightly larger, and they hang about 12 inches apart. This is six or more paintings too many for the space, but in a way the overcrowding works. It sets up a visual rhyme with Mr. Chavarrí’s overflowing imagination and the overloaded images he packs into each work.

“Enrique Chavarrí: Surrealism and the Fantastic” presents an overview of this little-known Mexican artist who exhibited seldom in his lifetime and died in 1998. The earliest paintings come from the late 1960s, but most are from the ’70s and ’80s. They are all oil on Masonite or other hard supports, and they depict a world in which landscape shifts into architecture that might also be a human body.”

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