The Museum of Central American Art in Delray Beach is proud to announce a comprehensive retrospective of the works of the renowned, surrealist painter Benjamin Cañas (1933-1987), showcasing his profound and innovative contributions to Latin American art.
Benjamin Cañas, who as an architect, moved from El Salvador to the USA, made a significant contribution to art history with his fantastic style.
Cañas’s is celebrated for his use of diverse mediums and techniques, such as gold leaf, ceramic-like finishes, oil on canvas, board, skin and metal matrices, large and small drawings on paper and textiles. The distorted nude figures and magical realism leave viewers awed and wondering.
Born in El Salvador in 1933, he moved to the US in the late 60s when he was hired as an architect for the Watergate Complex in DC. He continued to create images of his cultural heritage and his study of the classics, to become one of the most important avant-guard painters of the fantastic in Latin American art.
