In November 1995, the Galería de Arte Nacional presented the work of Adrían Pujol (b. 1948), the Venezuelan artist of Catalan origin. [The exhibition] showed the different phases in the landscape work of the artist, which demonstrated artistic elements already explored by others landscapists working within the nation; nevertheless, Pujol admirably adapted these to his time, becoming one of the most active representatives in neo-landscape within the contemporary Venezuelan arts scene. Stein honors the investigative work of the painter, in which the experiences of the traveling artists of the nineteenth century take on another dimension (as do the works by some members of the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Escuela de Caracas), and also [recognizes Pujol’s] important conceptual contributions. Through this, one can perceive the transition from introspective work to a palpable reality that allows [the artist] to capture the geographic diversity of the country and in this way echo its history.
In the catalogue for the eponymous show, Exposición Antológica 1975/1995, the Venezuelan curator and critic Roberto Guevara (1932–1998) offers another reading of Pujol’s work using his essay “La frontera transparente” [The Transparent Border] (see ICAA digital archive doc. no. 1157078). For another critical essay on the work of this artist by the same critic, see “Pujol y lo cotidiano desconocido” [Pujol and the Unknown Everyday] (doc. no. 115749).