Send colissimo Moisture and traces See photo Barrientos' painting is figurative and narrative: he creates dreamy and chaotic universes, populated with human and animal figures where personal history irrevocably intersects with that of the Andean world. This work, which began in the 1980s, is to be related to the neo-expressionist movement of the same era, particularly developing in Italy with Transavantgarde (Chia, Cucchi, Paladino…) and in Germany with the new German painting (Polke, Kiefer, Baselitz, Lüpertz). This movement, which is rooted in the direct legacy of Van Gogh and Picasso, was then interpreted as a reaction against conceptual art. Nothing is certain; what defines it above all is a re-evaluation of the individual territory of the artist and a re-appropriation of collective myths through the medium of painting. In addition to his certain affinities with these European artists, Barrientos' references are primarily "continental"; he likes to cite Huaman Poma de Ayala, the first Peruvian chronicler of the 16th century, who, through illustrations and narratives, recounts the Spanish conquest and the fall of the Inca empire, and the ex-voto of the Mexican Frida Kahlo.