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Luis Enrique Tábara (born 1930, Guayaquil
Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port. Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil....
, Ecuador
Ecuador

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) is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher representing a whole Hispanic pictorial and artistic culture.

Tábara took interest in painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 at the age of three and was drawing regularly by the age of six. In these early years he was strongly encouraged by both his sister and his mother.






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Luis Enrique Tábara (born 1930, Guayaquil
Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port. Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil....
, Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
) is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher representing a whole Hispanic pictorial and artistic culture.

Tábara took interest in painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 at the age of three and was drawing regularly by the age of six. In these early years he was strongly encouraged by both his sister and his mother. Enrique Tábara nevertheless is a creator who investigates and demystifies the image in which he takes refuge. Tábara's energetic and innovating spirit is a constant that reveals the anxious and versatile spirit of the teacher. A master of experimentation, he is fully aware of his roots and the process that he has followed over the years, with an abundant mass of brilliant works to show for it.

Tábara was greatly influenced by the Constructivist Movement
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
, founded around 1913 by Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin worked as a painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivism movement....
, which made its way into Europe and Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
 by way of Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres Garcia
Joaquín Torres García

To help please go to Joaqu?n Torres Garc?a/TranslationJoaqu?n Torres Garc?a , was a Uruguayan artist and art theorist, also known as the founder of Constructivism Universalism....
 and Parisian/Ecuadorian painter Manuel Rendón. Torres Garcia and Rendón both made an enormous impact on Latin America's master artists such as Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís
Aníbal Villacís

An?bal Villac?s is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials....
, Félix Arauz
Félix Arauz

F?lix Arauz is a very important Latin American painter from Ecuador. Arauz is among the art circles of Enrique T?bara, An?bal Villac?s, Jose Carre?o and Juan Villafuerte....
, Theo Constanté
Theo Constanté

Theo Constant? is a master List of Latin American artists who is a part of Informalismo. His works are abstract in nature and consist of many different colors which meld together amongst loosely drawn geometric lines....
, Oswaldo Viteri
Oswaldo Viteri

Oswaldo Viteri is a neo-figurative artist. Viteri gained recognition for his assemblage work but has worked in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking and mosaics....
, Estuardo Maldonado
Estuardo Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado a master Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the constructivism . Maldonado is a member of VAN, the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique T?bara....
 and Carlos Catasse
Carlos Catasse

Carlos Catasse full name Carlos Tapia Sep?lveda, Catasse formed his new last name by taking the first two letters of his first, middle and last name and combining them....
, to name a few.

The Barcelona years

In 1946, Tábara attended the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil and was mentored by German artist Hans Michaelson and Guayaquileno artist, Luis Martinez Serrano. In 1951, Tábara finished mastering the fundamentals and left art school. Tábara's early works typically depicted grotesque characters, marginalized peoples of Guayaquil, prostitutes, and some portraits. By 1953, Tábara began to paint more abstract images.

Tábara held his first US exhibit in 1954 at the Organization of American States
Organization of American States

The Organization of American States is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas....
 (OAS) in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 In 1955, the Ecuadorian government offered Tábara a scholarship to study at the Escuela Official de Bellas Artes de Barcelona (The "Llotja", Catalan for "Exchange", the school had originally been named "Academy of the Exchange"). Tábara's work was welcomed with great success in Spain and Tábara befriended surrealist André Breton
André Breton

Andr? Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism....
 and Modernist painter Joan Miró
Joan Miró

Joan Mir? i Ferr? was a Spain Catalonia painting, sculpture and Ceramics born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride....
. By 1959, Tábara's work had gained a great deal of international attention. André Breton asked Tábara to represent Spain in the Homage to Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 Exhibition, among the works of Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal? i Dom?nech, 1st Marquis of P?bol was a Spain Catalonia surrealist painter born in Figueres.Dal? was a skilled Technical drawing, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealism work....
, Joan Miró
Joan Miró

Joan Mir? i Ferr? was a Spain Catalonia painting, sculpture and Ceramics born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride....
, and Eugenio Granell
Eugenio Granell

Eugenio Granell was an artist often described as the last Spanish Surrealist painter.Born in La Coru?a in the north-western region of Galicia , Eugenio Fern?ndez Granell started out as a political radical and a musician....
. Miró enthusiastically praised Tábara's work and presented Tábara with an original piece of his artwork which Tábara has long treasured as pure gold.

While living in Barcelona, Tábara began working with Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies

Antoni T?pies is a Spain Catalonia painter. He is one of the famous artists of European abstract expressionism. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting....
, Antonio Saura
Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura was a Spanish artist who was born in Huesca in 1930 and died in Cuenca in 1998....
, Manolo Millares
Manolo Millares

Manolo Millares was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist, Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953, he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter....
, Modest Cuixart and many other Spanish Infomalist artists. Tàpies and Cuixart were members of the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau-al-Set, founded by Catalan
Catalan people

The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous Community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France ? known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord , and in France as the Pays Catalan ? are often included in this definition....
 poet Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa i Cuervo . Poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set and one of the leading early proponents of visual poetry in catalan people literature....
. Tábara wrote several articles for their publication of the same name, Dau-al-Set. Dau-al-Set was connected with Surrealism and Dadaism and its members sought a connection to both the conscious and unconscious in their work. Dau-al-Set opposed both the Formalist Movement and the formal art centers. The group was inspired by the early works of Max Ernst
Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German Painting, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of Dada movement and Surrealism....
, Paul Klee
Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Switzerland Painting of Germany nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by many different art trends, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism....
, and Joan Miró.

In 1963, Tábara represented Ecuador together with Humberto Moré and Theo Constanté
Theo Constanté

Theo Constant? is a master List of Latin American artists who is a part of Informalismo. His works are abstract in nature and consist of many different colors which meld together amongst loosely drawn geometric lines....
 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris for the Third Biennial of Paris. By 1964, Tábara's work was being shown throughout Latin America, as well as Lausanne
Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....
, Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, Grenchen
Grenchen

Grenchen is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Lebern in the Cantons of Switzerland of Solothurn in Switzerland.It is located at the foot of the Jura mountains between Solothurn and Biel....
, Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
, Madrid
Madrid

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, Washington
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, New York
New York City

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 and Paris.

Return to Ecuador

After living and painting in Europe for over nine years Tábara felt that there was not enough being done in the name of Latin American Modern art so in 1964 he returned to Ecuador in search of a new aesthetic. Tábara reconnected to his roots through the Latin American current of "Ancestralism", which finds inspiration in pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the continent (third stage). Tábara is the first artist to use the Pre-Columbian motif as a search for a new aesthetic.

Shortly after returning to Ecuador, Tábara founded the Informalist art group, VAN, that was in opposition to the Indigenists. VAN had a double meaning, from the avant-garde term, Vanguard, as well as, the Spanish phrase "se van" meaning, "they are going". In other words, the artists were moving on, away from Guayasaminism and Indigenism that had been dominating the art scene of Ecuador for decades. VAN consisted of Tábara, Villacís
Aníbal Villacís

An?bal Villac?s is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials....
, Maldonado
Estuardo Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado a master Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the constructivism . Maldonado is a member of VAN, the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique T?bara....
, Cifuentes
Hugo Cifuentes

Hugo Cifuentes was a pioneering Latin American photographer.Cifuentes began studying drawing and painting in the 1940s, before turning to photography....
, Molinari
Molinari

Molinari is a family name that may refer to any of several people.* Alfonsina Molinari, a Puerto Rican actress and opera singer* Anna Molinari an Italian fashion designer, founder of Blumarine and other brands in the Blufin group...
, Almeida, and Muriel. VAN strongly opposed the Communist political views of Oswaldo Guayasamin
Oswaldo Guayasamín

Oswaldo Guayasam?n was an Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor. He was born in Quito to a native father and a Mestizo mother, both of Quechua descent....
 and was in a constant search of new artistic pathways while never losing a connection to their Pre-Columbian roots.

Patas-Patas

Finally, Tábara started to paint simple shapes inspired in nature, and also other simple structures, such as his famed "Patas-Patas", or Feet-Feet, as well as insects and shrubs. Tábara is most known for his Patas-Patas works which contain legs with feet incorporated into the piece. When asked about this subject matter, Tábara says that one day he was drawing a figure but he didn't like it, so he ripped it up and the feet of the figure landed at his feet, thus his fate. It has been suggested by some critics that Tábara's use of feet was possibly a subtle statement in opposition to Guayasamin's use of hands. In some of Tábara's Patas-Patas works, the legs are bold focal points that stand out clearly. In other works, the legs are more obscure or seem to be hidden within shrubs, bones or abstract forms.

Tábara is an artist who is in a constant, infinite search. He likes to experiment and live "pictorical adventures". He believes that in art one has to pose difficult problems for oneself and solve them on the canvas. Today, Tábara is considered one of the most important artists of the last century and has been lauded as a national treasure in Ecuador.

Tábara continues to paint with a vigorous spirit in his home town of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Barcelona is considered Tábara's home away from home.

Museums and collections


  • Museo de Arte de Lausanne, Laussanne, Switzerland.
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Museo de Arte Moderno de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Armada, Armanda, Portugal.
  • Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
  • Museo de la Universidad de Rio Piedras, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panamá.
  • Museo Juan Abello Mollet, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Museo Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
  • Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA.
  • Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA.
  • Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
  • Museo de Arte Moderno de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
  • Museo del Banco Central, Quito, Ecuador.
  • The Museum of American Art of Maldonado (MAAM), Maldonado, Uruguay.
  • Museo del Niño, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Museo de Arte del Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Museo de la Casa de la Cultura, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Museo de la Casa de la Cultura, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Museo Antropológico de Arte Contemporaneo (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Pumapungo Museum of the Central Bank of River Basin, River Basin, Ecuador.
  • Misrashi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Ortiz Leiva Gallery of Art, Glendale, California, USA.
  • Galeria Elite Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
  • Eugenia Cucalón Gallery, New York, New York, USA.
  • Museo de América, Madrid, Spain.
  • Collection of Carrie Adrian, New York, New York, USA.
  • Collection John & Barbara Duncan, New York, New York, USA.
  • Collection of Castle Cooke, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Collection of the Pan American Union, Washington, D. C., USA
  • Colección Galeria Goya, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Coleccion Sr. Jorge Eljuri, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Coleccion Sr. Georges Kasper, Laussane, Switzerland.
  • Coleccion Sr, René Metrás, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Coleccion Sr. Horst Moeller, Germany.


Individual and group exhibitions

  • 1953 Exposición Casa de la Cultura (N. del Guayas), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1954 Organization of American States
    Organization of American States

    The Organization of American States is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas....
     (OAS), Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
    , USA.
  • 1954 Segunda Exposición individual (primeras obras, no figurativas) Casa de la Cultura (N. del Guayas), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1956 Museo Municipal de Mataró (first exhibition in Spain).
  • 1956 Museo de Granollers (primeras pinturas de Materia) Spain.
  • 1956 Ayuntamiento de Sarria, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1957 Galerias Layetanas (30 pinturas), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1958 Ateneo Barcelones (dibujos obra en papel), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1958 Sala Gaspar (Club 49), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1959 Sala Neblí, Madrid, Spain.
  • 1959 Galería Kasper, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 1961 VI Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo
    São Paulo

    S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....
    , Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
    .
  • 1961 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1961 Galería Hilt, Basel
    Basel

    Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city . With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area , Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area....
    , Switzerland.
  • 1961 Restaurant Galería "La Perette", Milan, Italy.
  • 1962 Galería Falazik, Bochum
    Bochum

    Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and surrounded by the cities of Essen, Germany, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen....
    , Germany.
  • 1962 Nueva Galería Kunstlerhaus, Munich, Germany.
  • 1962 Galería Rottoff, Karlsruhe
    Karlsruhe

    Karlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the France-German border.Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany whose decisions have the force of a law, and the...
    , Germany.
  • 1962 Galería Brechbuhi, Grenchen
    Grenchen

    Grenchen is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Lebern in the Cantons of Switzerland of Solothurn in Switzerland.It is located at the foot of the Jura mountains between Solothurn and Biel....
    , Switzerland.
  • 1963 Galería Naviglio, Milan, Italy.
  • 1963 Diario de Noticias, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 1963 Galería René Metrás, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1963 Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • 1963 Galería Emmy Widman, Bremen
    Bremen

    Bremen is a Hanseatic League city in northwestern Germany . It is a port city, situated along the Weser River, about south from its mouth on the North Sea....
    , Germany.
  • 1963 Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (tintas y Aguadas), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1963 Galería Malelline, Vienna, Austria.
  • 1964 Galería René Metrás ( objetos y Pinturas ), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 1964 Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.

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    , USA.
  • 1965 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
  • 1965 Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1965 Galería Siglo XX, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1966 Museo de Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
    San Juan, Puerto Rico

    San Juan is the Capital and largest Municipalities of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico. As of the United States Census Bureau, it has a population of 433,733, making it the List of United States cities by population city under the jurisdiction of the United States....
    .
  • 1967 Universidad de Mayagues, Puerto Rico
  • 1967 Casa de la Cultura (obras de 1960 – 1967), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1968 Galería Contémpora, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1968 Galería Marta Traba, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1969 Galería Contempora, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1969 X Biennial de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 1970 Galería Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1971 Museo Municipal, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1972 Galería Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1972 Alianza Francesa, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1973 Alianza Francesa, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1973 XI Biennial de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 1973 Casa de la Cultura Nucleo del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador.
  • 1973 Colegio de Bellas Artes (25 años de Pintura) 1948 – 1973, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1974 Galelía Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1975 Galería Siglo XX, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1976 Galería Buchholz, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1976 Casa de la Cultura Nucleo del Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1976 Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
  • 1977 Museo del Banco Central "Persistencia de una Imagen", Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1979 Museo Municipal, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1979 Pasaje Arosemena (obra en papel), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1980 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1981 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1982 Casa de las Américas
    Casa de las Américas

    Casa de las Am?ricas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world....
    , La Habana, Cuba
    Cuba

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    .
  • 1984 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
  • 1985 Galería Sosa Larrea, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1985 Museo Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
  • 1985 Galería Perspectiv, a Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1986 Municipalidad de Machala, Machala, Ecuador.
  • 1986 Galerias Asociadas Sosa – Nesle, Quito, Ecuador .
  • 1986 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1987 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1987 Condominio Simón Bolivar
    Simón Bolívar

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    , Quevedo, Ecuador
    Quevedo, Ecuador

    Quevedo is a city in the coastal region of Ecuador. Located in Los Rios province. Its population is cited around 173,000. Located at 237 km SW of Quito , or, 183 km NE of Guayaquil ....
    .
  • 1988 Museo Rufino Tamayo, México D.F. México.
  • 1989 Homenaje al Arte Abstracto I, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San José, Costa Rica
    San José, Costa Rica

    San Jos? is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and is at the heart of Gran Area Metropolitana or GAM, located in the Costa Rican Central Valley....
  • 1989 Centro de Arte de la Sociedad Femenina de Cultura, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1989 Galería Manzana Verde, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1990 Galería Expresiones, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
  • 1990 Fundación Hallo "Homenaje a Tábara"
  • 1991 Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Perú
  • 1991 Seguros La Unión, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1992 Galeria Cucalón Feria Iberoamenricana, Caracas
    Caracas

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    , Venezuela
    Venezuela

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    .
  • 1994 Elite Fine Arts Galery, Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida

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    , United States.
  • 1994 Galería Todo Arte, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1997 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panamá.
  • 1997 Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
  • 1997 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
    Santiago, Chile

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    .
  • 1998 Centro Cultural Jorge Fernandez, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1998 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1998 Museo del Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1999 Museo del Niño, San José, Costa Rica.
  • 1999 Casona Universitaria (Retrospectiva), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1999 Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
    Cuenca, Ecuador

    Cuenca is the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population, and is the capital of the Azuay Province, Ecuador. It is located in the Sierra, the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500m above sea level....
    .
  • 1999 Galería Homonimus, Panama City
    Panama City

    Panama City is the Capital and largest city of the Panama. It has a population of 708,738, with a total metro population of 1,063,000, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at ....
    , Panamá.
  • 1999 Sala Miguel de Santiago (Casa de la Cultura B.C., Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2000 Sala Marta Traba, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2003 Bocetos de Tábara 1998-2003, La Galeria Mirador, Universidad Católica de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 2003 Museo Pedro de Osma Embajada del Ecuador en Lima, Lima
    Lima

    Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chill?n River, R?mac River and Lur?n River rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean....
    , Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    .
  • 2003 Embajada del Ecuador en Bolivia
    Bolivia

    The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
    .
  • 2004-2005 Sala Autoral-Enrique Tábara, Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo
    Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo

    Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo is a state-of-the-art museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrating Ecuadorian, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art and culture....
     (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 2005 Ceremony for the Museum of Art and Academic Senate (MuSA) at The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
  • 2005 The Ancestralismo, Tábara, Villacís
    Aníbal Villacís

    An?bal Villac?s is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials....
    , Viteri
    Oswaldo Viteri

    Oswaldo Viteri is a neo-figurative artist. Viteri gained recognition for his assemblage work but has worked in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking and mosaics....
     and Maldonado
    Estuardo Maldonado

    Estuardo Maldonado a master Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the constructivism . Maldonado is a member of VAN, the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique T?bara....
    , Museum of the Central Bank, River Basin, Ecuador.
  • 2005 Teatro Centro de Arte, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 2006 Monograph: The Work of Enrique Tábara, National Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2006 From Port to Port: Rendón, Tábara, & Gilbert
    Araceli Gilbert

    Araceli Gilbert was an Ecuadorian artist.Gilbert enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile in 1936, studying under Jorge Caballero and Hern?n Gazmurri, well-known encouragers of the Chilean plastic rebellion that later transformed into the Montparnasse group....
    , In Celebration of Ecuadorian Culture at The World Cup (Futbol), Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
    , Germany.
  • 2006 Guía de El Grabado Latinoamericano: La Evolución de la Identidad desde lo Mítico hasta lo Personal, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, California
    Long Beach, California

    Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
    , United States.
  • 2006 XII Fair de Libro Pacific, works by Tábara, Guayasamin, Kingman
    Eduardo Kingman

    Eduardo Kingman was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas....
    , Arauz & Villafuerte
    Juan Villafuerte

    Juan Villafuerte was an artist known for his transmutated drawings and paintings. Villafuerte is among the ranks of other prominent Latin American painters such as, Enrique T?bara, An?bal Villac?s, F?lix Arauz, Oswaldo Guayasamin, Hernan Zuniga and Jose Carre?o....
    , University of the Valley, Cali
    Santiago de Cali

    Santiago de Cali , often shortened to Cali, is the main city and capital of the Valle del Cauca, a department in western Colombia, also known as the Pacific Region....
    , Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    .
  • 2007-2008 Tábara: La Mirada Atenta. Museo de América, Madrid, Spain.
  • 2008 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Integration - Ecuadorian Embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany.


Awards and medals

  • 1960 Swiss Abstract Painting Prize, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 1964 Second Prize Hall - October, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1967 First Prize Hall - July, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1967 First Prize Hall Vanguard, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1968 Medal of Artistic Merit, Municipality of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1970 Gold Medal, First Hall Drawing, Watercolor and Tempera, House of the Culture, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 1972 Second Prize of Contemporary Gallery, "Virgin Santísima M. of God"
  • 1973 Gold Medal, 25 years of Painting Exhibition, School of Beautiful Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1988 National Prize of Culture - "Eugenio Espejo Prize" - presented by the President of Ecuador.
  • 1989 Second Prize, River Basin Biennial of International Painting - River Basin, Ecuador
  • 1994 Decoration to the Artistic Merit in the Degree of Commander by the Ecuadorian Government
  • 1997 Gold Brush, Association of the Rocks, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1998 Medal to the Cultural Merit (House of the Culture) Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1998 Medal of Honor of the National Congress by the 50th Anniversary of the Professional Trajectory of the Artist.
  • 1998 Decoration of the Museum Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1998 Alfredo Palacio
    Alfredo Palacio

    Not to be confused with the Argentine politician Alfredo Palacios.Luis Alfredo Palacio Gonz?lez served as President of Ecuador from April 2005 to January 2007....
     Prize (University of Guayaquil), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 1999 Gold Brush, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 2007 Nominee for the Velazquez
    Diego Velázquez

    Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez was a Spain painting who was the leading artist in the Noble court of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait painting....
     Prize of Plastic Arts 2007, presented by the crowned King of Spain.