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The title, Guardians of the Sea, suggests these hybrid beings as sentient protectors rather than prey — a tension that echoes Escobar's nature-rooted practice and his characteristic knife-finished surfaces animating form from chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francisco Escobar","offers":[{"title":"180x150 cm","offer_id":39879030833265,"sku":"1002","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/guardianes-del-mar-francisco-escobar-232212.jpg?v=1703713298"},{"product_id":"akelarre","title":"AKELARRE","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour nude female figures move in procession against a blazing field of orange and red, framed by a spiked solar arc; a crowned central figure leads while a horned creature lurks at right and a framed portrait watches from the upper left. Palomino works in loose, expressive oil with warm flesh tones set against saturated reds, blues striping the foreground, and raw, sketch-like contours. \u003cem\u003eAkelarre\u003c\/em\u003e — the Basque word for a witches' sabbath — charges the scene with ritual energy, linking Palomino's deep engagement with folklore and cultural myth to a distinctly female, ceremonial power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marita Palomino","offers":[{"title":"100x120 cm","offer_id":39934009049201,"sku":"1012","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/akelarre-marita-palomino-957075.jpg?v=1703713295"},{"product_id":"de-blue","title":"DE BLUE","description":"\u003cp\u003eDE BLUE suspends geometric fragments — zigzagging outlines, angular planes, and loose rectangular blocks — across an expansive teal field that shifts from deep aquamarine to chalky lavender mist. Acrylic is applied in broad, atmospheric washes layered beneath crisp drawn lines, with accent notes of yellow, orange, and red punctuating the cool dominance. Varela’s theater background surfaces here: these fractured shapes read less like objects than like figures mid-movement, caught between emergence and dissolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victor Varela","offers":[{"title":"150x121 cm","offer_id":39879033159793,"sku":"1013","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/de-blue-victor-varela-469744.jpg?v=1703713295"},{"product_id":"alegria-mexicana","title":"ALEGRIA MEXICANA (MEXICAN JOY)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree folklórico dancers fill the frame — a man in a wide-brimmed sombrero flanked by two women whose skirts spin outward in great arcs of cobalt blue and emerald green trimmed with white lace. Löwenberg works in flat, hard-edged fields of saturated color, pressing primary hues against deep blacks to create maximum contrast with no visible brushwork. The title names what the composition enacts: pure collective joy rendered as centrifugal force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monica Lowenberg","offers":[{"title":"140x170 cm","offer_id":39879034077297,"sku":"1019","price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/alegria-mexicana-mexican-joy-monica-lowenberg-824276.jpg?v=1703713299"},{"product_id":"engano","title":"ENGANO","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree women press close together, each face rendered in fractured planes of cerulean, teal, and amber-gold, their braided hair and patterned bowler hats signaling Andean identity. Aragrev builds chromatic depth through her layered Color Wash technique, stacking acrylics until the browns of the background glow with embedded pre-Columbian motifs. 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Salvador builds the scene in tightly interlocked forms, working a palette of raw sienna, blush pink, and cream accented by flickers of red and lotus-flower rose. *Yawar Tukuy* — Quechua for \"blood ends\" — evokes the Andean ritual of the *Yawar Fiesta*, where the bull confrontation carries communal and cosmological weight, and here the eclipse above suggests a reckoning both earthly and celestial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victor Salvador","offers":[{"title":"150x130 cm","offer_id":39879035814001,"sku":"1029","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/yawar-tukuy-victor-salvador-628638.jpg?v=1703713545"},{"product_id":"bravo-1","title":"BRAVO 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eA single monumental wave unfurls across a wide horizontal canvas, its crest dissolving into arcs of deep cobalt, electric blue, and crimson-flushed white. 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The collision of documentary precision and urban mark-making is central to Vargas's engagement with Lima's streetscape, where the word \"sabes\"—Spanish for \"you know\"—turns the vehicle into a charged, vernacular statement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Vargas","offers":[{"title":"100x180 cm","offer_id":39882418159729,"sku":"1049","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/7864\/9969\/products\/electric-blue-daniel-vargas-970450.jpg?v=1703713295"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.latinamericagallery.com\/collections\/featured-works.oembed","provider":"Latin America Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}