By The Star Staff
The Puerto Rican Institute of Culture (ICP by its initials in Spanish) announced that the exhibition “A Place for Us,” by the master Raimundo Figueroa, will open on Thursday, March 6, at 6 p.m. at the Old Spanish Navy Arsenal on La Puntilla Street in Old San Juan.
The exhibition, which is part of the ICP’s Visual Arts Program calendar, will be open to the public free of charge from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until April 18.
“This exhibition, one of the largest of his work to date, celebrates Figueroa’s contribution to contemporary art,” said ICP Executive Director Carlos Ruiz. “His work, which fuses abstraction and figuration, enriches our understanding of art and invites us to explore human psychology. We are proud to share this artistic experience with the public. We invite everyone to visit the exhibition and enjoy this extraordinary artistic career.”
“A Place for Us” (Un Lugar para Nosotros) is one of the largest exhibitions of Figueroa’s work to date. It includes more than 60 paintings, collages and drawings created over the past 30 years. The comprehensive exhibition includes the artist’s most recent paintings and works on paper from 2019 to 2024, in conversation with earlier pieces dating back to 1994. The works range from intimate notebooks to layered mixed media collages and paintings that are expansive, multi-paneled, and environmental in scale, all carefully selected to allow the viewer to follow the development of his themes and creativity over the years.
Figueroa’s work invites introspective reflection on the meaning of the exhibition title, both on a personal and collective level.
“Three decades ago, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture welcomed Raimundo Figueroa into its halls for the first time,” noted ICP Visual Arts Program Director María del Mar Caragol. “The exhibitions that he has presented since then with the Visual Arts Program reflect the evolution of his work and are enriched by this new comprehensive show.”
Figueroa is a prominent Puerto Rican artist with training in painting and violin. He studied at prestigious institutions and has participated in international exhibitions and biennials for more than 40 years. Initially influenced by postwar abstraction, he developed a distinctive style that fluctuates between abstraction and figuration. His work is deeply interconnected by Jungian psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophers, using art as a spiritual medium. Figueroa combines balance, color and harmony in his compositions, creating vibrant surfaces and bold graphic gestures.
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