“Ojeda’s
images are bold and direct in their execution and
delicate in their presence. His is a force and a good representation
of the serious talent from Uruguay.”
Antonio Frasconi, Artist |
“Ojeda develops well the symbolic desire to achieve a concrete image for amorphous ideas: the indefiniteness of love, the uncertainty of our place on earth, the preeminence of poetry and beauty, woman's apparition. These are expressed in keys that have the virtue of recodifying the old metaphors. Ojeda’s works are praiseworthy, attracting the spectator glutted by the incomprehensible, ever more in need of a sanitation of images and the practice of certain visual ecology.” Marta Traba, Art Historian |
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“Ojeda's woodcuts are charming, unpretentious, touched with fantasy and humor. There is something poignant in his art, something bittersweet.” Paul Richard, The Washington Post |
“In fact, he is a Latin American Chagall, whose tender floating reveries of home, of separation, displacement and reunion give unique and poetic visual form to the late 20th century immigrant experience - something most of us remain woefully oblivious to.” Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post |
“What I say about Naúl’s woodcuts is: I believe them. They say to me:‘'We sleep in the wood as the sun sleeps in the night, and Naúl’s hand looked for us, touched us and awakened us.’ This is what the woodcuts tell me. And I believe them.”
Ëduardo
Galeano
Uruguayan
writer