Osvaldo Romberg

[7] He taught Painting and Color Theory at different universities in Argentina and Latin America until he was forced to flee the Argentine Dirty War, in 1973.

[10] His paintings, books, installations, films, and architectural watercolors have been exhibited internationally.

[15] Beginning in 1980, Romberg drew from the writing of analytic philosopher Thomas Kuhn to initiate this series by compressing multiple paradigms of Western painting – often abstraction and representation - onto a single canvas.

[16] Starting in 1986, Romberg began reconstructing at full scale the floor plans of historical, and often religious, architectural structures.

The protagonists are a life-size troupe of transparent marionettes, whose bodies are projection surfaces for the changing historical and metaphorical images that compose their constantly fluctuating identities.