The catalogue cover of the exhibition in the Rioboo-Nueva gallery reproduces Sylvester 2

by the pictorial fiction, a combination that increases the ambiguity and instability of the compositions. For these works, the classic painting canvass was too fragile, and so he uses wooden frames, sailcloth and stucco, a cumbersome procedure due to the lack of malleability of the base material.

Together with another 43 young artists, among whom are Nelson Blanco, Héctor Borla, Delia Cancela, Zulema Ciordia, Delia Cugat, Ricardo Garabito, Narcisa Hirsh, Pablo Mesejeán, César Paternosto, Néstor Pellegrini, Alfredo Portillos, Dalila –later Delia– Puzzovio, and Carlos Uría, he takes part in Premio Ver y Estimar (Ver y Estimar Prize), which is held in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Basilio Uribe takes an interest in his work, comparing it to expressionist artistic models, and he predicts a promising future for him as a painter. Three decades later, the artist would state the following about that period:

“There is nothing left from my early paintings during the years of Ver y Estimar. There might be a painting or two lost in some friend’s house. Years later, in a merciful act, and out of arrogance as well, I burnt those works.