FERNANDO CARBALLO (1941)

"It is necessary to affirm that Fernando Carballo is a mature artist; one of the most important artists of our country and Mesoamerica. His work can be admired with a chronologic sense in which they prevail the quality, overcomes of all the isthmuses, but that truly shows that the art surpasses the reality, when it becomes in the most absolute expression of the real imaginary." (La Prensa Libre, Newspaper, July 1998).

Thanks to the above mentioned skills, Fernando Carballo’s artwork has been exhibited in countries as Austria, Spain, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Taiwan as well as in the United States, including exhibits organized by Harvard University, Organization of American States and UNESCO. Had earn, important recognitions as the Aquileo J. Echeverría Prize of Costa Rica in drawing and painting.