Description of artwork:
[This painting is] part of Christian Vinck's series titled Según el Archivo General de Indias. The archive (Archivo General de las Indias), whose contents Vinck re-examines, is located in Seville, Spain and contains the administrative documentation of the overseas colonies. In creating his painted versions of the archival material, Vinck effectively re-patriates some of his country’s history to his studio in Venezuela…

Bombardeo de la Guaira…re-positions a colonial image. This painting shifts the narrative from one that originally records a colonial struggle for control of the port of La Guaira to one that recollects the beauty and drama of the landscape. Vinck...uses a landscape palette dominated by blue and green, and applies it with a free brush. This re-interpreted version is much larger than the original, and by relocating it from a flat, horizontal surface to the wall, he turns an image that was meant to be factual into a suggested fiction.

(Source: Catalogue for the exhibition Portadores de sentido)