Frank Hyder has long been related to Latin America. He has visited Venezuela regularly for over ten years, he has lived with his family in this country and successfully exhibited in our most important museums. It does not go unnoticed that an America artist fills an exhibition site with the tropical colors and energy of this land and its people. It is the image of common ancestors, shared customs and a more united world.

To catalogue Frank Hyder as an artist who simply focuses on the ecological is to shed little light on the obsessions and concerns that make a body of work that is so effectively contemporary. His wood carvings - gesturally intervened and reproducing altars, sheds or boxes, objects with a clear ritualistic content - clearly manifest his concern for the highly precarious relation between man and nature. His approach to the ancestral does not occur as an insurgence vis a vis technology or globality, but rather ventures a dialogue with the multicultural.