"Magical Realism" is an artistic, pictorial and literary current that originated in the first half of the 20th century in South America. The term was coined by the art critic Franz Roh in 1925, to indicate a return to realist painting combined with a surrealist worldview.

 

Around the 1960s the tragedies and violence of the South American wars had changed the mentality of the people, in need of escaping from reality. The restless soul of the artists leads to painting elements that recall a distant past and difficult to recover: the imagination can be a lifeline for those who do not find any positive response in such a hostile world.