Unlike Picasso who was commissioned to paint a picture of the bombing of Guernica, the painter Osado, produced on her own initiative, the monumental work of 11 pieces, which represents the explosion of the bombs that caused 193 deaths in Madrid, on the 11th of March 2004.

March 11, 2022 marked the 18th anniversary of the 11M terrorist attacks in Madrid (2004).

In 2005, on the first anniversary, Osado carried out the work, 'Apocalyptic Memory II' and it was exhibited at the Áurea Art Gallery - Madrid Art Centre.

Osado called a numerous of Spanish artists to participate in the exhibition, uniting their works for the event. (Published by journalist Fernando Samaniego in El Pais on March 12, 2005)

Osado, as President of the Association of Realist Painters of Spain, donates the entire exhibition to the 11M Association 'Affected by Terrorism' chaired by its founder Pilar Manjón.

In 2007, Osado proposed the project to the Human Rights Office of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and on July 18. With the collaboration of the Ministry of Public Works (AENA), the International Exhibition 'Testimonies of Art' was held at the Hall of Lost Steps at the University of Law and at the National University Institute of Art (IUNA) in Buenos Aires.

The artist discovered a Psycho-philosophical approach that led her to ‘see’ that the social realities of a space are reflected as in a giant mirror, projecting themselves to other spaces in the world. This approach she called ‘Virtual Realism.’

Osado's sensitivity to everything around led her to permanently investigate modes of existence, religion, the human being, and her role in the world. 

Through ethics, she investigated the parallelism between the history of art and the history of humanity.

At the beginning of her work, Osado poses magical realism, a current promoted by the French critic Pierre Restany.

During her artistic career, she studied Dürer's perspective, making complex compositions and researching spaces, thus reaching cyberspace.

In 1999 she writes ‘The Manifestation of "Virtual Realism’. Some of the works that she made in that period are ´Real-virtual’ the triptych ‘Time and Space I’, ‘Time and Space II’ and ‘Time and Space III, (year 1980).

In 1980, Osado was only 23 years old when the art critic Rafael Esquirru and the Master Hector Giuffré visited her studio, who recognized the artist's talents.

Following the approach of virtual realism, Osado begins to make works on the social reality of her historical present and her space (Argentina under the military dictatorship).

She investigated the social and political reality of the crimes of the Argentine dictatorship, finding that it was projected throughout South America.

Some of the works of that period are: the series ‘The land that saw me born’, ‘Time of Calamity’, ‘The Holy Field of Consciences’, ‘Without Identity’, ‘Requiem’, ‘The Death of Love’, ‘The Gray Series’, ‘Nobody Listens’, ‘Nobody Sees’, ‘Born in captivity’, ‘Freedom and Justice’, ‘Apparition Alive’, ‘For the Food’, ‘NN’, Soldier of Malvinas’ and ‘Unknown Argentine Soldier’ …

CENSORSHIP OF THE DICTATORSHIP

Her works was silent during the period of the Argentine military dictatorship and his works were not admitted to art galleries or museums.

During the decade between 1980 and 1990, during the period of the Argentine military dictatorship, Osado worked in secret and in silence with a series of paintings that conveyed 'virtually real' messages. During all this time, no artwork of hers was admitted for exhibition in art galleries and museums. In 1998, Osado went into exile in Spain with her family. 

Osado passed away in February 2010 leaving a void in the art world, but her works will live on for eternity and her thoughts will never die.

Apocalyptical  Memories by Osado

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