(b. Asunción, Paraguay, 1944).
Careaga studied at the Facultad de Arquitectura and the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Asunción. Along with fellow Paraguayans José Pratt (b. 1943), William Riquelme (b. 1944), and Angel Yegros (b. 1943), he founded the group Los Novísimos (The Very New) in 1964. The group adopted a particularly confrontational attitude in its drive to reject cultural isolation and promote ideas of the international avant-garde. Careaga also co-founded Asunción's Museum of Modern Art in 1965. His painting Construce, espacio-temporalis E.C.L.O.S. 1992, from the series Los caminos (The Roads) of 1992, demonstrates the coolly abstract style favored by the Novísimos. As evidenced by the date of this work, Careaga has produced original work from the '60s into the post-dictatorship era of the '90s. His works have generally been geometric and Constructivist. Sources:
Edward J. Sullivan, ed. Latin American
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