This series features various animals painted onto paper plates in a style which is characteristic of the way Centurión poeticised the quotidian. He combines the imagery of children’s books with the ready-made in a reflection of his enthusiasm for the aesthetics of mass consumption that swept through the Latin American middle classes in the 1960s. In 1989, Centurión found himself at the heart of a community of artists working in the orbit of the Rojas Gallery at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, part of the University of Buenos Aires. These artists shared a desire to incorporate a new kind of kitsch materiality in their work - using unconventional, cheap, colourful materials. This was motivated by a desire to create art that was ‘light’, to distance themselves from the heavy – politically charged – conceptualism of the 1970s. Some of these works show animals and plants native to the subtropical, Paraguayan jungle where the artist spent his childhood; others allude more to fantasy, and carefully blend nostalgia, memory, and imagination. Centurión’s choices of colour, pattern and material imbue his work with a light, youthful, almost childlike, sense of joy.