Miguel Braceli
MIGUEL BRACELI Biografia Se gradúa como Arquitecto de la Universidad Central De Venezuela en el año 2007. Mención Honorífica: Magna Cum Laude, obteniendo el primer decil de su promoción. En el año 2013 recibe el título de M.Sc. en Diseño Arquitectónico de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, con un reconocimiento por su tesis [...]
Agnes Martin
Biography Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) American painter of Canadian birth. She grew up in Vancouver and moved to the USA in 1932, taking American citizenship in 1940. She began making art in the early 1940s, while living in New York, where she studied at Columbia University (1941–2, 1951–2) and [...]
Muu Blanco
Artist Statement For over a decade Muu Blanco has been producing a series of works that revolve around performance. Whether they are drawings, photos, video, film, sculpture, installations, electronic music drama, his work anchors on a moment - the concept of causality, rather than the object itself. One of his best-known works, Parlamento (1995), springs [...]
Gego
GEGO (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Hamburg 1912 – Caracas 1994. Gego was born in the German city of Hamburg in August 1912 and graduated as an engineer with a specialty in architecture at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1938. One year later she emigrated to Venezuela. In 1956 in Caracas, thanks to the encouragement [...]
Alejandro Otero
Alejandro Otero Born in El Manteco, Bolívar, Venezuela 1921 – Caracas, Venezuela 1990 Hoy en día, la pintura abstracta trata de salirse del marco del cuadro para integrarse y transformar la realidad misma. Convertida en ella y no en su semejanza, se prepara para ayudarnos corporal y espiritualmente, cumpliendo como arte de creación la necesidad [...]
Francisco Salazar
Francisco Salazar Born in 1937. Quiriquire, Monagas, Venezuela. “For an artwork to be abstract, it must incorporate the principles of construction. Real materials in real space have spatial design. Abstract art opens a new era regarding the use of materials, the matter being itself a source of technical novelty.” F.S. Amongst the mid century Venezuelan [...]
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez Born 1923, Venezuela “Art is a complex structure of communication, expression, discovery, invention.” Born in Caracas, Carlos Cruz-Diez first studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas from 1940 to 1945. While studying there, he participated in a lively discussion group which included artists Jesús-Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero, key figures [...]
Arturo Herrera
Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) Arturo Herrera is a Venezuelan visual artist, born in 1959, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. He lives and works between New York City and Berlin, Germany. Herrera received a BA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. [...]
Jesus Rafael Soto
Jesus Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 - January 14, 2005) Venezuelan sculptor and painter, and one of the principal founders of op and kinetic art movement. “The function of any work of art is to stimulate reflection; its interest is highly conceptual, although the artist must resort to sensorial means to make his concepts clear.” [...]
Marilyn Birchfield
MARILYN BIRCHFIELD Biography Marilyn Birchfield, film and video Director and Producer from Venezuela was born on the island of Trinidad and Tobago to Venezuelan and North American parents. At an early age the family moved to the United States where she finished her formal education, receiving a Masters Degree (cum laude) in Mass Communication from [...]