{"id":5066,"date":"2014-10-15T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:51:52","slug":"vaea-supports-a-comprehensive-publication-of-venezuelan-artist-alejandro-otero-resonant-space-the-colorhythms-of-alejandro-otero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/vaea-supports-a-comprehensive-publication-of-venezuelan-artist-alejandro-otero-resonant-space-the-colorhythms-of-alejandro-otero\/","title":{"rendered":"VAEA supports a comprehensive publication of Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VAEA supports a comprehensive publication of Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero: Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero<\/h3>\n

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Caption: Alejandro Otero’s Coloritmos<\/p>\n

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New York, NY, October 14, 2014: The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts, VAEA, supports a comprehensive publication of Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero: Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero<\/i>. VAEA is also delighted to announce that the publication is now available<\/strong> in bookstores<\/strong> and online via<\/strong> amazon.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

The book was published on the occasion of Otero\u2019s first major solo exhibition in Brazil, also titled Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero,<\/i> presented by Instituto de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea in partnership with Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Nemirovsky and Pinacoteca do Estado. Curated by Rina Carvajal, the exhibition is the first outside of the artist\u2019s native Venezuela dedicated to the Colorhythms including a substantial number of works borrowed from public and private collections.<\/p>\n

The publication evaluates the place of the Colorhythms within Otero’s oeuvre and within the context of international geometric abstraction, a focus that has never been explored in a book on his work before. Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero<\/i> includes several essays that contextualize Otero\u2019s production through various perspectives including essays by Kaira M. Caba\u00f1as, Juan Ledezma, and Nadja Rottner, leading art historians from Latin America, the United States and Europe, as well as writings by the artist and early criticism of his work.<\/p>\n

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About Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero…<\/h3>\n

Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero is 250 pages, fully illustrated publication in English, focuses on the Venezuelan painter and sculptor Alejandro Otero (1921\u20131990) who was one of the most significant artists in the history of abstraction. The book includes illustrations of 48 works on paper and paintings by the artist, as well as essays about Otero\u2019s work by: Rina Carvajal, Kaira M. Caba\u00f1as, Juan Ledezma, Nadja Rottner, Inocente Palacios and Miguel Arroyo. This illuminating book, the first dedicated to Colorhythms, evaluates their place in Otero\u2019s practice and in the context of international geometric abstraction.<\/p>\n[\/onehalflast]\n

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About Alejandro Ote<\/b>ro…<\/b><\/h3>\n

Alejandro Otero<\/strong> is considered one of the most important kinetic artists from Venezuela, though his influence and involvement spanned multiple styles and movements. Otero was a painter and sculptor who worked at times in a style of geometric abstraction using grids for Op Art-like effects, and at other times using gestural linear representation. In 1950, Otero began to produce collages made of found materials, with a focus on color planes and gridded compositions. Some of these were later called orthogonal collages, and became the foundation for his Coloritmo (or Colorhythms), today considered to be one of his major contributions to the field of painting. Between 1955 and 1960, Otero developed an extraordinary series of 75 paintings called<\/p>\n

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Coloritmos (Colorhythms). Painted with Duco, a shiny industrial lacquer applied with a spray gun or roller, the Colorhythms are large-scale compositional modules executed on rectangular support structures. In these works, Otero succeeded in emphasizing rhythm and color over form; as a consequence of optical intensity, chromatic vibration, and the suggestion of rhythmic movement, the pictures seem to expand dynamically outward. In 1960, Otero abandoned painting to pursue large-scale \u201ccivic sculptures,\u201d and made works that were increasingly architectural. He was also the founder of Los Disidentes group of artists.<\/p>\n

Caption: Alejandro Otero among Colorhythms, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1960.<\/p>\n

To read the complete Press Release please Click Here: PR_AlejandroOtero<\/a><\/p>\n

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