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Venezuelan Pavilion
The Venezuelan pavilion houses Venezuela's national pavilion, national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. It is located in the Giardini della Biennale. Background Organization and building The Biennale began in 1895. When it resumed after a break caused by World War II, Venezuela was invited to participate. The government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez agreed to fund a national pavilion, the first for a Latin American country. Designed by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, it was built between 1953 and 1956. Representation by year Art * 1954 — Armando Reverón * 1956 — Mateo Manaure * 1958 — Régulo Pérez * 1960 — Hector Poleo * 1962 — Oswaldo Vigas * 1964 — Jesús Rafael Soto * 1970 — Carlos Cruz-Diez * 1978 — Luisa Richter * 1980 — Oswaldo Subero * 1988 — Jacobo Borges * 1990 — Julio Pacheco Rivas * 1995 — Meyer Vaisman * 1999 — Victor Lucena * 2005 — Santiago Pol (Commissioner: Vivian Rivas Gingerich) * 2007 — An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 17, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter. His works can be found in the collections of the main museums of the world, including Tate (London), Museum Ludwig (Germany), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Roma) and MoMA (New York). One of the main museums of art in Venezuela, in his home town, has his name in tribute to him. Early life Jesús Rafael Soto was born in Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela. The eldest of four children born to Emma Soto and Luis Garcia Parra, a violin player. From a very young age, Soto wanted to help support his family anyway he could, but art was the most interesting to him. He picked up the guitar and also began recreating famous pieces of art that he found in various books, magazines and almanacs. At 16, Soto started his serious artistic career when he began to create and paint posters for the cinemas in Ciudad Bolivar. "''At that age - say ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artnet News
Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City, in the United States, and is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly traded company based in Berlin that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company increased revenues by 25.3% to 17.3 million EUR in 2015 compared with a year before. Company history The company was founded as Centrox Corporation in 1989 by Pierre Sernet, a French collector who developed database software which allowed images of artworks to be associated with market prices. Hans Neuendorf Hans Neuendorf (born 1937) is a German entrepreneur and art dealer. Biography Neuendorf was born in 1937 and grew up during World War II. He started in the art business as a teenager, later hosting the first art pop exhibition in Germany. H ..., a German art dealer, began to invest in the company in the 1990s; he became chairman in 1992 and chief executive officer in 1995. That ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ArtAsiaPacific
''ArtAsiaPacific'' is the longest running English-language periodical solely dedicated to covering contemporary art and culture from sixty-seven countries, territories, and Chinese Special Administrative Regions that it considers to be within Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East. It is published six times a year and is distributed internationally. A regular issue includes feature-length articles on artists, themes or events; essays; profiles on artists or collectors; reviews of biennials, exhibitions, art publications and films; news including obituaries and appointments; auction and art fair reports; and previews of shows. ''ArtAsiaPacific'' produces an annual almanac edition, published in January, which surveys the past year in the 67 countries and territories covered in the magazine. In addition to news, exhibition, festival and country reports, the almanac includes reports on five outstanding artists from the previous year and one promising artist for the next year, and ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieze (magazine)
''frieze'' is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year from London. History ''frieze'' was founded in 1991 by Frieze Art Fair founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover with artist Tom Gidley. A Damien Hirst butterfly painting was featured in the first ''frieze'' issue. When ''frieze'' began both Sharp and Slotover served as editors, but ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. In 2003, the year that Frieze Art Fair was founded, Sharp and Slotover assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and Directors of the fair. Sharp and Slotover maintain the overall direction of both the art fair and the magazine, but editorial decisions are made by the Editor Andrew Durbin and the Deputy Editor Amy Sherlock; Jennifer Higgie is the editor at large. In 2008, for the first time the talks programme at Frieze Art Fair was organised by the magazine editors. In 2016, Endeavor – a Hollywood-based entertainment group – acquired a reported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. History and operations The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'' and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as ''American Art News''. From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as ''The Art News'' then ''ARTnews''. The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto, Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr, Doug McClemont and Museum of Moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Calzadilla
Juan Calzadilla (Altagracia de Orituco, 1931) is a Venezuelan poet, painter, and art critic. Education He studied in the Universidad Central de Venezuela and in the Instituto Pedagógico Nacional. Artistic Life He is co-founder of the group El techo de la ballena (1961), and Imagen magazine (1984). Calzadilla represented Venezuela at the 57th Venice Art Biennale. Works *''Dictado por la jauría'' (1962) *''Malos modales'' (1968) *''Oh smog'' (1978) *''Antología paralela'' (1988) *''Minimales'' (1993) *''Principios de Urbanidad'' (1997) *''Corpolario'' (1998) *''Diario sin sujeto'' (1999) *''Aforemas'' (2004) * ''Vela de armas'' (2008) * ''Noticias del alud'' (2009) Awards * National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela is an annual award given to various artists from that country, specifically the field of drawing, printmaking and drawing pictorial. It is one of the National Culture Awards. The reward is delivered con ..., 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Briceño
Antonio Briceño (born 5 December 1966) is a Venezuelan photographer and activist for environmental issues, ethnic minorities, and human rights. He has a graduate degree in biology from the Central University of Venezuela and a master's degree in Digital Arts from the Pompeu Fabra University. He is the co-founder of the conservationist nongovernmental organization PROVITA. Biography Briceño was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His passion for photography began when he was a teenager. He first exhibited his work in 1987. Between 1996 and 2002, he carried out several solo exhibitions, relating to the following topics: ''Veils and Turbans'' (1996, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi); ''Passengers'' (a series that won him First Prize in the ''Luis Felipe Toro Prize'' and which was exhibited in Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas), Caracas' Museum of Fine Arts in 1997); ''Devotion'' (a series that depicts different forms of popular religious beliefs in Venezuela, which was shown at ''Galer� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobo Borges
Jacobo Borges (born 28 November 1931 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a contemporary, neo-figurative Latin- American artist. His curiosity for exploring different mediums made him a painter, drawer, film director, stage designer and plastic artist. Known for his ever-evolving style, there is one constant principle that unites his work: "the search for the creation of space somewhere between dreams and reality where everything has happened, happens, and may happen."Borges, Jacobo. 60 Paintings by Jacobo Borges: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo: Mexico City, Mexico August–October 1987: from Fishing to the Mirror of waters. onterey, Mexico: Museo de Monterey, 1987 His theoretical approach and unique, innovative technique has won him acclaim all over the world. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Britain and the United States. Today, he is considered one of the most accomplished artist of Latin America.Maddicks, R. Vene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Richter
Luisa Richter (June 30, 1928 - October 29, 2015) born Louise Kaelble, was a Venezuelan-based graphic artist and professor originally from Germany. She was born in Besigheim, Germany and died in Caracas, Venezuela. Her art was heavily influenced by post-war movements and Bauhaus. She later moved to Venezuela in 1955 where she spent the rest of her life, won many awards International awards, became a professor at the Neumann Institute in Caracas, and founded Prodiseño, one of the biggest graphic design schools in Venezuela. Early life Born in Besigheim, Germany in 1928 Richter was the daughter of engineer and architect Albert Kaelble and Gertrud Unkel. In 1946 she studied at the März en Stuttgart Academy in Germany and started her career as an artist at The Independent School of Art in Stuttgart. Between 1949 and 1955 she studied under the guidance of her master Willi Baumeister (one of the main figures in abstract art in Europe back then) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century." Exhibitions * ''Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965'', Galerie Kerchache, Paris, France, 1965. * ''Cordoba Has III Bienal Interamericana de Arte'', Cordoba, Argentina, October 1966. * ''Physichromies, Couleur Additive, Induction Chromatique, Chromointerferences'', Galerie Denise René, 1971, New York, NY. * Venezuelan Art Show presented by the Consulate General of Venezuela, Galeria Venezuela, New York, NY, October 1980. * ''Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricica Phelps de Cisneros Collection'', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August–November 2001. * ''Geométriques et cinétiques'', Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brésil Cruz-Diez, Galerie d'art de Créteil, France. Cruz-Diez, Galerie Lavigne Bastille, Paris, 2002. * ''Couleur évén ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswaldo Vigas
Oswaldo Vigas (August 4, 1926 – April 22, 2014) was a Venezuelan artist, best known as a self-taught painter and muralist. His work includes painting, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics and tapestries. His artwork was created in France and Venezuela. He had over one hundred solo exhibitions and is represented in numerous public institutions and private collections around the world. Early life and education Oswaldo Vigas was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela on August 4, 1926. He identified as ''mestizo'', a term for a person of mixed indigenous and Spanish heritage. He started painting the human body at the age of 12, when his father died. He went to college and studied medicine at the University of the Andes (Venezuela) (Universidad de los Andes) and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, hoping to be a pediatrician. He received a degree in 1951. While studying, he took several art classes at the Taller Libre de Artes and attended the Escuela de Arte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
