Asdrúbal Colmenárez (born 1936, in

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) is a

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. He was first invited to represent Venezuela at the Paris Art Biennale in 1969. In 1970 he won a

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ship from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York City. Besides being an artist, Colmenárez was professor of

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at the Université de Vincennes, Paris beginning in 1973. Colmenárez represented his country at the

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Art Biennale in 1983 and 1985. For more than 40 years, Colmenárez has based his investigations around the "event". An art piece acquires

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ial magnitude when the spectator has been stimulated and provided with certain tools to create and manipulate. These works are mostly "Psycho-magnetic Tactiles" (started in 1970) and Psychorelatives" (begun in 1972). Colmenárez works and lives in Paris and

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References

*Museo de arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, book 1998, legal deposition If25219987002034 *John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundatio

* Banco Central de Venezuela, Collection of Art Lis

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