Posted in Arts & Culture, tagged Art, culture, Edgar Ace Gallery, entertainment, florida, latin american culture, Maracaibo, Miami, Nestor Paz, painting, sculpture, Textures of the Soul, venezuela, Venezuelan artists, Venezuelan culture, Zulia on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re in the Miami area this Saturday, check out an exhibit by Nestor Paz called “Textures of the Soul” at the Edgar Ace Gallery. Above is one of his canvasses entitled El Venus en la cama (Venus in bed).
Paz is a native of Venezuela, and has been an artist since early childhood. He studied painting and sculpture at the Conservatoria Cultural de Zulia and graduated from the Universidad Cecilio Acosta in the city of Maracaibo.
The exhibit is noted today in a Miami Herald blog.
Posted in Arts & Culture, tagged Americas Society, Art, artists, arts, Carlos Cruz Diez, Chromosaturation, color, Estrellita Brodsky, Kinetic Art, l.a. times, latin america, latin american art, museum of modern art, New York, New York exhibits, Venezuelan Art, Venezuelan artists on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Called “one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters,” Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz Diez, age 85, works with the eye’s perception of color. His current exhibit at the Americas Society in New York is his first major solo show in the U.S.
The installation “Chromosaturation” features 3 white-walled rooms saturated with colored lights. The colors appear to change and blend as the viewer walks through the rooms and participates in a “direct chromatic experience.”
“Cruz Diez is considered a pioneer in the use of color as a participatory tool as well as a visionary who pushed the boundaries of art towards everyday life,” according to the website of the Americas Society.
The exhibit runs until January 2009.
Click here to read an artist profile, find out the location of the gallery, and get links to videos and a panel discussion about the work of Cruz Diez.
Check out this article from the Los Angeles Times with great photos!
Posted in Arts & Culture, tagged Art, Art All Around, artists, caracas, Gili, Jaime Gili, Maine, Modern Museum of Art, public art, Venezuelan Art, Venezuelan artists, Venezuelan arts on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jaime Gili of Venezuela has been called “one of the hottest global artists”. Gili made headlines recently when he won the “Art All Around” contest in Portland, Maine. His design to enliven an industrial area was selected from 560 entries from 73 countries received by the Maine Center for Creativity.
Designing Maine’s public art project came easy for Jaime Gili, who grew up in Caracas, a city full of art, ranging from sculpture and murals to graffiti. Gili explained, “I grew up in Venezuela seeing lots of urban art and and public commissions being made mostly by artists who were active in the ’50s and ’60s, the ’70s. There’s a lot of optical art in this tradition.”
Gili now lives and works in London, where he is a featured artist at the Riflemaker Gallery. In an homage to art and architecture in Caracas, he created “Ruta Rota”, a dislpay of colorful geometric shapes on a 1970s edifice in London’s Cheapside. Recently, he created works of art inspired by the multi-colored stickers sported by the motorcycle taxi drivers of Caracas.
Jaime Gili has also done several projects to help create ties between artists and art groups in Europe and Latin America. To watch a video of the artist explaining his work and see images of the project in Maine, click here. Also, check out his website.
