Saltamontes de Caracas III
Creativ Productions Almakultevo C.A. und die Galerie ardizón präsentieren den dritten Teil der Ausstellungsserie »Saltamontes de Caracas«, Kunst aus Venezuela. Das Land ist in den Medien bekannt durch Erdöl, Hugo Chavez und die Bolivarianische Revolution. Diese Ausstellung lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf den bildnerischen Bereich Venezuelas. Der künstlerische Ausdruck setzt sich oft über die klassischen Regeln von Malerei, Bildhauerei und der gewöhnlichen Interpretation von Kunst im Allgemeinen hinweg. Vor allem der Mangel an Normalität fordert ein hohes Maß an Eigen- kreativität und hat einen stetigen Wandel zur Folge; So bringen sechs außergewöhnliche Menschen ihre Deutungen des existenziellen Wahnsinns, welcher das Leben in so einem ungewöhnlichen multikulturellen Land wie Venezuela einschließt, in diese Ausstellung ein.
Es ist wie eine interne Betrachtung des urbanen Dschungel Caracas, wo Nostalgie mit dem Unberechenbaren vermengt ist. Im Rahmen dieser Zusammenarbeit ist eine Ausstellung mit österreichischen Künstlern in Caracas geplant.
Carlos Zerpa
*1950 Valencia, Venezuela»All my art work is about childhood memories«
Carlos Zerpa expresses himself through installations, assemblages, glass cases and paintings. His production is characterized by the use of traditional iconographies, in his own fashion or as part of collages; violent colors, irony an opposition between kitsch and aggressiveness.
Carlos Zerpa was born into a family of department-store owners. He moved to Milan, Italy in 1973 to study printmaking and photography at the Scuola Cova, and later he studied design with Bruno Munari at the Instituto Politécnico. Largely self-taught as a painter, he was by 1974 creating installations and performance pieces. In 1980 he return to Valencia and began making regular trips to New York, where he lived from 1982 to 1984, and again in 1992 to 1994.
Returning to Venezuela in 1984, he ceased performing to focus on making objects. Autobiographical in nature, his work recalls department-store display cases, which serve as settings for his homage's to the past. During his childhood in the 1950s, Zerpa was influenced by American popular culture, including comic strips and television. These images appear with bolero lyrics, found objects and emblems, and Christian imagery. His display cases are like altars for reconstructed memories and idolized objects. In the 1970s, Venezuelan artist Carlos Zerpa used his country's flag for a series of irreverent performances dealing with a variety of national icons, among them miracle doctor José Gregorio Hernández, earning him state prosecution.
Elio Urdanetta
1979* Caracas, Venezuela
Lihie Talmor
*1944 Tel-Aviv Israel
Samantha Mesones
*1979 Caracas Venezuela
Norma Morales
1960* Caracas, Venezuela
Antonio Castillo
1957* Caracas, Venezuela
Cecilia Hecht
*1948 Caracas, Venezuela
1974 Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, Bar Ilan University. Tel Aviv, Israel.
1977 Cristobal Rojas School of Visual Arts. Caracas, Venezuela.
1982 Visual Arts, Instituto Universitario Pedagógico. Caracas, Venezuela.
1992 Art Studies, Instituto de Arte Federico Brandt. Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 Lives and works in Miami Florida.
