ARTIST SIGNED MANUEL QUINTANA CASTILLO NUMBERED PRINT 80/100

Description: Born and death in Venezuela (1928-2016).He studied in the School of Plastic and Applied Arts of Caracas between 1946 and 1949. After discovering in 1949 the book by Joaquín Torres García, Constructive Universalism, he realized in 1951, works where he explores the manual and sensitive geometry of the Uruguayan painter who, together with the Precepts of Rufino Tamayo and Paul Klee, lead him to establish the first principles of bidimensionality. "Neocubismo provided the platform for investigating forms, masks, geometry and a painting of space that would conform the elements of its plastic language of the mid-seventies." In this stage, which is related to magical realism, Quintana Castillo constructs the figures geometrically on a background without relief and wrapped in a dreamlike atmosphere, that year represented Venezuela in the Biennial of Venice. In 1956 his work is sent to the III São Paulo Biennial. The artistic production of the years after teaching, are oriented towards geometric abstraction. In 1976 he participated in "Kunst der Gegenwart aus Latinamerika, Kongrebjall am oistiengang" (Germany), with Carlos Cruz-Diez, Oswaldo Vigas, Luisa Richter and Ivan Petrovszky. Since the beginning of the nineties, the painter's works have investigated the textures of color and the abundance of material achieved with layers superimposed. In 1993 he presented himself at the Altamira Gallery in Caracas with "Topological Paintings", works in large format. Juan Carlos Palenzuela wrote in the catalog: "Among the signs that persist in the painting of Quintana Castillo, the line is the key element of his pictorial writing, the line that appears and disappears from the surface, which is border and center; Light and color, which is firm and atmosphere and which, when passing from one painting to another, forms the basis of his most recent series, the sense of continuity in Topological Painting and White Reduction Manuel Quintana CastilloManuel Quintana CastilloBorn in January 06,1928 in Caucagua, Estado Miranda, Venezuela. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1961 "Paintings 1954 - 1961". Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1969"Reunion with the Object". Acquavella Gallery, Caracas.1978 " Quintana Castillo Workshop". National Art Gallery, Caracas.1980 "Works for the Sao Paulo Biennial". Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1983ARCO 83. Madrid, Spain.1984 "Signs, Sculptures and Emblems".Siete Siete Gallery, Caracas.1995“Heraclitus River". MUCI Gallery, Caracas."Fuera de Juego", Alejandro Otero Visual Arts Museum, Caracas.Bathing in the River", Bogota, Mexico and Washington DC.1999 "Pictorial Space", Eladio Alemán Sucre Cultural Art Centre, Valencia.2011 Master of Contemporary - National Art Museum Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.2013 Painting and Reality - La Estancia, Caracas, Venezuela. Selected Group Exhibitions 1953-1969 "Venezuelan Art Official Hall ", Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1952-1955 "Planchart Hall", Caracas.1954-1957 "D'Empaire Hall", Maracaibo.1955 XXVIII Venice Biennial, Italy.1956 III Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil.1960 Mexico Biennial, Mexico City. "Venezuelan Paintings", La Habana, Cuba. "Venezuelan Painters", México Modern Art Museum.1961 "Venezuelan Paintings 1661-1961", Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1962 XXXI Venice Biennial, Italy.1964 "Armando Reverón " Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1972 "Art in Venezuela Hall ", Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.”XXX Arturo Michelena Hall ", Ateneo of Valencia.1973 “Art in Venezuela Hall", Museum of Fine Arts. Caracas.1979 "XV Sao Paulo Biennial", Brazil.1980 "Inquiry on the lmage", National Art Gallery, Caracas.1981 "I National Visual Arts Biennial", Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1985 "Amazonia", Mendoza Hall, Caracas.1990 "Los 80, Overview of Visual Arts in Venezuela", National Art Gallery Caracas.1991 "Drawing in Venezuela: A Selection", Traveling Exhibition: Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago, Miami, Mexico City, Tegucigalpa, Bogota.1992 Ibero American Art Fair, Caracas.1960-1990, National Art Gallery Foundation. Expo-Seville, Spain.1993 "Venezuela is Like That", Casa de América, Madrid, Spain.1995 "The exceptional decade". The Venezuelan Art in the sixties, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1998 I Cumana International Biennial. Caracas Ibero American Art Fair, FIA'98, Caracas, MUCI Gallery stand.1999 II Fondene Art Biennial, Francisco Narváez Contemporary Art Museum, Porlamar, State of. Nueva Esparta. "From Reverón to Quintana Castillo", MUCI Gallery, Caracas.2009 Group Show - Galeria Medicci - Caracas, Venezuela2010 Group Show - Galeria Medicci - Caracas, Venezuela2011 Group Show - Galeria Medicci - Caracas, Venezuela2012 Group Show - Galeria Medicci - Caracas, Venezuela Selected Prizes and Distinctions1954 Honorific Mention, D'Empaire Hall, Maracaibo.1955 Henrique Otero Vizcarrondo Prize, XVI Annual Venezuelan Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas. Painting First Prize. Planchart Venezuelan Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts,Caracas.1972 Honorific Mention, XXX Arturo Michelena Hall, Ateneo of Valencia.1973 National Arts Award.1978 Arturo Michelena Prize, XXXVI Arturo Michelena Hall, Ateneo of Valencia.1981 Acquisition Prize, I National Biennial of Visual Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas.1990 First Prize, V National Drawing Biennial. FUNDARTE. Alejandro Otero Visual Arts Museum, Caracas.1999 “José Antonio Sucre" Prize, I Cumana International Biennial.

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