CODE ACV006
Arturo Carrión VENEZUELA
B.1953
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ESPAÑA
TITLE
SIZE (cm)
DATE / #/EDITION
TECHNIQUE
OPUS
70x50
1992 / 3/100
SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED
The Constructive Spirit
Dr. Roberto Guevara Art critic - National Museum Director - Venezuela - March 1987
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As revealing as this ascendant, is the permanence in all major cultures of constructivist processes, as part of common life, in such media dissimilar as upholstery, architecture, ceramics and painting. The peoples of Africa give a particularly vigorous use to the abstract definition, for example in the mural decoration of the facades, in clearly coherent sequences and intended for a celebratory or exaltational purpose. Auguste Herbin (France, 1882/1960) It takes full advantage of this dynamism and, in passing, captures its vitalist sense, rather than the formalistic sense of other European experiences. The work of Venezuelan Arturo Carrión (Maturín, 1953) has been consistent in the exploration of the abstract universe in two and three dimensions, with a guiding principle that starts, according to a text from the artist, of the principle that “art is enough for itself” and has a realistic character to represent the vital synthesis that man seeks and raises as a testimony of his action on earth. We thus find an alternative position. The realism sought by the great pioneers like Naum Gabò (1890/1977) who formulates in his "realistic manifesto" the need to leave behind the "hieratic rhythms" and give art life and true movement. Carrión takes advantage of the flexibility of the structure in the works twodimensional, trying most of the time to rely on a strong, contrasting color, provoking an equally rhythmic reading. In the works deployed in space, the incorporation of color is an appropriate resource to accentuate the play of shapes and volumes; not to mention that it also takes advantage of the free, real movement of the parties. The work is a constructive program, in which the artist tries to add the chromatic and formal elements necessary to create processes that reveal a condition of exaltation, a kind of celebration of the living and the beauty of the art of creating.