César Rengifo - LOS NINOS - CR-005

César Rengifo

( César Nereo Rengifo Cadenas) VENEZUELA

B.1915

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CODE CR-005 D.1980

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DATE / #/EDITION

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38,50x54

1988 / 154/225

SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED

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César Rengifo

( César Nereo Rengifo Cadenas) VENEZUELA

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D.1980

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SIZE (cm)

DATE / #/EDITION

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38,50x54

1988 / 154/225

SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED

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Painter and dramatist. Son of Ángel María Rengifo Goita and Felicia Cadenas. When his parents passed away, he was raised by Ascensión and Mariano Rovaina and since 1923 he goes to the care of José del Carmen Toledo. In 1925, he began attending the School of Fine Arts. Always under the tutelage of José del Carmen Toledo, he moved to live in the house of Pablo Rojas, father of the poet Pablo Rojas Guardia, where he stayed until 1936. In 1928, he participated as a distributor of anti-gopherist pamphlets.

Between 1930 and 1935 he studied formally at the School of Fine Arts, specializing in drawing, painting and sculpture, in the classes of Marcos Castillo, Rafael Monasterios, Cruz Álvarez García and Antonio Esteban Frías. Rengifo participated in the group of artists who, after the death of the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez in 1935, denounce pictorial means the social imbalances.

In 1936 his artistic production was scarce due to his political commitments; along with other artists he created the Association of Students of Plastic Arts of Venezuela, later traveling to Chile, commissioned by the ME to study technique and teaching of the plastic arts and applied arts. In 1937 he left for Mexico to study mural painting at the Academy of San Carlos and the National School of Painting and Sculpture La Esmeralda in the capital of that country.

Back in Venezuela, he joined the political struggle and created the Friends of Spain and America group. In 1938 he held his first individual exhibition at the Caracas Club and his first fresco mural at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts. In 1939 he studied graphic arts at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts, later he was expelled from the country and traveled to Colombia. In 1940 he returned to Caracas and collaborated as co-founder of the newspaper Últimas Noticias and with the weekly Aquí Está. In 1941, with Pedro León Castro and Héctor Poleo, he works in a workshop located between the corners of Llaguno and Bolero. In the upper part of the study, meetings of the Center for the Study of the Present are held. For four years he works as a reporter and then

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B.1915

CODE JP-109

César Rengifo

( César Nereo Rengifo Cadenas) VENEZUELA

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D.1980

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SIZE (cm)

DATE / #/EDITION

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38,50x54

1988 / 154/225

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namely, the conquest, the precursors and the struggle. For Rengifo the plastic and theatrical activity constituted a unit, obtaining successes in both directions. In 1980 he received the National Theater Award. In his plastic and theatrical language he sometimes resorted to the same elements: man and confused landscapes. The subject of Rengifo was limited to the rural world, of desolate landscapes and wandering characters, worked with economy of means. Initially he worked still lifes of dense and pasty invoice. After traveling to Mexico, he focused his interest on social realism, reflecting the desolation of the peasant with a refined technique. His works include Éxodo campesino (1939, Ana Senior collection), Los borrachos (1948, Mamja collection) and La flor del hijo (GAN collection), which received the National Painting Prize in 1954. From his work, GAN possesses in his collection oils on canvas and on cardboard, made between 1953 and 1980.

SOME HOMAGES In 1981, a year after his death, the Ateneo de Caracas created the César Rengifo Latin American Research Prize. The César Rengifo Theater of the Historical Center of Petare, in the Sucre municipality of the Miranda State, in Venezuela.In 2007 the Mayor's Office of Caracas through the Foundation for Culture and the Arts (Fundarte) opens the call for the National Dramatic Award Cesar Rengifo. In 2011, after a profound urban redevelopment of the area, the "César Rengifo Boulevard" was inaugurated in the El Cementerio de Caracas sector. In 2016, his remains are transferred to the National Pantheon, in the city of Caracas, coinciding with the same homage to another civil hero of the Republic, the painter Armando Reverón.

SOME AWARDS 1953 Andrés Pérez Mujica Prize, XI Arturo Michelena Salon / Second Prize, VI Planchart Hall / Popular Prize, VI Planchart Room 1954 National Painting Prize, XV Official Salon / Antonio Esteban Frías Award, XV Official Salon / Arturo Michelena Award, XII Arturo Michelena Room

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as information chief and editor in the newspaper El Heraldo, and regularly collaborates in the newspaper El Nacional and in the magazine Élite. In 1945 he coincided with Pedro León Castro and Alejandro Otero in the exhibition "Venezuelan Painting" held at the National Library (Bogotá), a collective that included the participation of many young artists. "These years -which burst with vehemence and signal a significant change in the artist's work, compared to the times of the Academy and the immediate aftermaths- will be definitive in findings: the brief Impressionist brushstrokes and the accented linear auscultations proposed through Expressionism, they have become a more authentic technical treatment and a thematic tendency in whose surface the harshest and at the same time authentic features of our physical and human geography stand "(Nunes, 1982, p.90).

In January 1947, he became seriously ill due to an intestinal ulcer of tuberculous origin.

After his convalescence he restarted, in 1948, his pictorial activity. Participates with Miguel Arroyo, Miguel Otero Silva, Mateo Manaure, Pedro Leon Castro and Luis Guevara Moreno in the cycle of debates entitled "Realism in art", presented between August and September this year at the Venezuelan Soviet Cultural Institute (Caracas ). On the occasion of the controversy that took place then he published in the press several articles in defense of social realism. In 1949 he exhibited at the MBA, at the Venezuelan Soviet Cultural Institute (Caracas) and at the Ateneo de Valencia (Edo Carabobo). In mid-1954, the 90-square-meter Amalivaca mural began at the CSB and was completed at the end of the following year. The theme of the mural built with "more than a million and a half small pieces of mosaics, finely cut", is based on the myth of the brothers Amalivaca and Vochi, who channeled the overflowing waters of the Orinoco and taught hunting, fishing and pottery to the tamanacos. In 1958 he signed the constitutive act of the Society of Writers and Artists, later assumed the direction of cultural extension of the ULA. At that time, Rengifo settled in Mérida with his family. In 1959, the ME designated him coordinator of the literacy campaign of the city of Mérida, and then planner of the School of Art of the ULA and he works as a professor of art history at the School of Plastic Arts. In 1969, together with Gabriel Bracho and Pedro León Castro, he exhibited at Botto Gallery. In 1973 he was called by the Commission of the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo of the Ministry of Defense to make the mural Creator of the nationality, in the Paseo Los Próceres in Caracas. It is a triptych built in mosaics that traces three moments of our history,

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B.1915

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César Rengifo

( César Nereo Rengifo Cadenas) VENEZUELA

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D.1980

TITLE

SIZE (cm)

DATE / #/EDITION

TECHNIQUE

LOS NINOS

38,50x54

1988 / 154/225

SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED

TEN KEYS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF CÉSAR RENGIFO AND HIS WORK On May 14, 1915 was born César Rengifo, an integral artist whose pictorial and dramaturgical work became a reference for Venezuela and the world.

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6. He is the author of the Amalicava mosaic, which tells the Caribbean myth of the creation of the world and can be found in the Plaza Diego Ibarra in Caracas. He also made murals Creators of the nationality, located in the Paseo Los Próceres of the capital.

7. He was Director of Cultural Extension of the University of the Andes, in the state of Merida. During his tenure, he founded the School of Plastic Arts.

8. In the company of figures such as Humberto Orsini and Jacobo Borges, he founded the experimental Grupo de Teatro Mascaras, which carried out works of a social nature in unconventional spaces such as plazas, jails and hospitals.

9. His theatrical creation is usually divided into two periods: the Conquest, composed of the works Curayú or El victor, Oscéneba, Apacuana and Curiacán, starring indigenous characters from the position of the vanquished race. The second and most popular period is known as the "Oil Tetralogy", composed of The Butterflies of Darkness, The Yellow Gale, The Flow of the Tired Dead and The Towers and the Wind, the latter being the best achieved according to the criticism Venezuelan theater.

10. In 1981, the former Ateneo de Caracas created the Latin American Research Prize that bears his name. The César Rengifo Theater, in the Petare helmet, was also performed as a tribute.

Finally, in 2008, the Mayor of Caracas, through Fundarte, created the National Dramaturgy Award César Rengifo.

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The importance of his work in the field of theater and plastic arts can be summarized in ten keys: 1. He specialized in pedagogy of the plastic arts thanks to a scholarship in Santiago de Chile. Later he traveled to Mexico City to enroll in the San Carlos Academy, where he delved into the techniques of muralism.

2. Thanks to this stay, the pictorial work of Rengifo follows the realistic trend and is directly influenced by other Mexican exponents, such as Diego Rivera.

3. His work portrays the life of the working class. His motto "I come from the people and I am bound to him by knowledge and feeling" synthesizes not only the theme of his plastic work, but also his vast work as a dramatist. Oil, oppression and the proletariat were themes that inspired the totality of his artistic work.

4. Upon returning to Venezuela, he studied graphic arts at the School of Plastic Arts and Applied Arts of Caracas. In 1939 he had his first solo exhibition, and it was in that same year when he ventured into dramaturgy.

5. In 1945 his work represented the country in the exhibition of Young Venezuelan Painting in Bogotá, in the company of Alejandro Otero and Pedro León. In 1954 he won the National Award at the XV Annual Official Salon of Venezuelan Art for his work La flor del hijo, and also the Arturo Michelena Prize at the Arturo Michelena Hall.

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B.1915

CODE JP-109