Montura:
Emiro Lobo
Madera de pino cruda – vidrio
Framework: Raw pine wood and glass
VENEZUELA
B.1948 –
VENEZUELA
CODE EML009 D.2007
TITLE
SIZE (cm)
DATE / #/EDITION
TECHNIQUE
UNTITLED
45x28
1982 / UNIQUE
ACRYLIC ON CARDBOARD / HAND SIGNED
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Painter, draftsman and graphic designer. At age 16 he entered the School of Fine Arts Antonio Esteban Frías and later the Experimental Art Center of the ULA, directed by Manuel Espinoza. In 1967 he exhibited his work for the first time in a group of students of the Experimental Art Center presented at the Ateneo de Caracas. This same year he obtained a scholarship from the Inciba to study graphic arts at the Academy of Munich (Germany). In 1968 he travels to Paris and, in 1969, he returns to Venezuela and joins his artistic activity with graphic design. Between 1969 and 1971 he worked in the design department of the Athenaeum of Caracas, and gave workshops on children's graphic expression in that institution. In 1969 he was part of the founding group of Cobalto magazine with Manuel Espinoza, Álvaro Sotillo and Abilio Padrón. In 1971 he joined the design department of the Inciba, diagramming the magazine Imagen for one year. Towards 1973 he took up painting, starting with an expressionist proposal, with satirical intentions and evident influence of Jacobo Borges, Manuel Espinoza and Régulo Pérez. In 1974 he travels to Buenos Aires and works at the Popular University as a professor of graphic design. In 1975 he returned to Venezuela and worked in the design team of the magazine Quadrum. The following year he was appointed coordinator of plastic arts activities for the Edo. Táchira, within the Gobernación Cultural Plan. From 1977 to 1981 he lives in Mérida; Later, he lived in Adícora (Falcón State). In 1979 he participated in the First National Salon of New Drawing in Venezuela (Fundarte) and in "Manos de Siempre, Signs of Today, Current Drawing in Venezuela" (GAN). In 1980 he exhibited 25 paintings inscribed in the new figuration but markedly gestural, made in acrylic and oil in the Viva Mexico Gallery (Caracas). Carlos Contramaestre wrote: "Lobo's work is inscribed within magical realism [...], the artist momentarily abandons the denunciatory forms of the new figuration, of frank political affiliation, to