Montura: Madera natural laqueada en blanco con vidrio Framework: White lacquered natural wood with glass
Mateo Manaure
VENEZUELA
B.1926
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CODE MMD021 D.2018
TITLE
UNTITLED
DATE / #/EDITION
1971 / P.A. N/N
SIZE (cm)
105x105
TECHNIQUE
SERIGRAPHY / HAND SIGNED
Mateo Manaure was one of the most respected Venezuelan artists for his invaluable contribution to contemporary art In 2009 the Mateo Manaure Contemporary Art Museum was inaugurated in Maturín, Monagas State|
Among other exhibitions, he participated in the biennials of São Paulo and Venice and exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and at UNESCO. Currently, two works by the Venezuelan muralist can be found in the MoMA catalog in New York: Polychrome Columns, Project for a mural (1954) and the other is an untitled piece from the 19681969 period. “EL NEGRO ES UN COLOR” (BLACK IS A COLOUR) (1954), REINA SOFÍA NATIONAL MUSEUM, SPAIN
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From 1941 to 1946 he studied at the School of Plastic Arts and Applied Arts, current School of Visual Arts Cristóbal Rojas when it was directed by Antonio Edmundo Monsanto. There, he studied graphic arts in the workshop of Pedro Ángel González, of whom he was an assistant. Already by those times begins to participate in the Arturo Michelena Hall and the Official Venezuelan Art Salon of the Fine Arts Museum of Caracas. In 1947 he won the first edition of the National Prize for Plastic Arts, played with Pascual Navarro and traveled to Paris, France. He returns the following year to Caracas where he participates in the organization of the Free Art Workshop. On his return to Paris in 1950, he participated in the Los Disidentes group, along with artists such as Alejandro Otero, Pascual Navarro, Carlos González Bogen, Perán Erminy, Rubén Nuñez, Narciso Debourg, Dora Hersen, Aimeé Batistini and J.R. Guillent Pérez. On his return to Caracas, he founded the Cuatro Muros Gallery in 1952, together with Carlos González Bogen, and they hold the First Exhibition of Abstract Art in the country. He also began his collaboration with the University City project of Carlos Raúl Villanueva, where, in addition to contributing 26 of his own works, he emerges as supervisor of the works of art. From there, he participates in other public projects, such as the polychromies of the Urbanización 23 de Enero. For several years now, Manaure was developing in abstract art, which formed the Venezuelan artistic vanguard of that time. Then, he returns to representative art from the graphic arts, especially lithography, but he does not abandon abstract expression. In 1984 he was named President of the Venezuelan Association of Plastic Artists. In 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Mateo Manaure, was inaugurated in Maturín, Monagas State. The work of Mateo Manaure has gone through different stages. The first one, of representative tendency with classic subjects like the nude, the landscape and the still life, with a gestural character. Then, when going to Paris, his work evolves towards geometric abstraction and then becomes lyrical abstraction. In this way, Mateo Manaure worked alternately representation and abstraction. Among the series made by him we find Sobremontaje Paintings, The Soils of my Earth, Cuvisiones, Polychrome Columns, Look to America, Orinoquia, Offering to my race, among others. On the emblematic Libertador Avenue in Caracas, the large mural Uracoa (2012) 5 is displayed, which is a horizontal reproduction of two of the works of the same artist that covers the emergency staircase of the Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) building located in the city. capital. The mural Uracoa has been framed in the Vibra Caracas project, together with the Chromatic Modules of Juvenal Ravelo on Libertador Avenue. Both works are part of the series of urban art interventions developed in the Plaza Venezuela and the boulevard of Sabana Grande.